PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

W S Miller

Publications and source records attributed to W S Miller.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1984

Physical activity and responses to projective stimuli in neurotic vs. psychotic depression.

Responses to projective material by neurotically and psychotically depressed patients were scored for fluency, movement, and primary process during light physical activity and inactivity. A depression measure was also obtained. Significant positive correlations were found between fluency, movement, and primary process. Movement scores did not increase significantly during physical activity for either group. No significant correlations were found between level of depression and production of movement and primary process. However, primary process, controlled for fluency, increased significantly during physical activity for neurotic, but not for psychotic depressives.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

The effect of feeding magnesium-enriched diets on the quality of the albumen of stored eggs.

1. Pullets were given from 1-d-old diets containing 1-6, 4-1, 8-1 and 12-0 g Mg/kg. Only small effects of these diets on live weight, food consumption, egg number, egg weights or egg-shell thickness were observed except at the highest level (12-0 Mg/kg) which caused diarrhoea and an appreciable lowering of the live weight of growing pullets. A further group was given from point-of-lay a diet containing 9-3 g Mg/kg. 2. Eggs laid on 3 consecutive days from each of eighteen hens were collected at intervals of 3 weeks until the birds were 68-5 weeks old. Eggs laid on the 3rd day were used to determine the initial proportion of thick egg-white present and also the concentration of Mg, Ca, Na and K in the thick egg-white. Eggs laid on the 1st and 2nd days were stored at 20 degrees for 20 d to establish the proportion of thick egg-white remaining after storage. 3. With the unsupplemented diet the proportion of residual thick egg-white after storage of eggs for 20 d at 20 degrees was 306, 161 and 305 mg/g total egg-white when the hens were 26-5, 53-5 and 68-5 weeks of age respectively. When the diet containing 9-3 g Mg/kg was given, the proportion of thick egg-white after storage remained approximately 400 mg/g throughout the period of the trial. 4. The mean Mg concentration in the thick egg-white of eggs laid by hens given unsupplemented diets was 5-77 mM. The addition of extra Mg to the diet increased the content of Mg in the thick egg-white, for example when the diet contained 9-3 g Mg/kg the mean concentration rose to 7-69 mM.

Animal Feed↗
PubMed1972

Egg taints.

Explore the source record for details and available documents.

Animal Feed↗
PubMed1966

Retinal in the blood and liver of the fowl in relation to sex and maturity.

1. Concentrations of retinal (vitamin A(1) aldehyde) in the plasma and liver of laying hens, mature cockerels, immature pullets and pullets undergoing sexual maturation have been measured. 2. The plasma of laying hens contained about 8mug. of retinal/100ml., about ten times that found in the plasma of mature cockerels and immature pullets. In laying hens that had received large doses of retinyl palmitate 8-4 weeks previously, the mean concentration of retinal was 18.3mug./100ml. of plasma. 3. The appearance of significant amounts of retinal in the plasma of maturing pullets coincided with hypertrophy of the oviduct, increase in concentration of plasma lipid and onset of egg-laying. 4. Retinal was present in the livers of all types of fowl examined and the concentrations, which ranged from 0.2 to 5.8mug./g. wet wt., were highly correlated (r=0.79) with the concentrations of liver retinyl esters, which ranged from 92 to 1530mug./g. wet wt.

Animals↗