Page 725 Adult butterflies are capable of associative learning that serves foraging flowers or finding oviposition sites. In experimental paradigms, they learn to extend their proboscis in response to floral orders associated with a sugar reward or to avoid them if paired with bitter substances. Such settings have been used to elucidate the neuronal circuitry and mechanisms underlying the afore...

  Background: Achillea talagonica (Asteraceae) is an endemic herbaceous plant in Iran with small yellow flowers and several times pinnately divided leaves in worm shape. The plant was found to be cytotoxic in our previous studies.   Materials and Methods: A. talagonica was collected in May 2005 from Talegan in north of Iran during the full flowering stage. Dried aerial parts of the plant were r...

This study was aimed to investigate the infection of internal parasites Dentex macrophthalmus in Syrian marine coastal waters. A total 409 individuals were collected from Ras Al-Basit north Tartus south following research stations: Al-Basit, different areas along Lattakia beach, Jableh and Tartous, during period January 2019 December 2020.
 The organs (stomach, intestine body cavity) all f...

Following on from our studies on the potential use of tannins to control intestinal parasites in small ruminants we recently conducted two further trials to investigate the effect of a wattle tannin oral drench (WT), or supplementation of the diet with acacia (AMS), on faecal egg counts (FEC) and worm burdens of growing tropical Black Head Persian (BHP) sheep with an experimental intestinal nem...

Figure 1. Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT scan showing a long tubular filling defect (arrow) in the jejunum Figure 2. Contrast-enhanced abdominal and pelvic CT scan showing a long tubular filling defect (arrow) in the jejunum Diagnosis: Partial small bowel obstruction due to intestinal ascariasis. Multiple tubular-shaped filling defects in the jejunum were seen on CT scan, consistent with ascari...

BACKGROUND The Brugia malayi Bm-103 and Bm-RAL-2 proteins are orthologous to Onchocerca volvulus Ov-103 and Ov-RAL-2, and which were selected as the best candidates for the development of an O. volvulus vaccine. The B. malayi gerbil model was used to confirm the efficacy of these Ov vaccine candidates on adult worms and to determine whether their combination is more efficacious. METHODOLOGY A...

Dispersion or dilution of stool by water from heavy rainfall may affect Strongyloides stercoralis free-living development producing infective filariform larvae (FL). This study examined effect of water dilution of stool on survival of S. stercoralis free-living development. One g of stool was prepared in water so that its soluble component was diluted sequentially from 1:2 to 1:480. Three dishe...

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Trichinosis is a parasitic zoonosis caused by the nematode Trichinella spiralis. Anthelmintics are used to eliminate intestinal adults as well as tissue-migrating and encysted larvae. This study aimed to investigate the effects of ivermectin and myrrh obtained from the aloe-gum resin of Commiphora molmol on experimental trichinosis. Ninety albino mice were orally infected with 300 T. spiralis l...