Volume 6, Issue 2 (2011) | American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences

No Damage of Dietary Dried Fermented Ginger Diet without Antibiotics on Growth Performance in Broilers Reared in Tropical Area

Duddoa Khonyoung — 2011-08-06

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 6 August 2011; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2011.65.68

Problem statement: The experiment was carried out to determine whether the dietary Dried Fermented Ginger (DFG) has no affecting damage on broiler growth performance and can also be applicable in trop...

Clinical Signs of Hairballs in Cats Fed a Diet Enriched with Cellulose

A. C. Beynen — 2011-08-08

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 8 August 2011; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2011.69.72

Problem statement: The intake of cellulose may delay gastric emptying and raise the intestinal transit rate. These effects could antagonize hairball formation. Thus, it was hypothesized that a diet en...

Effect of Nifedipine on Dichlorvos-Induced Seizure in Mice

Khayatnouri Mirhadi — 2011-09-17

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 17 September 2011; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2011.73.76

Problem statement: Dichlorvos a synthetic organophosphate poisons is the property of insecticide. These toxins as insecticides in agriculture and medicine for animals and the destruction of ectoparasi...

Effect of Triclabendazole and Levamisole on Experimental Hydatic Cyst in Rat

Garedaghi Yagoob — 2011-08-08

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 8 August 2011; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2011.77.79

Problem statement: Hydatidosis has dispersed worldly and is one of the common dangerous diseases between human and animals and is found abundantly in areas that human, dogs and herbivorous are in clos...

Detection of Polymorphism at the Insulin Like Growth Factor-I Gene in Mazandaran Native Chicken using Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Method

Hossein Ali Abbasi — 2011-08-08

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 8 August 2011; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2011.80.83

Problem statement: Molecular genetics selection on individual genes is a promising method to genetically improve economically important traits in chickens. The Insulin like Growth Factor-I (IGF1) gene...

Genetic Polymorphism Exon 9-11 at the Leptin Gene Receptor in Breeder Hens of Mazandaran Native Fowls

Hossein Ali Abbasi — 2011-09-17

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 17 September 2011; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2011.84.87

Problem statement: Leptin a 16 kD protein synthesized by white adipose tissue and involved in regulation of feed intake, energy balance, fertility and immune function. In order to evaluate the leptin ...

Effect of Gestation and Maternal Copper on the Fetal Fluids and Tissues Copper Concentrations in Sheep

Abd Elghany Hefnawy — 2011-09-20

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 20 September 2011; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2011.88.92

Problem statement: Samples of allantoic, amniotic fluid, fetal liver, kidney, maternal plasma and liver were collected from 30 ewes and classified into either early or late gestation and copper concen...