24 articles in this issue
Alina Antache,Victor Cristea,Lorena Dediu,Iulia Grecu,Stefan M. Petrea,Alexandru C. Bandi
The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of some phytobiotics on biochemical composition of Nile tilapia muscle tissue reared in a recirculating aquaculture system. The experiment was conducted for fourteen weeks, from August 17 to Novembe... see more
Elena Bocioc,Victor Cristea,Neculai Patriche,Iulia Grecu,Alina Antache,Mirela Cretu Mocanu
The use of probiotics in aquaculture is gained increasing scientific and commercial interest for promoting as growth supplements, mostly, but as prophylactic or therapeutic agents, too. The intensive fish rearing often are characterized by stressful condi... see more
Oana M. Boldura,Petrica Bozac,Sorina Popescu
In the past few decades the issue of healthy, organic food has become of great importance among consumers and therefore food producers. It is the age of ecological food were the challenge of producing ecological crops. Fungi are of importance for h... see more
Bogdan C. Cocan,Gheorghe Muresan
The researches were made within S.C. Semtest BVN Targu Mures on a sample of 1946 ejaculates collected from eight bulls, with the age between two and nine years, of Fleckvieh breed, collected between the year 2000 and 2006. In this direction, to identify m... see more
Simona C. Duda,Liviu Al. Marghitas,Dan Dezmirean,Otilia Bobis
In this study, we summarize the recent advances on chemical composition and bioactivity of giant hyssop (Agastache foeniculum (Pursh) Kuntze) and catnip (Nepeta cataria L.). Extracts from giant hyssop and catnip have a significant bioactivity, antibacteri... see more
Georgeta Fidler,Alina Butu,Steliana Rodino,Marian Butu,Petruta C. Cornea
Ganoderma applanatum and Flammulina velutipes are known for their nutritional value. In the present study was tested their antimicrobial and antioxidant capabilities. Due to the resistance of pathogens to synthetic agents, there is a real need for new nat... see more
Emanuel Magdici,Catalin E. Nistor,Ionut B. Pagu,Madalina I. Iordache,Aida Albu,Gabriel V. Hoha,Benone Pasarin
European catfish (Silurus glanis) the biggest fresh water fish from Europe is a breed that present a great interest among the fish breeders, due to its good growing rhythm, as well as among consumers, due to its remarkable sensorial properties. As in the ... see more
Teodor I. Maldara?anu,Aurel ?ara,CÇŽlina Cre?a,Mihai Ben?ea
The aim of this paper was to observe and highlight the possible influence of prebiotics (BioMos and Actigen) and organic Selenium (Sel-Plex), administered in the feeds of laying quails, on the intestinal mucosa and the impact it has on the production and ... see more
Ioan Pa?ca,Emilian M. Furdui,Liviu Al. Marghita?,Daniel Dezmirean,Dana Pusta,Adrian Cîmpean,Mihai Borzan,Adrian Macri
The silkworm Bombyx mori L. is a domesticated insect considered as a reference in several domains (Mauchamp et al., 2008). The theoretical and practical importance of the silkworms are shown in many studies (Nagaraju et al., 1996; Kipriotis et al., 2000; ... see more
Steliana Rodino,Marian Butu,Georgeta Fidler,Alina Butu,Constanta Negoescu,Calina P. Cornea
The investigations regarding the use of plant extracts for their antimicrobial activity is becoming more intense nowadays. The goal of this paper was to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of several plant extracts in order to provide a better understandi... see more
Anca Roman-Popovici,Dan Sumovschi,Ioan Gîlca
The breed, age and sex of the horses are all important factors in determining the future rank in international high-level show jumping competition and this is the reason why we choose to analyze these factors. The objective of this study was to analyze th... see more
Stefan Stângaciu,Liviu Al. Marghita?,Daniel S. Dezmirean,Victorita Bonta,Rodica Margaoan,Otilia Bobi?
Apitherapy represents the utilization of bee products for preventing and curing a series of illnesses and also the promotion of a healthy life style through consumption of these products. Due to the fact that apitherapy is a part of medical science, bee p... see more
Daniel S. Dezmirean,Liviu Al. Marghita?,Nicodim Fi?,Flore Chirila,Bogdan Gherman,Rodica Margaoan,Adriana Aurori,Otilia Bobi?
