Immunosuppressive activity of conditioned medium from cultured ovine, caprine, and hybrid trophoblast tissue was examined. Conceptuses were obtained from naturally mated donor ewes and does at d 20 of gestation and trophoblast tissue was cultured for 24 h in medium supplemented with 15% calf serum and 1% antibiotic/antimycotic. Conditioned medium was added to pokeweed mitogen-stimulated sheep a...

Italiano. Si è analizzata la selezione dell’ausiliare da parte dei verbi intransitivi, all’interno di un gruppo di neologismi italiani. I verbi studiati sono stati tratti da elenchi di neologismi disponibili online. Si è quindi verificata la loro presenza e il loro comportamento sul corpus itTenTen. Tali verbi hanno dimostrato una evidente preferenza per l’ausiliare avere. English. We analyzed ...

Caffeine increases false memory in nonhabitual consumers Caroline R. Mahoney a b , Tad T. Brunyé a b , Grace E. Giles a b , Tali Ditman a c , Harris R. Lieberman d & Holly A. Taylor a a Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA b US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Natick, MA, USA c Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Athin...

Riassunto: L’analisi di dati simbolici generalizza alcuni metodi statistici standard al caso di oggetti simbolici (SO). Questi oggetti, informalmente definiti “dati aggregati”, poiché sintetizzano le informazioni relative ad un gruppo di individui, possono essere confrontati al fine di individuare dei cluster, di classificarli o ordinarli in base al loro grado di generalizzazione. L’articolo pr...

The main purpose of this study was to assess participation of rural women in goat rearing. Pakulla union under Sonatola upazila of Bogra district in Bangladesh was the locale of the study. All the rural goat rearing farm family women heads of Pakulla union constituted the population of the study. Data were collected from a sample of 100 women heads selected randomly during15 December 2008 to 14...

This study was conducted to evaluate changes in composition of whey proteins of Czech White Short-haired goat and East Friesian ewe milk and their comparison throughout lactation. Some differences in composition between ewe and goat milk were found. The results showed that the mean total protein (%), whey protein (g/100 g), and β-lactoglobulin (β-Lg, g/100 g) contents of goat milk were 2.75, 0....

AIM In Sultanate of Oman, goats are considered as one of the most important livestock in which there are many breeds of goat such as Batinah, Jabali, Dhofari, Jabal Al-Akhdar, Sahrawi, and Sahrawi Musandam. Little hematological and biochemical information is known on Omani goat breeds; therefore, the main purpose of this study was to determine reference baseline data regarding hematological and...

The genetic diversity and phylogenetic structure was analyzed in Marghoz goat population by mitochondrial DNA sequences. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out using hyper variable region 1 (968 bp) obtained form 40 animals. Marghoz goat proved to be extremely diverse (average haplotype diversity of 0.999) and the nucleotide diversity values 0.022. A total of 40 Marghoz goats were grouped into s...

A 9-year-old nonpregnant, nonlactating doe Boer goat was examined because of a 2-day history of not being able to stand. Other than diarrhea associated with coccidiosis in the first year of life, the goat did not have a history of illness. The owner had obtained the goat at approximately 2 months of age. The goat lived with 3 other goats in the same pen on the same premise located on the coasta...

The objective of the study was to evaluate the use of goat ileum preparation for the estimation of unknown concentration of acetylcholine by three point bioassay. The graded doses of acetylcholine have shown dose dependent increase in contraction of isolated goat ileum. The responses obtained by this tissue preparation were similar to those with guinea pig ileum preparation. The goat ileum can ...