Zoological Literature of 1950

Analysis of the leprosy literature indexed in Medline (1950-2007).

Some 19 201 leprosy-related articles were identified in the Medline database for the period 1950-2007. These were analysed for distribution and evolution of a number of variables: publication years, languages, document types, journals, authors, major aspects and countries involved, and author addresses. Next to a number of tables presenting the actual results, some noteworthy trends and possibl...

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...

Premature Citations of Zoological Nomina

When this was estimated from the records, it was found that the three subjects that did show retention (group B in Table 1) showed a shorter duration of maximum EEG depression (8) than those that did not show retention (group A in Table 1). This difference in depression was a reliable one (P<.016; two-tailed Mann Whitney U test); thus duration of EEG depression was inversely related to retentio...

The Zoological Society of London

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...