Although I studied physics and identify peptides in sequence databases was made possible by the Danish mathematics until the master’s level, I always knew that I wanted to get into biology, whose golden age I was sure was happening in my lifetime. When the opportunity came knocking – in the shape of John Fenn, who was spending a sabbatical at the University of Göttingen – I did not hesitate to ...

plug-flow digesters with periodic loading mechanism are more enthusiastic than fully mechanized digestion plants for the majority of small or medium scale farms according to the costs and operational complexities. a dual-compartment plug-flow reactor equipped with a passive heating system was designed and experimentally operated by purpose of demonstrating a simple and low cost technology for ...

objective: asafoetida (ferula assa-foetida) is known as a valuable remedy for whooping cough, pneumonia, bronchitis in children and asthma treatment in folk medicine. in the present study the relaxant effects of the asafoetida on tracheal smooth muscle of guinea pigs and its probable mechanism(s) were examined. materials and methods: the relaxant effects of three cumulative concentrations of th...

Gilts (n = 187) were randomly assigned to either the Hurnik-Morris housing system (HM) or a conventional gestation crate system (GC) prior to breeding. The Hurnik-Morris system provides housing for sows in small groups. Gilts were synchronized for estrus and bred to Duroc Hampshire commercial crossbred boars. Gilts were reared in their respective housing systems through their gestation period. ...

Specific crosses resulting in 305 litters sired by Duroc, Spot or Hampshire boars out of Landrace, Duroc-Landrace or YorkshireLandrace sows were evaluated for preweaning and postweaning performance. Duroc-sired litters were heavier (P<.05) at 21 days postfarrowing than Spotor Hampshiresired litters. Hampshire-sired litters were heavier (P<.05) at birth than Spot-s i red litters. Litters from cr...

Data from 644 exposures and 552 lambings were used to analyze reproductive traits of 1/2-Finnish Landrace, 1/2-Dorset ewes (1/2 Finn); 1/4-Finnish Landrace, 3/4-Dorset ewes, (1/4 Finn) and Dorset ewes. Ewes were exposed to Hampshire or Suffolk rams for spring lambing from 1973 to 1978. The analytical model included fixed effects of ewe birth year (EBY), ewe breed (BR), lambing year within EBY a...

Pig 05049 is a book and research project by Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma that chronicles the many consumer products were made from pig called 05049. The offers an insightful look into how this one animal, single source, provides raw material for vast number of everyday objects. Meindertsma’s clinical presentation each laboriously researched object, page page, organised body part, follow...

BACKGROUND Allergic sensitization and reactions to guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) have been well documented in laboratory animal handlers, primarily manifesting as rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma. Severe allergic reactions, however, are rare. METHODS We report two patients with severe allergic reactions following non-occupational exposure to guinea pigs. The first patient, an 11-year-old f...

attempts to obtain experimental values for the kinetic parameters of phenanthridine oxidation by guinea pig or rabbit liver aldehyde oxidase using common spectrophotometric methods have not been successful due to a lower limit of detection. in the present study, a new spectrofluorimetric assay in combination with a multivariate calibration method for enzymatic kinetic study of aldehyde oxidase ...

introduction: to describe the underlay tympanoplasty technique using an acellular dermal graft(alloderm) for tympanic membrane (tm) reconstruction in a guinea pig model and to demonstrate the feasibility of the technique using alloderm tissue harvested from the prepuce as a source of tissue for future grafting in human tm reconstruction.   materials and methods: the prepuce was divided during c...