An amino acid deletion assay, a protein efficiency ratio (PER) assay, and a slope-ratio growth assay were used to establish the limiting order of AA, and to determine the effects of microbial phytase on protein utilization in corn gluten meal (CGM) fed to chicks during the period of 8 to 21 d posthatching. In Assay 1, a 12% CP CGM diet was fortified with AA to fulfill the digestible AA ideal pr...

A feeding trial with twenty-seven male weaned Zandi lambs (initial body weight 27.1±0.38 kg) was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of Saccharomyces cerevisiae SC47 in diet containing high concentrate (85%) on the growth performance, blood parameters and immune system status. Lambs were allocated to one of three treatment diets in a completely randomized design with 3 replicat...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of different levels of echinacea (echinacea purpurea) methanol extract on the growth performances (final weight (fw), daily growth ratio (dgr), feed conversion rate (fcr), voluntary feed intake (vfi) and protein efficiency ratio (per) and some of hematological parameters (hemoglobin (hb), hematocrit (hct), red blood cell (rbc) and white blo...

Cancer therapy with oncolytic measles virus (MV) requires high titers of pure, infectious particles (~108 times more per dose than the vaccine). A gentle but efficient downstream purification process is therefore essential. Here we investigated suitability ion-exchange chromatography for MV using resin-based stationary phases. The success was evaluated based on yield, ratio to total particles, ...

The majority of plant proteins used in aquatic feeds are derived from seed meals, which may contain antinutritional factors. Protein concentrates foliage have received less attention fish feeding trials. Alfalfa protein concentrate (APC) is fresh alfalfa that contains approximately 52% and low fiber. A trial was done to assess growth feed efficiency responses yellow perch (Perca flavescens) fed...

1 One of the main drawbacks of the conventional reseeding architecture is the limited seed efficiency due to the variance in the number of specified bits per vector. This paper proposes a new LFSR reseeding architecture that essentially solves this problem, resulting in a significant compression ratio. The compression ratio is very close to the entropy in terms of #total bits / #specified bits....

The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that cycling efficiency in vivo is related to mitochondrial efficiency measured in vitro and to investigate the effect of training status on these parameters. Nine endurance trained and nine untrained male subjects (V(O2peak) = 60.4 +/- 1.4 and 37.0 +/- 2.0 ml kg(-1) min(-1), respectively) completed an incremental submaximal efficiency...

The effects of dietary supplementation of garlic (Allium sativum) extract on the growth and disease resistance of African catfish, Clarias gariepinus was evaluated. Also in-vitro evaluation of susceptibility of fish-borne multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria to aqueous extract of garlic was done. Aqueous garlic extract exhibited inhibitory activity against MDR bacteria and the degree o...