ABSTRACT Rabbit farming is an activity with high growth potential due to its easy handling, prolificacy, low polluting impact, and adaptability family systems, producing meat of biological value. Therefore, the aim this work was evaluate, using von Bertalanffy's nonlinear model, curves weight as a function age in ‘Flemish Giant Rabbits’ ‘New Zealand White’ crossbred rabbits. Two different data ...

This paper describes a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method with selected ion monitoring (SIM) for determination of metoprolol in rabbit plasma. Metoprolol and internal standard (IS) atenolol were extracted from plasma and cleaned up by using a single step liquid-liquid extraction. Derivatization was carried out using N-Methyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide (MSTFA). Calibra...

The TBC1D1 plays a key role in body energy homeostasis by regulating the insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in skeletal muscle. The present study aimed to identify the association between genetic polymorphisms of TBC1D1 and body weight (BW) in rabbits. Among the total of 12 SNPs detected in all 20 exons, only one SNP was non-synonymous (c.214G>A. p.G72R) located in exon 1. c.214G>A was subsequen...

Rabbits have been used extensively as a model system for the elucidation of the mechanism of immunoglobulin diversification and for the production of antibodies. We employed Next Generation Sequencing to analyze Ig germline V and J gene usage, CDR3 length and amino acid composition, and gene conversion frequencies within the functional (transcribed) IgG repertoire of the New Zealand white rabbi...

The objective of this study was to assess the utility of the magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) technique used for improving characteristics and quality of insemination doses by the elimination ofapoptotic rabbit spermatozoa from a heterospermic pool (Experiment 1) as well as from the ejaculates of individual bucks (Experiment 2). Superparamagnetic microbeads conjugated with annexin V elimi...

background: the mechanisms underlying cerebral hypercapnic vasodilatation are not fully understood.   objective: to investigate the role of nitric oxide (no) and atp-sensitive potassium (k atp ) channels in basal blood flow regulation and hypercapnia-induced vasodilatation in rabbit cerebral blood vessels.   methods: the change in cerebral blood flow was measured by a laser doppler flowmeter in...

Efficiency of the New Zealand white rabbit as a host for infecting larval Ixodes dammini, I. pacificus, and I. ricinus with Lyme disease spirochetes was evaluated. Rabbits inoculated with infected midgut suspensions of I. dammini from Shelter Island, New York, or fed upon by infected ticks from the same area, responded with spirochetemias of sufficient concentrations to infect as many as 30 per...

background: this study was undertaken to examine the reversibility of renal injury in the male new zealand white rabbits sub­se­quent to a 90-days exposure to uranyl nitrate (un) in drinking water. animals were exposed for 90 days to uranyl ni­trate in their drinking water (24 or 500mg/l). control group were given municipal tap water. methods: the indicators of kidney function measured in this ...

Importance The rabbit is the primary animal model used to investigate aspects of nasal surgery. Although several studies have used this model, none has provided a comprehensive analysis of the surgical anatomy and techniques used to gain access to the rabbit nasal fossae and septum. Objective To describe and optimize the surgical anatomy and approach to the rabbit nasal vault and septal carti...

White Lies (Rotberg, 2013) is an Aotearoa New Zealand film, which was adapted to screen from a novella written by Witi Ihimaera (Ihimaera, 2013). My review discusses the film storyline, whilst highlighting social and cultural conflict between Indigenous Māori population European settlers. Directed Mexican filmmaker Dana Rotberg, addresses colonial oppression in during early twentieth century fo...