BACKGROUND Grassland degradation caused by overgrazing poses a threat to both animal husbandry and environmental sustainability in most semi-arid areas especially north China. Although the Chinese Government has made huge efforts to restore degraded grasslands, a considerable attempt has unfortunately failed due to an inadequate consideration of economic benefits to local communities. METHODO...

Traditional approaches to assess the immune response of chickens to infection are through animal trials, which are expensive, require enhanced biosecurity, compromise welfare, and are frequently influenced by confounding variables. Since the chicken embryo becomes immunocompetent prior to hatch, we here characterized the transcriptional response of selected innate immune genes to Newcastle dise...

Aim: To evaluate the hygienic quality of raw chicken meat and raw milk sold in the local markets of Patna with reference to isolation of Salmonella and antibiotic resistance pattern of Salmonella against commonly used antibiotics. Materials and Methods: A total of 370 samples comprising of 228 chicken meat and 142 market milk samples were processed for isolation and serotyping, supplemented wit...

Chicken skeletal muscle satellite cells are located between the basement membrane and the sarcolemma of mature muscle fibers. Avian broilers have been genetically selected based on their high growth velocity and large muscle mass. The Wuding chicken is a famous local chicken in Yunnan Province that undergoes non-selection breeding and is slow growing. In this study, we aimed to explore differen...

Avian coccidiosis is a huge problem worldwide. Heavily infected animals that show severe clinical signs and coccidiostat resistance are causing important economic losses. The present study aimed to update the recent cases of coccidiosis in Central Java, Indonesia, and to show the importance of the disease in the region. A total of 699 samples were obtained from different chicken breed. Differen...

Genetic interrelationship within and between strains was assessed using pure Nigerian normal feathered local, pure exotic and their crossbred hens for age and body weight at first lay, egg weight and egg internal quality traits. 100 layers comprising 20 Black Nera, 20 White Leghorn, 20 Normal feathered local chicken, 20 White Leghorn x Local cross and 20 Black Nera x Local crosses were randomly...

Breaking out cases by type of abuse, the data show that sexual abuse rate declined 2% from 2014 to 2015 to a nationally estimated 58,500 cases. Physical abuse declined 1% to an estimated 118,700 cases. Neglect declined 3% to an estimated 548,200. Figure 1 represents the trends as rates per 10,000 minors in the population for all three maltreatment types. David Finkelhor, Kei Saito, and Lisa Jones

doi:10.4049/jimmunol.0901748 online Dec 9, 2009; 2010;184;796-806; originally published J. Immunol. J. Utz, Ann Marshak-Rothstein and Ian R. Rifkin Rocco J. Richards, Chih Long Liu, Regina Cheung, Paul Amanda A. Watkins, Tamar Aprahamian, Patricia Busto, Christophe Richez, Kei Yasuda, Ramon G. Bonegio, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Fc{gamma}RIIB-/Mouse Models of Fc{gamma}RIIB-/-Yaa and for Disea...