A trail was conducted to determine utilization of diet containing poultry excreta with different sources of nitrogen by cattle or buffalo rumen microorganisms in vitro. The aim was to find alternative sources of protein and low prices ruminant diets. Commercial broiler house excreta were used as 10% of a ration. Supplemented diets were basal diet with 10% poultry excreta alone or either with 3 g/kg yeast or 1.5 g urea/kg feed or both as well as 2% molasses. The basal diet comprised 40% concentrates and 60% wheat straw on dry matter (DM) basis as a control diet. All diets were inoculated with rumen fluid of cattle or buffalo. Digestibility of DM was not significantly influenced by both species and diets. However, organic matter (OM) digestion varied significantly with different diets, the highest value was obtained by yeast, urea, poultry excreta and molasses group (64.70%). Species and diets showed significant differences in neutral digested fiber (NDF) digestion. The highest values were obtained by buffalo and the yeast, urea, poultry excreta and molasses group (65.09%). Ammonia production was significantly increased by adding urea to the diet (12.64 and 13.79). Total volatile fatty acid and acetic acid % were produced significantly higher by cattle and the group of poultry excreta only. A buffalo rumen fluid produced higher propionic acid% and less acetic: propionic percent than cattle. The total number of microorganisms influenced significantly by diet only, as yeast, urea, poultry excreta and molasses group obtained the highest number.

The effect of different doses of Eminium spiculatum aqueous leaf extract on coagulation of blood in the rabbits were studied .Animals treated with extract at a dose of 200 , and 400 mg / kg body weight intraperitoneally daily for 7 days produced a significant ( p < 0.05 ) increase in the clotting time , prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time with normal platelet counts when compared with phosphate buffer saline ( untreated ) and heparin ( treated ) control rabbits. The effect of the extract on coagulation of the blood was shown to be dose – dependent . Result of this study suggest that extract shows considerable anticoagulant activity in rabbits and has potential to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

An allergic extracts from chicken feather and dropping were prepared with extraction, followed by purification using dialysis. Total and specific IgE ELISA was performed on a total of 190 serum samples collected from allergic and healthy individuales in center of asthma and allergic diseases in Basrha city during September 2011. ELISA test based on total IgE results revealed that the higher rate of allergic patients (47.37%) had allergy questionable while (35.26%) of them had allergy very probable and (17.37%) of them infected with allergy not probable. According to the relationship between the symptoms of allergy and total IgE based ELISA results, the higher rate of allergy very probable 95.5% was observed in symptomatic patients. According to the results of ELISA based on specific IgE the overall rate of chicken allergens in studied patients 94.7%. Chicken dropping allergens showed the higher overall 94.7% of distribution followed by the rate of feather allergens 73.68%. Depending on the sex, age (first age group range from>15-45 and second age group range from

This study is designed to evaluate the effect of hypothyroidism on reproductive efficiency of adult male rats. Hypothyroid state was induced by administration of anti-thyroid drug propylthiouracil (PTU) (15 mg/kg b.w) orally by gavage for 45 days. Twenty adult male rats of (146-200gm) body weight were used in this study and divided into two groups: control group and PTU treated group. At the end of the experimental period, the rats were euthanized via chloroform . Blood was collected in order to determine serum levels of some hormones, including thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), thyroxin (T4), triidothyronine (T3), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH) and testosterone(T). Semen analysis was also done. The results of hormones assay showed that there was a significant increase (P≤0.05) in the TSH while there were a significant decrease (P≤0.05) in the serum concentrations of T4, T3, T, FSH and LH. Semen analysis showed that there was no significant difference in the sperm count while there was a significant decrease (P≤0.05) in the individual motility whereas; there was a significant increase (P≤0.05) in the abnormal and dead sperm. Thus PTU-induced hypothyroidism can causes impairment of reproductive efficiency of adult male rats.

A study was conducted to investigate the protective and therapeutic effects of crude garlic (Allium sativum) against experimental infection with Eimeria stiedae in rabbits. Forty- two rabbits Divided into four groups : six rabbits a healthy control group (HC); 12 rabbits as challenged –garlic –protected group (CGP) which received a daily dose of 0.5 gkg body weight crude garlic for five days before challenged with E. stiedae ;12 rabbits as challenged –garlic –treated group (CGT) which received a daily dose of 0.5 gkg body weight crude garlic for five days after challenged with of E .stiedae and 12 rabbits as infected group (IG).The challenge dose was 4×104 sporulated E. stiedae oocyst per rabbits .Mortality rate , fecal oocyst count were elevated throughout the experiment. At the end of the experiment ,all rabbits were killed and histopathological examination was performed. Mortalities were recorded in HC group , while mortality was found to be 8% ,25% and 50% in the CGP ,CGT and IC groups, respectively. CGP rabbits have the lower numbers of oocysts than those in the CGT than those in IC groups. Hepatic lesion were less severe in the CGP and CGT groups than in IC group. The results showed that oral administration of crud garlic ameliorated the adverse impacts of hepatic coccidiosis on rabbits as prophylactic and therapeutic , but garlic was more effective as prophylactic .

