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Volume 18(2):116-123, 2014.
Effect of dietary Nigella sativa seeds on the small intestinal mucosa of broiler chickens.
Hamedi S DVM, PhDa, Shomali
T DVM,
PhDba, Validad
Y MSc, Farzaneh
M MSc
acDepartment of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Karaj
Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj bDivision
of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Basic Sciences, School of
Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University,
ABSTRACT
Hamedi S, Shomali T, Validad Y, Farzaneh M., Effect of dietary Nigella sativa seeds on the
small intestinal mucosa of broiler chickens, Onl J
Vet Res.,
18(2):116-123, 2014. Histology of
intestinal mucosa of broilers fed dietary N. sativa seed in diet is
described. Groups of ten 51d old chickens each were fed 0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2% of N.
sativa seeds (experimental groups) or basal diet (controls) for 45 days.
Samples of mid duodenum, jejunum and ileum were subjected to routine
histological laboratory methods. An increase was observed in villus
height/crypt depth ratio in duodenum, jejunum and ileum in N sativa fed broilers compared with controls.
Key words: Nigella sativa seed;
intestinal mucosa; histomorphometry; broilers
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