Heather (Calluna vulgaris) honey is a special type of honey, highly valued for its characteristic strong taste, unusual texture and health properties. Antibacterial activity of honey is due to the low acidity, high osmolarity, content of hydrogen peroxide... see more
Rodica Margaoan,Liviu Al. Marghita?,Daniel S. Dezmirean,Bogdan Gherman,Flore Chirila,Iulia Zacharias,Otilia Bobi?
Bee pollen is consumed for api-therapeutical, nutritional and medicinal properties. These actions are attributed to its chemical composition and mostly phenolics, carotenoids, fatty acids and vitamins. For this study bee pollen was freshly harvested and i... see more
Claudiu Sima,Lourens Heres,Ronald Klont,Vioara Mire?an
The quality of meat products strongly depends on fresh meat quality, which is the result of ante-mortem and post-mortem muscle metabolism, influenced by a series of factors. This study was conducted to investigate the influence on the final pork meat qual... see more
Luisa Andronie,Vioara Mire?an,Ioana Pop,Camelia Raducu,Aurelia Coroian,Cristi Coroian,Daniel Cocan,Radu Constantinescu
The Raman spectra of polycrystalline anhydrous orotic acid have been also recorded and compared to the SERS data. This form are found to chemisorb on Ag colloidal nanoparticles exhibiting different SERS spectral pattern. SERS of orotic acid analysis sugge... see more
Ana Ci?mileanu,Catalin Dragomir,Smaranda Toma,Horia Grosu,Eugenia Mircea
While in vitro digestibility of the ruminants’ feeds is classically measured by Tilley-Terry (TT) method, more operative and simple enzymatic methods, such as pepsin-cellulase (PC) were alternatively developed. Use of PC was previously validated for the... see more
Dorel Dronca,Nicolae Pacala,Ioan Bencsik,Teofil Oroian,Vasile Cighi,Rasvan Popa,Ada Cean,Adela Marcu,Alexandru Dronca
Romanian Mioritic Shepherd dog, was selected from a natural population breed in Carpathian Mountains. The aim of this paper was to estimate the correlation coefficients between 6 characteristics, based on individual values from 23 females from Romanian Mi... see more
Georgeta Fidler,Steliana Rodino,Alina Butu,Petruta C. Cornea
The present paper aimed to study the growth anddevelopment of two macromycetes, Flammulina velutipes and Ganoderma applanatumon enriched culture medium as follows: Hwang medium, sorghum deposit and wineyeast. It was found that the influence of culture med... see more
Mihaela Giuburunca,Adriana Criste,Vioara Mire?an
Enteric fermentation from ruminants represents, besides the contribution to global warming, a huge energy loss for the animal. To reduce the methane emissions and to increase livestock productions (milk or meat), many researchers initiated some attempts s... see more
Sabina NECULAI-VALEANU,Dan Drugociu,Petru Rosca
The standard acrosome reaction (AR) in cryopreserved semen doses of dairy and beef cattle breed was analyzed in this study. 18 frozen semen doses from 6 bulls (3 semen samples per bull) of 3 different cattle breeds (2 Charolais, 2 Holstein, 2 Fleckvieh) w... see more
Gabriela Frunză Tarnauceanu,Cecilia Pop,Paul C. Boi?teanu
This paper is part of a broader study aimed at comparative characterization of the rabbits (Belgian Giant breed) and hares (Lepus Europaeus Pallas) of meat and physiological status. For hares very few data are available and were observed significant diffe... see more
Gabriela FRUNZÄ‚ TÄ‚RNÄ‚UCEANU
The domains of application of measuring the enzymes activity include: appreciation of functional maturity and the ability to adapt of production animals, eredopathology, the diagnosis of locomotors syndromes, pathology of the nervous system, blood patholo... see more
Oana Maria Boldura,Sorina Popescu,Radu Sumalan
Areas affected by drought have lately extended all over the world. Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.), one of the most important species for oil production, is sensitive to drought stress mainly during the early vegetative growth stage. The comparative proteome... see more