Damage to collagen protein and its gene expression caused by excessive fluoride (F) ingestion plays an important role in the etiology of skeletal fluorosis. Recently we found that industrial F pollution significantly increased the expression level of type II collagen gene (COL2A1) in rib cartilage of Inner Mongolia cashmere goats. With the same goats and methods, we have now quantified another ...

Three c ase studies are used to illustrate some issues which arise when digital image analysis methods are applied in microscopy. An algorithm is described for estimating the diameters of cashmere bres from out-of-focus images. The process of image formation in diierential interference c ontrast DIC microscopy is modelled, and used t o c onstruct templates for identifying and measuring algal, b...

The broad goal of this research was to examine the nature of the Melanocortin receptor 1 (MC1R) locus on the coat color phenotype of seven goat breeds with different color coat. Blood samples were collected from five Iranian indigenous (Khalkhal, Markhor, Naeini, Najdi and Tali) and two exotic (Cashmere and Saanen) goat breeds. Polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism ...