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B L Reid

Publications and source records attributed to B L Reid.

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PubMed1978

Energy utilization by laying hens. I. Energetic efficiencies of maintenance and production.

The energetic efficiency of metabolizable energy conversion to net energy for maintenance and/or production was determined in laying hens. The techniques employed indicated that maintenance and production had essentially the same efficiencies (.619 and .628, respectively). Fasting heat production was 69.28 kcal/Wkg75 (physiological body weight) and the maintenance requirement was 111.1 kcal/Wkg75. Limiting metabolizable energy intake in laying hens reduced both egg weight and hen-day production. Regression equations predicted a reduction of 1.53 g in egg weight and a reduction of 2.5% in egg production for each 10 kcal metabolizable energy reduction in intake. This paper reports techniques which may be employed for energetic efficiency evaluations of feedstuffs, mixed diets, and energy utilization by laying hens in short term studies.

Animal Feed↗
PubMed1977

Dietary sodium for laying hens.

Dietary sodium requirements of laying hens in open type and evaporatively cooled housing were determined to be 0.126 and 0.145% of the diet, respectively. The lowest level of 0.04% sodium supported average rates of production of 49.1 and 60.3% in the two houses for the 28 weeks of the study.

Animal Feed↗
PubMed1976

A hypothesis: the role of a high-risk male in the etiology of cervical carcinoma: a correlation of epidemiology and molecular biology.

Certain impressive epidemiological evidence appearing in the last few years leads to the conclusion that some males are more prone to have a spouse with squamous cancer of the cervix than others. Advances in knowledge in other fields, especially at the molecular biological level, enable speculation on reasons for this curious conclusion. These readily testable theories, together with an outline of the evidence on which they rest, form the substance of this hypothesis.

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell↗
PubMed1976

Causes of cervical carcinoma: new ideas.

There are many features of cervical cancer that distinguish it from other common human cancers. It is extraordinarily sensitive to environmental variation, thus coming under early notice by the epidemiologists. Its accessibility and the introduction of aids to visualization, such as the colposcope, have enabled us to combine the methods of epidemiology and molecular biology in studying disease. This combination may well untangle one of the more serious conceptual problems in contemporary biology - the real nature of the carcinogenic process and all this in man himself.

Adolescent↗