This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of fasting period with or without enzyme supplementation on body weight, body weight gain, feed intake, and feed conversion ratio; carcass traits and blood parameters of broilers. One hundred sixty eight, one day old, Cobb broiler chicks were randomly distributed into eight treatments. Each treatment included three replicates each with 7 birds. Bi...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based treatment for hypercholesterolaemia in Japan has been hindered by the lack of direct evidence in this population. Our aim was to assess whether evidence for treatment with statins derived from western populations can be extrapolated to the Japanese population. METHODS In this prospective, randomised, open-labelled, blinded study, patients with hypercholesterolaemia (...

The requirement for dietary histidine was investigated in four normal and three chronically uremic men. Subjects lived in a metabolic unit where they were fed three isonitrogenous diets in the following order: a 40-g protein diet (28 plus or minus SD 8 days), a semi-synthetic amino acid diet deficient in histidine (35 plus or minus 2 days), and an amino acid diet which contained histidine (31 p...

BACKGROUND Diet and exercise are often prescribed as primary intervention regarding obesity-related disorders. Additionally, recent studies have shown beneficial effects of weight loss through diet and exercise in ghrelin concentrations in obese subjects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a 5% weight loss on lipid profile, resting metabolic rate (RMR), and acylated ghrelin (A...

Research has shown that newly hatched birds may be deficient in key digestive enzymes and that the immaturity of the digestive system may result in poor utilization of dietary nutrients. It has also been demonstrated that nutrient digestion rather than the ability to absorb nutrients seems to be the primary limiting factor. Therefore, dietary supplementation of enzymes not produced in sufficien...

a 2 × 3 factorial experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of enzyme endofeed w (eew) at 0 and 0.05%, thyme essential oil (teo), probiotic primalac® (pp) and non-feed additive, on intestinal histomorphology of broilers fed wheat-based diet. each of the 6 dietary treatments was replicated 4 times with 12 chicks each from 0 to 42 days of age. there was no interaction between enzyme and ...

Treatment of purified sodium and potassium ion-activated adenosine triphosphatase from sheep kidney with N-ethylmaleimide in the presence of KC1 and ATP reduced hydrolytic activity by 83% while steady state phosphorylation was inhibited only 24%. At 3O”C, in the presence of magnesium plus inorganic phosphate, the ouabain-binding capacity of the N-ethylmaleimidetreated enzyme was only 15% less t...

Introduction: Klotho is a protein associated with protection from aging-related diseases and health conditions. Obesity lower concentrations. Thus, this secondary analysis of adults obesity examined 1) the change in serum concentration response to behavioral weight loss intervention by magnitude achieved; 2) association among weight, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness. Methods: Partici...