an experiment was conducted to determine the effect of different inclusion rates and degree of saturation of fat sources on true metabolizable energy corrected to zero nitrogen retention ( tmen) values in broiler chickens at 42 days of age. animal fat and cotton seed oil were blended in the proportions of: 0.25:0.75 , 0.50:0.50 , 0.75:0.25. the three blends together with the animal fat and cott...

The authors retrospectively evaluated maternal and fetal outcomes of 73 consecutive singleton pregnancies complicated by preterm premature rupture of amniotic membranes. When preterm labor occurred and fetuses were at a viable gestational age, pregnant patients were managed aggressively with tocolytic therapy, antenatal corticosteroid injections, and antenatal fetal testing. The mean gestationa...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of male broiler chickens in the period from 21 to 42 days of age fed diets with increasing levels of sunflower meal (sm) supplemented with an enzyme complex (ec). a total of 1920 animals of the cobb strain were distributed in a randomized block design in a 4 × 3 factorial arrangement (four sm levels and three enzymes utilization types)...

background: searching for factors that reduce the adverse effect of heat stress (hs) on broiler performance has particular importance. objectives: the present study was designed to investigate the influence of dietary melatonin, gamma-amino butyric acid (gaba) and dark period on growth performance, carcass characteristics and blood parameters of broiler under heat stress condition. methods: a t...

from 1996 to 2002, fifty three patients with major beta-thalassemia received allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell trans plantation (pbsct). median age was 6 years .twenty two were class i, 17 class ii and 14 class iii. all of the donors were hla-identical. conditioning regimen for class i and ii patients consisted of cyclophosphamide (cy) 50 mg/kg/day for 4 days + busulfan (bu) 3.5 mg/kg for 4...

Premature infants respond to hypercapnia by an attenuated ventilatory response that is characterized by a decrease in respiratory frequency. We hypothesized that this impaired hypercapnic ventilatory response is of central origin and is mediated via gamma-aminobutyric acid-ergic (GABAergic) pathways. We therefore studied two groups of maturing Sprague-Dawley rats: unrestrained rats in a whole b...