• It has been reported that MER-29, 1[(4-diethylaminoethoxy) phenylj-l-(p-tolyl)2-(p-chlorophenyl) ethauol, significantly lowers both serum and tissue cholesterol in rats and humans." Further investigation has demonstrated that drug-inhibited cholesterol synthesis in the body was due primarily to a block in a late stage of cholesterol synthesis. The present study was undertaken to study the eff...

• Atherosclerosis, the lipid-containing intimal lesion with marked fibrosis and calcification, morphologically similar to the human lesion, has been produced consistently in numerous animal species, mostly by feeding diets high in cholesterol and fat, with and without hormonal or other dietary manipulations. However, ulceration and thrombosis, the so-called "complicated" lesions so frequent in ...

Growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of male chickens were evaluated using eight-week-old 360 cockerels from three exotic (Koekoek, Kuroiler Sasso-R) one Ethiopian indigenous (Horro) genotypes. Cockerels in each breed (90) randomly allocated into replications 30 birds housed deep litter pens for the experiment that lasted 8 to 16 weeks. The was arranged a Completely Rand...

this study was designed to examine the effects of intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of ketanserin(5-ht2a receptor antagonist) and sb242084 (5-ht2c receptor antagonist) on harmaline induced feeding anddrinking response in 24-h food-deprived (fd24) broiler cockerels. at first, guide cannula was surgicallyimplanted in the right lateral ventricle of chickens. in experiment 1, birds were injec...