Eighteen weanling horses were assigned to two treatments: limited or ad libitum feed intake. Growth and feed utilization were evaluated over a 78-wk period. Ad libitum-fed horses gained 24% more (P less than .05) weight than limit-fed horses. Total BW was distributed into 57% fore and 43% hind weight and did not differ between groups regardless of dietary treatment or age. Net gain and ADG in w...

Rats having a protein-free diet available ad libitum were fed a daily casein meal at the beginning of either the light- or the dark-phase of the day. A control group received a mixed-diet ad libitum. In all three groups, daily food ingestion was the same and casein corresponded to 12% of total intake. Liver activities of alanine, aspartate, ornithine and tyrosine aminotransferase, ornithine dec...

objective: multiple sclerosis (ms) is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (cns). stem cell transplantation is a new therapeutic approach for demyelinating diseases such as ms which may promote remyelination. in this study, we evaluate the remyelinating potential of adipose mesenchymal stem cells (adscs) and their effect on neural cell composition in the corpus...

Lines of mice have been developed in our laboratory by divergent long-term selection for body fat content. This has resulted in a fivefold (23% vs 4%) higher fat percentage in the Fat line at 14 weeks of age, with little difference between the Fat and Lean lines in fat-free body weight. As part of an approach to characterize the physiological mechanisms underlying these different phenotypes, ne...

Abstract Animals deliver an important ecosystem service by dispersing plant seeds. Seed dispersers have different effects on the germination success of This study aimed at examining effect seed processing patas monkey ( Erythrocebus ) and two flying foxes Micropteropus pusillus Epomophorus gambianus African ebony Diospyros mespiliformis ). Flying monkeys were kept in cages fed ad libitum with f...

Two experiments, each with 36 barrows with high-lean-gain potential, were conducted to evaluate apparent nutrient digestibilities and performance and plasma metabolites of pigs fed corn-soybean meal diets (CONTROL) and low-protein diets. The low-protein diets were supplemented with crystalline lysine, threonine, tryptophan, and methionine either on an ideal protein basis (IDEAL) or in a pattern...

There is evidence that ethanol inhibits osteoblast function and that chronic ethanol consumption induces systemic bone loss and increases the risk of fracture in humans. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether chronic ethanol consumption also compromises the healing of injured bone. Male Sprague-Dawley rats, 8-10 weeks old, were placed into four feeding groups: group A receive...

Critical period for intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR), and biochemical parameters for tissue growth were studied in an animal model of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in rats. Our research used 40 animals, fed Lieber and DeCarli liquid diets, distributed into 4 groups: C, or control--non-alcoholic--, ad libitum; E, or alcoholic, fed ad libitum; F, or alcoholic, pair fed to E; and P, non-alco...

increase in feed intake of broiler breeder hens, results to incidence of metabolic and hormonal changes and finally leads to poor reproductive performance. an experiment was conducted to evaluate responses of feed-satiated and feed-restricted laying breeder hens to daily injection of an acute dose of progesterone (p4). a total of 64 cobb 500 hens were fed either restricted or ad libitum from 27...

insulin resistance syndrome, also referred to as the metabolic syndrome or syndrome x, refers to a constellation of common metabolic and cardiovascular disorders (e.g. obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and dyslipidemia), which are all cardiovascular risk factors. insulin resistance can be induced by fructose-rich diet in rats. we investigated the effect of vanadyl sulfate (0.2 mg...