When the usual relations that exist between organ weight and body weight are altered by the removal of part of an organ, a complete or partial restoration occurs in certain organs but not in others. In mammals the removal of a limb, an eye, or part of the brain is followed by no restoration. When one Cowper's gland is removed the remaining gland grows no larger (1) and, as we shall show in this...

Caprylic acid (CA) and Yucca schidigera (YS) extract have many functional and nutritional properties that may have applications in animal nutrition. These beneficial effects include improvement of growth performance, immunity and anti-microbial activity. This study was conducted to assess the effects of dietary supplementation with CA and YS extract on growth performance, relative organ weight,...

BACKGROUND Infancy is the most common period for childhood death, including both neonatal deaths from obstetric or medical complications and sudden unexpected infant deaths. The weighing of organs at autopsy is an established process and is recommended in current protocols. However, minimal contemporary data is available regarding reference ranges for organ weights of infants. METHODS Organ w...

in order to evaluate the effects of ascites on blood gas parameters and internal organ weights, 335 broilers related to parental lines was studied. one hundred sixty-one male broilers and one hundred seventy-four females selected randomly and studied under two treatments of control and ascites. at 54 days of age, body weight and body weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion rate between the...

a bstract background: in recent years, the lack of organ for transplantation has resulted in health planners and authorities in all countries, including iran, paying serious attention to the issue. despite the above-mentioned fact, families with a member affected by brain death are not interested in organ donation. objective: this study is aimed at making an investigation into the decision-maki...

Physalis species show a significant variation in berry size; however, the underlying molecular basis is unknown. In this work, we showed that cell division difference in the ovaries might contribute to the ultimate berry size variation within Physalis species, and that mRNA abundance of Physalis floridana Cell Number Regulator1 (PfCNR1), the putative orthologue of the tomato fruit weight 2.2 (F...

Data from bycaught, but otherwise presumed healthy individuals can contribute important biological data on species of cetaceans that are lacking. This study utilises collected systematic necropsies performed between October 1970 and May 2010 142 Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis), 607 bottlenose (Tursiops aduncus), 640 long-beaked common (Delphinus capensis) incidentally caught dr...