A survey on hydatidosis in livestock in Northern Iran based on data collected from slaughterhouses from 2004 to 2008     

Mansoorlakooraj H  Saadati D  Javadi R  Heydari S  Torki E  Gholami H  Fard RM 《Veterinary parasitology》2011,182(2-4):364-367

Data have been collected from slaughterhouses in three provinces across the Northern Iran (Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan) from March 2004 to March 2008. These data were collected to evaluate the prevalence of hydatidosis in slaughtered cattle, sheep and goats. During the study, 3,347,797 animals were slaughtered. These included 621,686 cattle, 1,719,725 sheep and 1,006,386 goats. The prevalence of infection in cattle, sheep and goats was 12%, 14.6% and 10.1%, respectively. The association of condemnation rates with seasons was not proven statistically.  相似文献   

Effect of organic-phase solvents on physicochemical properties and cellular uptake of astaxanthin nanodispersions     

Anarjan N  Tan CP  Ling TC  Lye KL  Malmiri HJ  Nehdi IA  Cheah YK  Mirhosseini H  Baharin BS 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2011,59(16):8733-8741

A simplex centroid mixture design was used to study the interactions between two chosen solvents, dichloromethane (DCM) and acetone (ACT), as organic-phase components in the formation and physicochemical characterization and cellular uptake of astaxanthin nanodispersions produced using precipitation and condensation processes. Full cubic or quadratic regression models with acceptable determination coefficients were obtained for all of the studied responses. Multiple-response optimization predicted that the organic phase with 38% (w/w) DCM and 62% (w/w) ACT yielded astaxanthin nanodispersions with the minimum particle size (106 nm), polydispersity index (0.191), and total astaxanthin loss (12.7%, w/w) and the maximum cellular uptake (2981 fmol/cell). Astaxanthin cellular uptake from the produced nanodispersions also showed a good correlation with their particle size distributions and astaxanthin trans/cis isomerization ratios. The absence of significant (p > 0.05) differences between the experimental and predicted values of the response variables confirmed the adequacy of the fitted models.  相似文献   

Improved model for studying hydrological process in the field-to-field irrigation system     

Ebadi  Arash  Raja  Omid  Ebrahimian  Hamed  Yazdani  Mohammad Reza  Rezaverdinejad  Vahid 《Paddy and Water Environment》2022,20(1):137-150

Paddy and Water Environment - One of the common irrigation systems in the paddy fields is field-to-field irrigation. The management of these irrigation systems is difficult and essential because of...  相似文献   

Protein Digestibility using Corrected Amino Acid Score method (PDCAAS) of four types of mushrooms grown in Jordan     

Dabbour IR  Takruri HR 《Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands)》2002,57(1):13-24

This study was conducted to evaluate the protein quality of four types ofedible mushrooms common in Jordan in terms of protein digestibility –corrected amino acid score (PDCAAS), which is a combination of thechemical score of the limiting amino acid multiplied by true digestibility ofthe protein. True protein digestibility values were low (61.4, 73.4, 52.6and 80.5 for Terfezia claveryi, Pleurotus ostreatus, Tricholoma terrum and Agaricus macrosporus, respectively). Based onthe essential amino acids pattern requirements for children, the limitingamino acids in P. ostreatus and A. macrosporus protein weresulphur-containing amino acids with chemical scores of 0.61 and 0.50,respectively. However, lysine was the limiting amino acid in the protein ofT. claveryi and T. terreum with chemical scores of 0.71 and 0.67,respectively, and the PDCAAS was 0.43, 0.45, 0.35 and 0.40 for themushrooms types, respectively. Considering the pattern of essential amino acid requirements of laboratory rats, thesulphur containing amino acids were the limiting amino acids in the proteinof T. claveryi, P. ostreatus, T. terreum and A.macrosporus with chemical scores of 0.56, 0.30, 0.34 and 0.25,respectively. The PDCAAS were 0.34, 0.22, 0.17 and 0.20,respectively. It is concluded that the four mushroom types studied are of lowprotein quality.  相似文献   

Protecting potato plants against PVX and PVY viral infections by the application of native and chemically modified legume proteins     

Sitohy  Mahmoud  Taha  Soad  Abdel-Hamid  Mahmoud  Abdelbacki  Ashraf  Hamed  Ali  Osman  Ali 《植物病害和植物保护杂志》2021,128(4):1101-1114

Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection - Methylated soy and chickpea proteins (MSP and MCP, respectively), and 11S globulin (a soy protein fraction), are characterized by net positive charges and...  相似文献   

Effect of Stewing in Cooking Step on Textural and Morphological Properties of Cooked Rice     

E. GHASEMI  M. T. Hamed MOSAVIAN  M. H. Haddad KHODAPARAST 《水稻科学》2009,16(3):243-246

Stewing of rice grains by steam after boiling in excess water can be used for cooking rice perfectly. The effects of this procedure in cooking of three varieties of Iranian rice (Sang Tarom, Domsiyah and Fajr) on textural and morphological properties of cooked rice grains were investigated. The results showed that this step in rice cooking reduced the hardness and increased the adhesiveness of rice grains significantly. By the use of the scanning electron microscopy, it was shown that the outer surface of cooked rice stewed by steam had less porosity and closer pores due to the modification during cooking, and better gelatinization and more expansion of starch granules compared to non-stewed samples. The use of this procedure in rice cooking to provide a fully cooked and gelatinized, softer and stickier final product is recommended.  相似文献   