The present study was undertaken to investigate the ability of antioxidants Coriander sativum L . (cilantro ) and Allium sativum L.(garlic ) to protect against mercuric chloride induced reproductive toxicity in male rats .A sub Lethal chronic exposure (0.12mg/kg B.W mercuric chloride )resulted in a decrease of body weight, testicular weight and testosterone hormone with regressed histological properties of testis , epididymis and pre - cancerous changes in epididymis .These changes were ameliorated with the administration of cilantro and garlic .The results of our study suggested that the mentioned antioxidants exert significant protection against mercuric chloride induced male reproductive toxicity and provide a strong evidence for the beneficial role of antioxidant vegetables in prevention of mercury toxicity

The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of Cumin on diabetes mellitus induced by alloxan in rats. Male Wister rats were used, and randomly divided into five groups (6-8 rats for each group): The first group: was administered distilled water and served as normal control, the second group: induced diabetes by single subcutaneous injection of alloxan 100 mg/kg.body weight and served as diabetic control, the 3,4,5 groups was administered 50,100,200 gm/kg of rat's forage respectively for four weeks, then diabetes are induced in this groups by same route as above. Cumin treatment in all doses lead to significant decrease glucose levels, and triglyceride and significant decrease in cholesterol level in dose 100, 200 gm/kg of forage and no change occur in total protein level. These results indicate that cumin have a role in delaying of diabetes through the effects of cumin in decrease some biochemical parameters

The antibacterial activity of the aqueous, ethanolic and methanolic extracts of Lawsonia inermis (henna) leaves were tested against 46 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from raw milk, also tested against standard bacteria (Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853). The highest antibacterial potency was observed for the methanolic extract with zone of inhibition (14.3043 ± 1.8722 mm), followed by ethanolic (12.9565 ± 2.0106 mm) then aqueous (11.6304 ± 2.2446 mm). The effect of methanolic extract against methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) isolates was the excellent in comparison to other extracts (14.1± 1.88 mm) zone of inhibition followed by ethanolic (12.91 ± 2.372 mm) then aqueous (12 ± 2.41 mm). The isolates were subjected Kirby Bauer method to test their antibiotic susceptibility pattern, substantial antibiotic resistance were shown by 46 (100%) of isolates for ampicillin. Moderate resistance was shown by 31(67.4%) for oxacillin and low resistance was observed by erythromycin. The preliminary phytochemical analysis of the extracts revealed that the presence of high amount of phenolic compounds in methanolic extract (5.4) mg/ml, ethanolic (4.9) mg/ml and aqueoeus (3) mg/ml. MRSA provides a prospecting for new compounds which may be particularly effective against infections that are currently difficult to treat (1). Aims of the conducted study are: 1) an attempt to determine the antibacterial activity of aqueous, ethanolic and methanolic extracts of henna (Lawsonia inermis Linn) leaves against S. aureus isolates, and Gram negative bacteria. 2) antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the isolates. 3) explore the biochemical constituents of extracts.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the auto-omental graft on the fracture healing after destruction of the periosteum around the fracture site in rabbits. Eight mature healthy rabbits of local breed were employed to performed transverse fracture in the mid shift of the femoral bone, under general anesthesia and highly aseptic technique, then destruction of the periosteum was done about 1 cm away from each end of the fragments bone. The immobilization by intramedulary pinning, then the animals were divided into two equal group. The control group was left to follow the healing process, while in the treatment group the auto- omental graft was used to cover the fracture site. This graft was taken from the laparotomy of the left side and weekly radiographic examination performed for 10 weeks. The result is revealed that the omental graft play an important role in promote the fracture healing which was evident during the early new bone formation at the end of the second week compare to the control group which the sign of the callus formation was obvious lately at the end of the third week. The nature of the callus formation of the treatment group was limited to the fracture site and quickly cross the fracture site .While in the control group the new bone formation was heavy unlimited and need 8-9 week to bridge the fracture fragments. The omental graft play role in starting the remodeling phase, by decreasing the amount of the callus formation, with the signs of increase of the callus density, and marked of incorporation of the callus formation with the cortical bone