background: sheep are a form of investment and a quickly liquidatable resource, particularly in traditional and low income production systems. tropical and long warm-season regions always affect sheep production negatively. methods: in this experiment 15 female and 7 male sheep were chosen and their body temperature, heart rate, respiration rate measurements and blood sample for biochemical par...

background: both azadirachtin and rotenone, two botanical pesticides have shown inhibit the growth of cultured insect cells. the inhibitory effect of rotenone on cell growth is through disruption of electron transport chain, but exact mechanism of effect of azadirachtin on growth of cell is unknown. this study was carried out to compare the effect of these phytochemical on oxygen consumption by...

the effects of a nano-emulsion chitosan-based coating on enhancing the shelf-life and quality of golab kohanz apples were studied. the nano-emulsion coating containing chitosan with a concentration of 2000 ppm was applied for coating of golab kohanz apples. coated and uncoated apples were packed in normal packaging cardboards and kept at 2 ± 1 °c with a relative humidity within 80-85%. flesh fi...