Showing posts with label journal of animal nutrition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journal of animal nutrition. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Careful Surgery, Management and Treatment of Feline (Cat) Breast Cancer



Mixed mammary tumors and mammary sarcomas are rare, and sarcomas appear to be low metastasize. Feline mammary complex carcinoma and adenocarcinoma are one of the most common feline neoplasms and represent an important cause of mortality. It is caused at all age’s stage of feline, canine and all types of animal and human beings. There are two main types of tumors, benign and malignant. A malignant mammary tumor is very quickly spread to lateral region of lymph nodes, and sites of local metastases are dictated by lymphatic drainage patterns. The malignant tumor rapidly spread in thoracic mammary gland (cranial and caudal gland), malignant tumor is also known as cancer. Cancer is a groupof diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential spread to otherportion of the body. Benign tumors do not spread to other body portion, and this all tumors are not a cancerous. Mostly the feline mammary tumors are malignant tumors, the ratio or percentage of malignant mammary tumours is higher in cat (86%) as compared to dog (42%) and the histology of feline mammary tumors is closer to that in human breast cancer.

Treatment of Feline (Cat) Breast Cancer
Although there are many kinds of cancer, all cancers start because abnormal cells grow out of control. There are so many different types and different stage of cancercan be having very differently. For example, Breast cancer, lung cancer and skin cancer are very different diseases. They grow at different rates and respond to different treatments.

Friday, 16 September 2016

Effect of supplementing essential oils on the in vitro methane production and digestibility of wheat straw



Mitigation of enteric methane emission and decreasing the carbon footprints of ruminants is one of the pressing challenges faced in the ruminant production sector. Not withstanding, because of the intricate relationships existing between theefficiency of feed fermentation in the rumen and methanogenesis, mitigation options have to be evaluated not just in terms of their effect on methane or total green house gases emissions but also on other rumen functional parameters and on their final consequences on animal production.

wheat straw
The efficiency of energy and protein utilization in the rumen is relatively low and can be improved by the modulation of several metabolic pathways, including the inhibition of methane production and deamination in the rumen. This low efficiency not only reduces production performance, but also contributes to the release ofpollutants to the environment. The efficiency can be improved by modulating the activity of specific rumen microbial populations involved in the metabolic pathways. In recent years, the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animal nutrition has been banned in the European Union because of its relation to the increase in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to drugs which are used by humans.