effect of intermittent mash-pellet feeding programs on broilers performance, ascites susceptibility and economic yield was studied using 480 broilers in six treatments and five replicates of 16 chicks per pen were used in a completely randomized design. treatments including: 1. mash feed, 2. heated-mash feed, 3. mash feed in starter and grower and pellet feed in finisher, 4. mash feed in starte...

Introduction and Aim: Solanum pubescens is one of the very well-known traditional medicinal plants it has been widely used in treatment many inflammatory conditions. This study aimed to evaluate anti-inflammatory property S. fruit. Materials Methods: Anti-inflammatory activities fruit extracts at different concentrations (100-200 mg/kg) were carried out using carrageenan-induced cotton implant-...

The penicillin binding protein 2a (PBP2a) latex agglutination test using a blood culture pellet was compared to the oxacillin screen agar method using isolated colonies. For blood cultures positive for Staphylococcus aureus (n = 70), the direct PBP2a test was 18% sensitive and 100% specific. The PBP2a test shows poor sensitivity when used directly with positive blood cultures.

The southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula L., may disperse from alternate host plants, especially corn,ZeamaysL., andpeanuts,Arachis hypogaeaL., into cotton,Gossypiumhirsutum L. Trap crops may be useful to intercept dispersing stink bugs. Therefore, the ability of sorghum, Sorghum bicolor L. Moench, to trap N. viridula adults in cotton was studied for 3 yr. The 2002 experimentwas designed t...

A cobalt spot test was recently developed (1). Testing for cobalt release is performed by dipping a white cotton stick into a clear yellow cobalt test solution containing nitroso R salt, followed by rubbing of the cotton stick for 20–30 seconds against the test item. A colour change from yellow to red–orange indicates a positive test reaction. The spot test detects approximately 8 ppm cobalt in...

BACKGROUND Although various acceptable and easy-to-use devices have been used for saliva collection, cotton swabs are among the most common ones. Previous studies reported that cotton swabs yield a lower level of melatonin detection. However, this statistical method is not adequate for detecting an agreement between cotton saliva collection and passive saliva collection, and a test for bias is ...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of Verticillium dahliae Kleb. on cotton yield and fiber technological properties, relationships among to disease and seed cotton yield, fiber yield and fiber technological properties and also determine susceptible and tolerant cotton varieties. The study was conducted in the Southeastern Anatolia Agricultural Research Institute’s exper...