objective(s): atherosclerosis is the main leading cause of cardiovascular diseases. the purpose of this study was to assess the potential preventive effect of egg yolk hdl on the atherosclerosis plaque formation. materials and methods: thirty rabbits were divided into five groups: a; normal diet, b; hyper-cholesterolemic diet, c; hypercholesterolemic + 400 mg/kg egg yolk hdl d; hypercholesterol...

background : the aim of the current study was to develop a marking technique as an internal marker to mark post blood meal mosquitoes by using stable phosphate isotope 32 p and determine the optimal concentration of it. methods : an isotonic physiological saline solution, containing different concentration of radioactive isotope 32 p-labeled disodium phosphate (na 2 h 32 po4) was injected into ...

eighteen primiparous rabbit does comprising of six per breed of new zealand white (nzw), chinchilla (cc) and dutch belted (db). they were randomly allocated to three rebreeding interval groups of 7, 14 and 21 days postpartum. three breeding males, one per breed were used giving a total of 21 rabbits. significant (p

despite of beneficial effects of antibiotics in treatments of infectious diseases, antibiotic residues in meat, milk, eggs and another products can cause serious side effects for human health. it is clear that, antibiotic residues in food stuff, cause bacterial resistance, allergic reactions, toxicity, carcinogenic effects and change of natural micro flora of intestine in consumers. so, the aim...

background cartilage tissue has limited regenerative capacity and the management of cartilage defects has always been a challenging issue. platelet-rich plasma (prp) has been recently been used to improve healing of cartilage defects. in the present experiment, we aimed to investigate the effects of prp on regeneration capacity as well as survival of the cartilage grafts in a rabbit model. meth...

background: the presence of antibacterial drug residues in food caused many concerns for consumers. this study was designed to determine of antibacterial drug residues in commercial eggs distributed in urmia, iran.  methods: disc diffusion microbial inhibition test was performed using three media seeded with bacillus subtilis at different ph values (6, 7.2 or 8) and a fourth medium seeded with ...

Rabbit farming is a powerful source of dietary meat, rabbit fluff, and skins. The research was conducted at the farm Precarpathian State Agricultural Research Station Institute Agriculture Carpathian Region National Academy Agrarian Sciences. article describes creation new highly productive genetic populations rabbits identified as best options for crossing maternal paternal forms. Three breeds...

Ione Fine is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She studied Experimental Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford, and did her PhD with Robert Jacobs at Rochester, NY. She then fell in love with a Californian, so she moved to the University of California, San Diego to do a post-doc with Donald MacLeod and Karen Dobkins. After a brief spell at Second Sight Medi...

background and aims: methotrexate (mtx), a folic acid antagonist, is widely used as a treatment for malignancies as well as in the treatment of various inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. nephrotoxicity is an important side-effect of this drug. prevention and treatment of mtx-induced renal dysfunction are essential to prevent potentially life-threatening mtx-associated toxicities, present st...

surgical wound infections are usually encountered due to the endogenous rather than the exogenousinfective sources. the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a distant inoculated infective source on the contamination of surgical wounds. thirty white new zealand rabbits divided randomly into three control and three treatment equal groups. in treatment groups 24 hrs before surgica...