BACKGROUND Umbilical cord blood analysis may give a clue to the state of health of both pregnant mothers and their neonates. However, there is paucity of literature on some of these indices from our area. OBJECTIVES This present study determined the red blood indices of maternal and umbilical cord blood in Owerri, Nigeria. METHODS Pregnant mothers aged 18 - 42 years who booked and received ...

Haemodilution in nine neonates resulted in significant mean (SEM) decrease of packed cell volume (0.67 (0.01) to 0.55 (0.01)) and increases in cardiac output (250 (16) to 308 (25) ml/min/kg) and blood flow velocities of the internal carotid artery and the coeliac artery (+20%). However, red cell flows in the aorta, carotid and coeliac arteries did not change during haemodilution, thereby indica...

Gruneberg, 1942; Meyerstein, 1942; Smith, 1944; Harris, Gilding, and Smart, 1951 ; Sabine and Nickolai, 1952) and those open at both ends (Gram and Norgaard, 1923; Van Allen, 1925a and b; Guest, 1938 ; Kato, 1938 and 1940; Miller, 1939 Hamre, 1940; Benditt, Straube, and Humphreys, 1946; Shils, Sass, and Goldwater, 1952). All these tubes suffer from drawbacks either in design or method of use. A...

Worm infection is one of the main factors responsible for economic losses in sheep breeding in Brazil. Random regression analysis was used to estimate genetic parameters for the factors faecal egg-count (FEC), packed-cell volume (PCV) and body weight (BW) in Santa Inês lambs. Data from 119 female, offspring of nine rams, were collected between December, 2005 and December, 2006, from the experim...

The efficacy of repeated doses of Dinazene® in Albino rats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei (Gboko strain) was investigated. A total of 30 adult female Albino rats weighing 130-190 g were used for the study. They were assigned to six groups (groups A-F) of five rats each. Groups A-D were infected intraperitoneally with 1.0 × 106 trypanosomes in 400 μL of PBS diluted blood while g...