The Accumulation Potency of Bulk and Nano Zinc Metal and Their Impacts on the Hematological and Histological Perturbations of Oreochromis niloticus     

Amr Adel Abdel-Khalek  Aliaa Hamed  Mohamed-Assem Marie 《Water, air, and soil pollution》2016,227(6):206

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Soil substrate as a cascade of capillary barriers for conserving water in a desert environment:lessons learned from arid nature     

Ali AI-MAKTOUMI  ;Said A-ISMAILY  ;Anvar KACIMOV  ;Hamed AI-BUSAIDI  ;Said AI-SAQRI  ;Mansour AI-HADABI 《干旱区科学》2014,(6):690-703

Interaction between soil pedogenesis, subsurface water dynamics, climate, vegetation and human ingenuity in a desert environment has been found to result in a unique ecohydrological system with an essentially three dimensional sedimentation structure in the bed of a recharge dam in Oman. A 3-D array of silt blocks sandwiched by dry sand-filled horizontal and vertical fractures was studied in pot experiments as a model of a natural prototype. Pots are filled with a homogenous sand-silt mixture(control) or artificially structured(smart design, SD) soil substrates. Rhodes grass and ivy(Ipomea, Convolvulaceae) were grown in the pots during the hottest season in Oman. Soil moisture content(SMC) was measured at different depths over a period of 20 days without irrigation. SD preserved the SMC of the root zone for both ivy and grass(SMC of around 25%–30% compared to 10% for control, 3 days after the last irrigation). Even after 20 days, SMC was around 18% in the SD and 7% in the control. This, similar to the case of a natural prototype, is attributed to the higher upward capillary movement of water in control pots and intensive evaporation. The capillary barrier of sand sheaths causes discontinuity in moisture migration from the micro-pores in the silt blocks to sand pores. The blocks serve as capillarity-locked water buffers, which are depleted at a slow rate by transpiration rather than evaporation from the soil surface. This creates a unique ecosystem with a dramatic difference in vegetation between SD-pots and control pots. Consequently, the Noy-Meir edaphic factor, conceptualizing the ecological impact of 1-D vertical heterogeneity of desert soils, should be generalized to incorporate 3-D soil heterogeneity patterns. This agro-engineering control of the soil substrate and soil moisture distribution and dynamics(SMDaD) can be widely used by desert farmers as a cheap technique, with significant savings of irrigation water.  相似文献   

The effect of feeding diets containing deoxynivalenol contaminated corn on channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) challenged with Edwardsiella ictaluri     

Bruce B Manning  Hamed K Abbas  David J Wise  Terry Greenway 《Aquaculture Research》2014,45(11):1782-1786

Channel catfish were fed practical corn‐soybean meal diets for 10 weeks that contained various weighed amounts of ground, dried field corn contaminated with 20 mg deoxynivalenol (DON) kg⁻¹. Weighed amounts of DON corn were blended with weighed amounts of ground, clean corn that contained no DON (0 mg kg⁻¹) to yield five diets that had 0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10.0 mg DON kg⁻¹ of diet. Results show that catfish fed diets that contained DON for 7 weeks did not experience lower weight gains or poorer feed conversion ratios that were significantly (P > 0.05) different from control‐fed fish. Mortality of catfish during the 21‐day post‐challenge period indicate that catfish fed diets containing DON‐contaminated corn that provided at least 5.0 mg DON kg⁻¹ of diet had significantly (P < 0.05) lower mortality than catfish fed the control diet or the diet that provided 2.5 mg DON kg⁻¹ of diet. The presence of DON‐contaminated corn in the experimental diets did not significantly (P > 0.05) alter fish body weight gains and appeared to provide a protective effect for channel catfish challenged with the pathogenic bacterium Edwardsiella ictaluri.  相似文献   

Data-loggers carried on a harness do not adversely affect sheep locomotion     

Hobbs-Chell H  King AJ  Sharratt H  Haddadi H  Rudiger SR  Hailes S  Morton AJ  Wilson AM 《Research in veterinary science》2012,93(1):549-552

The use of externally fitted motion sensors to animal subjects has the potential for allowing researchers to investigate subtle changes in animal movement that may occur with the onset of specific diseases. However, it is crucial to consider whether or not the use of such technology has an effect on the variables measured. Here, we examine the effect of a body harness data logging device on the locomotive patterns of female Merino sheep, Ovis aries. We extracted locomotion variables typical of motion sensor data (stride frequency, stride length, gait type, speed, and limb velocity) from high-definition video collected under controlled conditions. We found no significant difference between the variables measured in the harnessed and unharnessed conditions. Overall, our experiment demonstrates that data-loggers carried on a harness do not adversely affect sheep locomotion, and extended periods of habituation post-instalment of devices should ensure consistency and accuracy of data in future experiments.  相似文献