To establish a new system to isolate keratolytic bacteria from the hoof wall cavity (Gidoh) of a racehorse, we invented the horn powder agar-translucency (HoPAT) test and horn zymography (HZ). Using routine bacteriological techniques and these methods, we isolated five strains of keratolytic soil bacteria, which were then identified by means of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequencing analysis....

Propensity score weighting is sensitive to model misspecification and outlying weights that can unduly influence results. The authors investigated whether trimming large weights downward can improve the performance of propensity score weighting and whether the benefits of trimming differ by propensity score estimation method. In a simulation study, the authors examined the performance of weight...

in orde r to study of the hoof development in sheep . 16 healthy sheep embryos with different ages immediately after slaughters of their mothers in slaughter house were collected hooges were cut half sagitilly and fixed in 10% buffered formalin.routine histologic processes were used and 6µ thick paraffin sections were stained by haematoxylin-eosin method and studied under light microscope.the h...

the periodic trimming of the long hairs growing at the distal end of the tail -switch trimming- is humane alternative of tail docking. the purpose of this study was to determine the influence of switch trimming on somatic cell count (scc), california mastitis test (cmt) and udder cleanliness of lactating cows in a free-stall dairy farm. in the present study, 219 healthy, pregnant holstein cows ...

An experiment was designed to compare BW and mortality of turkeys when three methods of beak trimming were utilized. Turkeys from six genetic lines were assigned to three beak trimming methods: arc beak trimming at hatching, hot-blade block trimming at 13 d, or hot-blade top-beak-only trimming at 13 d. Beak trimming method influenced 8-wk BW of three lines of females, but did not affect female ...

The resistance increase by transverse cutting is more quickly than by ordinate cutting when using laser trimming. Therefore, the precision and efficiency of laser trimming can be improved at low cost through reasonable design of the L-cut. In this paper, the finite element method is used to study the influence of L-cut on the resistance of chip resistor. Experiments proved that the qualitative ...

Glucosidase II (GluII) is a glycan-trimming enzyme active on nascent glycoproteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). It trims the middle and innermost glucose residues (Glc2 and Glc1) from N-linked glycans. The monoglucosylated glycan produced by the first GluII trimming reaction is recognized by calnexin/calreticulin and serves as the signal for entry into this folding pathway. GluII is a het...

Available online 22 June 2015 During fourmonths in the winter period of 2002–2003, a census of four species of hoofed animals (red deer, sika deer, roe deer, and musk deer) was conducted in the study areas of the Sikhote-Alin Reserve and the surrounding area, including the territory of the planned Reserve Tavayza. The census was conducted on a monthly basis at two sites in the pine and broadlea...

New-hoof growth is regarded as the most reliable metric for predicting age of newborn ungulates, but variation in estimated age among hoof-growth equations that have been developed may affect estimates of survival in staggered-entry models. We used known-age newborns to evaluate variation in age estimates among existing hoof-growth equations and to determine the consequences of that variation o...