alpha-Actinin purified from chicken gizzard smooth muscle was characterized in comparison with alpha-actinins from chicken striated muscles, or fast-skeletal muscle, slow-skeletal muscle, and cardiac muscle. The gizzard alpha-actinin molecule consisted of two apparently identical subunits with a molecular weight of 100,000 on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, as do striated-muscle alpha-a...

Two independent trials were carried out to evaluate the effect of feed form, whole wheat (WW) and oat hulls (OH) addition on gastrointestinal (GIT) weight and Campylobacter jejuni colonization in orally infected birds. In Trial 1, there were six treatments factorially arranged with two feed forms (mash vs pellets), and three levels of WW from 1-21/22-42d: 0/0, 7.5/15%, 15/30%. Broilers were all...

Myosin light chain kinase purified from chicken white skeletal muscle (Mr = 150,000) was significantly larger than both rabbit skeletal (Mr = 87,000) and chicken gizzard smooth (Mr = 130,000) muscle myosin light chain kinases, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Km and Vmax values with rabbit or chicken skeletal, bovine cardiac, and chicken gizzard smooth...

This study aimed to determine the best percentage of A. microphylla flour on carcass weight, abdominal fat percentage, gizzard weight and intestine length broiler. research was conducted in March--April 2021 at PT. Sinar Ternak Sejahtera farm 5 Wonodadi Village, South Lampung Regency, Province. Carcass processing carried out Livestock Production Laboratory Department Animal Husbandry, Faculty A...

—Competition with gizzard shad Dorosoma cepedianum has been shown to influence survival of larval bluegills Lepomis macrochirus as well as growth and size structure of largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides, which prey on these planktivorous species. However, little is known about how the presence of gizzard shad influences bluegills beyond the larval stage. We examined bluegill–gizzard shad int...

This research was carried out to define the morphological features of Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) induck and to investigate whether the MD resides in a constant position along the intestinal tract. For thispurpose, a total of 30 adult healthy ducks of both sexes, 50-52 weeks of age were used. After dissecting,some morphological factors such as: total intestine length as well as the lengths of th...

The study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary zinc addition (0 or 15 mg/kg of Zn as inorganic or organic zinc) to three maize-soybean meal basal diets varying in their native Zn, phytic P contents and phytase activity (expressed in kg of feed: P- with 25 mg Zn and 1.3 g phytic P, P+ with 38 mg Zn and 2.3 g phytic P or P+/ENZ being P+ including 500 units (FTU) of microbial phytase p...

Animals can be important in nutrient cycling in particular ecosystems, but few studies have examined how this importance varies along environmental gradients. In this study we quantified the nutrient cycling role of an abundant detritivorous fish species, the gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), in reservoir ecosystems along a gradient of ecosystem productivity. Gizzard shad feed mostly on sedim...

this research was carried out to define the morphological features of meckel’s diverticulum (md) induck and to investigate whether the md resides in a constant position along the intestinal tract. for thispurpose, a total of 30 adult healthy ducks of both sexes, 50-52 weeks of age were used. after dissecting,some morphological factors such as: total intestine length as well as the lengths of th...

The present study was performed for investigation on possible effects of exogenous ghrelin (GH-releasing peptide) on liver, heart, gizzard (proventriculus+gizzard), intestine and breast muscle weights. One hundred fertilized eggs were divided into two groups includes control or group1 (without any in ovo ghrelin administration) and group2 (in ovo administration of 100ng/egg ghrelin at day-5). I...