We investigated the reproducibility of a semiautomated method (computerized with manual intervention) for nerve morphometry (counting and measuring myelinated fibers) between three observers with different levels of expertise and experience with the method. Comparisons between automatic (fully computerized) and semiautomated morphometric methods performed by the same computer software using the...

Introduction: Voxel based morphometry is a type of statistical parametric mapping that can be used to investigate the effect of diseases such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease or other agent such as skills on brain structure (white matter, gray matter and cerebrospinal fluid). The aim of this study is evaluate the effectiveness of this method in detection of differen...

hottentotta is one of the most widely distributed genera of the family buthidae, with species present throughout africa, the arabian peninsula, and in asia to pakistan and india. recently, kovarik (2007) revised genus of hottentotta in the world and reported 29 different species-group name in the genus of hottentotta. hottentotta is one of the six medical important scorpions of iran that distri...

Animals that are well-managed thrive and produce better than those kept under conditions which do not take full consideration of their behavioural welfare needs. This experiment was conducted with one hundred eighty unsexed day-old Marshall Arbor Acre breeds broiler chickens to investigate the effects housing systems on assessment, bone morphometry faecal egg counts. The birds were brooded for ...

In order to evaluate the effect of diets with Ganoderma lucidum mushroom powder and zinc-bacitracin on growth performance, carcass traits, lymphoid organ weights, intestinal characteristics in broilers, a total 600 one-day-old unsexed broilers from Cobb 500 MV × FF genotype was analyzed for 28 days, following completely randomized design three dietary treatments, five replicates 40 birds per re...

Mast cells (MC) are source of many biological active compounds like cytokines, arachidonic acid derivates, proteoglicanes, prostaglandins, proteases, free oxygen radials, NGF, PAF and many more. The role of MC in pathogenesis of Hirschsprung's disease (HD) is not clear. Substances produced by MC may exert an important effect on embryology, growth, differentiation and regeneration of intestinal ...

Creatine is widely used by athletes as an ergogenic resource. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of creatine supplementation on the duodenum of rats submitted to physical training. The number and myenteric neuronal cell bodies as well mucosal and muscular tunic morphometry were evaluated. Control animals received a standard chow for 8 weeks, and the treated ones received the st...

An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of different pre-starter diets on the performance, digestive organs and carcass characteristics of broilers. One hundred and fifty day-old broiler chicks were divided into five groups with three replicates having ten chicks each. During first ten days the birds were fed on five experimental pre-starter diets formulated with different metaboliza...