the objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of different doses of some 7 natural semi-arid medicinal plants’ essential oils on in vitro ruminal digestion and fermentation patterns of a mid-forage (alfalfa hay: concentrates, 1:1) diet. treatments consisted of either basal diet alone (control) or added with 35, 70, 140 or 280 µl l-1 of coriander, oregano, caraway, cumin, cinn...

background & aim:  non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) are commonly used in clinical medicine. the adverse effects they produce in the gastrointestinal tract however, often limit their utility. oxidative stress has been shown to occur in the small intestine in response to the oral administration of indomethacin. in view of this, the effect of thyme essential oil, an agent with an...

Plant essential oils (EOs) have been reported to have health benefit properties and their preventive and therapeutic use in animals is expected to increase in the future. We evaluated the influence of five essential oils obtained from plant species which are known to have positive antimicrobial, antioxidative and anti-inflammatory effects--sage EO from Salvia officinalis L. (Lamiaceae), oregano...

Background: Gastronomic natural flavors and spices have been used as both flavoring agents preservatives in food preparation for many years. They also utilized medical field their biological properties shown previous studies. Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the inhibitory effect of oil extracts from Cloves, Thyme, Cinnamon compared with ampicillin on some oral bacteria (Staphylococcus au...

Annotating the semantics of time in language is important. THYME (Styler et al., 2014) is a recent temporal annotation standard for clinical texts. This paper examines temporal expressions in the first major corpus released under this standard. It investigates where the standard has proven difficult to apply, and gives a series of recommendations regarding temporal annotation in this important ...

Background: Rhinitis, which occurs most commonly as allergic rhinitis and affects 20% of the world’s population, is a major health care burden causing significant morbidity. Considering the high prevalence of allergic rhinitis and anti-inflammatory effects of thyme, a favorite condiment, we performed a randomized clinical trial to determine whether thyme can relieve allergic rhinitis symp...

A research study was conducted to evaluate the effects of three herbal extracts and an antibiotic –virginiamycinon growth performance, immune system, blood factors and selected intestinal bacterial populations in broiler chickens. A total of four hundred and eighty 1-day old male broiler chicks were assigned to the basal diet (control) , basal diet supplemented with 15 ppm of virginiamycin, bas...

The Effects of Probiotic and Thyme Powder on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits Blood Biochemical Parameters Broilers with Normal Crude Protein Reduced Diets

the antifungal potential of essential oils of thyme (thymus vulgaris l.), rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis l.), and laurel (laurus nobilis l.) was determined. to establish this antifungal potential, two molds related to feed spoilage, namely, aspergillus flavus and aspergillus parasiticus, were selected. the agar dilution method was employed for the determination of antifungal activities. the i...

Bees are the most important pollinators of agricultural plants. The decline bee colonies is caused by a multitude factors which diseases, pesticides, and climate change seem to be important. Losses can huge when several act together. In recent years, there has been growing interest in use alternative sources such as medicinal plants form extracts or essential oils. purpose our research was eval...