The objective of this study was to evaluate the fatty acid profile and PGE2 concentration in tibia of broiler chickens fed on diets with different linseed oil (LO) levels from one to 42 days of age. At the initial and growing phases (1 to 21 days and 22 to 42 days of age, respectively) a completely randomized design was used with four treatments, six replications and 50 birds per experimental unit. The birds were fed diets with different linseed oil […]

Following the development of more accurate methods for lipid evaluation, various compounds have been discovered and studied as a way to improve and enrich diets to meet the animal requirements. Triglycerides are the major lipid component of diets and source of fatty acids that are used in the synthesis of important compounds as phospholipids. The fatty acids from phospholipids play a fundamental role in cell signaling and are substrates for specific enzymes in the synthesis of immune response mediators. Several […]

The effect of arachidonic acid (AA) cascade on bovine embryo development in a granulosa cell co-culture system was studied. Arachidonic acid (100 µM) was supplemented from 1-cell to 8-16 cell block stage (first three days of co-culture) and from 1-cell to hatching. Specific cyclooxygenase (indomethacin, 28 µM) and lipoxygenase (nordihydroguaiaretic acid – NDGA, 28 µM) inhibitors were used from 1-cell to 8-16 cell block stage with AA. Embryo development was assessed by cleavage, day 7-day 8 and hatched embryo rates […]