THE NAPLES ZOOLOGICAL STATION

The Zoological Society of London

Laparoscopy in zoological medicine.

The technique of laparoscopy was adapted and utilized in zoological medicine for various mammals, birds, and reptiles for reproductive and diagnostic studies as well as clinically related research. It was concluded that since anesthesia was routinely required for most manipulative procedures in zoo animals, and since laparoscopy adds little additional risk, the use of this technique provides an...

Polypharmacy in Zoological Medicine

Polypharmacy is a term that describes the inappropriate, concurrent use of multiple drugs in an individual patient. Zoological medicine practitioners must take approved agents (veterinary or human) and extrapolate their use to non-approved species often with little species-specific pharmacological evidence to support their decisions. When considering polypharmacy, even less information exists c...

(Open)Mosix Experience in Naples

This document is a short report of the activities carried out by the computing centre of INFN, INFM and Dept. of Physics at University of Naples “Federico II”, concerning the installation, management and usage of HPC Linux clusters running (open)Mosix [1][2]. These activities started on small clusters, running a local copy of the operating system and evolved through the years to a configuration...

The transplantation of tissues between zoological classes.

The ability of embryonic tissues and of metastasizable tumors of mammalian origin to grow on heterologous transplantation has been demon strated (2, 3). The investigations concerned were limited largely to transfers between mammalian species, and, although several chicken tumors were found to survive transplantation to the eyes of guinea pigs, mice, and rabbits (11), no detailed exploration of ...