This study was conducted to compare the bio-efficacy of herbal methionine (H-Met) relative to DL-methionine (DL-Met) on 160 “Ross 308” broiler chickens. DL-Met and H-Met were added to the basal diet in eight experimental treatments with three and four concentrations respectively in starter, grower and finisher period. Blood parameters which were measured at 24 and 42 days of age consisted of: s...

Coconut cake is an abundant and good potential edible protein source. However, until now it has not been extensively used in the food industry. To promote its usage, the characterization, nutrition value and antioxidant activity of coconut cake protein fractions (albumin, globulin, prolamine, glutelin-1 and glutelin-2) were studied. Results revealed that all the albumin, globulin, glutelin-1 an...

Moore and Van Slyke (1) find the specific gravity of plasma to be a more useful measure of total plasma protein in nephritis than the refractive index, the physical property previously most widely employed in this connection. The effects of varying salt, glucose, and non-protein nitrogen contents presumably prevent accurate protein determinations by the specific gravity method, but are not suff...

the 60 apparently common carp, cyprinus carpio (mean weight 700g.) divided to two groups (1:control and 2: test) and transferred to 1000 liter indoor fiberglass tanks supplied with static well water, continuous aeration and defined water quality. test group was exposed to 30ppb (low concentration) cadmium as cdcl 2 (merck) control group was without cadmium addition . blood samples were caught r...

The electrophoretic patterns of a series of normal and pathological human sera and plasmas have been obtained using the schlieren scanning method. From these patterns the mobilities and concentrations of the electrophoretically distinct protein components have been computed. The mobilities fall into five well defined groups corresponding to albumin, alpha, beta, and gamma globulins, and fibrino...

Employing fluorescent antibodies for the detection of homologous plasma proteins in tissue sections, the distribution of plasma albumin, gamma-globulin, beta-lipoprotein, beta(1)-metal-combining globulin, and fibrinogen has been studied in the tissues of infants and children. Plasma albumin, gamma-globulin, and beta(1)-metal-combining globulin were found in many cells and particularly cell nucl...

Equal weights of the various protein fractions in plasma affect the plasma specific gravity equally, whereas weight for weight the fractions exert differing influences on the plasma viscosity. Thus fibrinogen has a greater effect on the plasma viscosity than does globulin, which, in turn, has a greater effect than albumin (Bircher, 1921 ; Naegeli, 1931; Oberst, 1939; Cowan and Harkness, 1947). ...

We have studied the serum electrophoretic patterns in 25 patients with sarcoidosis. The electrophoretic serum analysis was made by the method of MacDonald et al,1 normal values in paper electrophoresis are presented in Table I. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis was established in each case by clinical and laboratory studies, the biopsy showing the usual microscopic picture of non-casting epitheloid ...

A rapid method for nearly quantitative isolation of human serum albumin is described. The present technic (1) is a modification of the Schwert method (2). In the present method 4 ml. of serum is precipitated with trichloroacetic acid in a final concentration of 5% (w/v). The precipitate is washed with TCA, and after aqueous suspension, ethanol is added to a final concentration of 80%. The undis...