Body weight and enzyme activities in blood plasma of chickens hatched from eggs irradiated with low level gamma rays before incubation
2009
Kraljevic, P., University of Zagreb, Zagreb (Croatia). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Physiology and Radiobiology | Vilic, M., University of Zagreb, Zagreb (Croatia). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Physiology and Radiobiology | Miljanic, S., Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb (Croatia). Division of Materials Chemistry | Simpraga, M., University of Zagreb, Zagreb (Croatia). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Physiology and Radiobiology
An attempt was made to determine the effect of eggs irradiation by low dose gamma radition upon body weight (BW), body weight gain (BWG), feed consumption (FC) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) of chickens hatched from irradiated eggs. Our aim was also to investigate the activity of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), acid phosphatase (ACP), and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in the blood plasma of those chickens. The obtained results indicate that low doses of gamma radiation have a stimulative effect upon metabolic processes in chickens hatched from eggs irradiated before incubation, which is proved by increase of BWG and BW, as well as by increase of AST, ALT and ACP activities in blood plasma.
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