Notwithstanding a century of prohibition, marijuana is the most widely used illicit substance in Canada. Due to the growing public acceptance of recreational marijuana use and ineffectiveness of the existing control system in Canada, the issue surrounding legalizing this illicit drug has received considerable public and political attentions in recent years. Consequently, the newly elected Liber...

8 Authors 9 10 Clair, J.M., Anderson-Reid, J.M., Graham, C.M. , and Collins D.F. 1,2 11 12 13 Affiliations 14 15 1 Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 16 2 Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 17 Alberta, Canada 18 19 Contact Information 20 Correspondence: David F. Collins 21 Address: 6-41 General Services Building,...

7 8 Pregnancy-Induced Remodelling of Heart Valves 9 10 Caitlin M. Pierlot, Andrew D. Moeller, J. Michael Lee, and Sarah M. Wells 11 12 School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada 13 Department of Applied Oral Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada 14 15 Corresponding Author: 16 17 Sarah M. Wells 18 School of Biomedical Engineering 19 Dalhousie Univer...

We opportunistically evaluated a combination of acepromazine maleate and medetomidine HCl for use in sedating Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) and black bears (Ursus americanus) as an alternative to scheduled drug combinations. This combination was safe and effective with limitations inherent in its sedative rather than anesthetic properties.

The high incidence of Stereotypie behaviors in zoo bears (van Keulen-Kromhout: International Zoo Yearbook 18:177-186, 1978) suggests that the environment of these animals lacks essential stimuli for guiding normal behavior. Three experiments investigated ways in which bear husbandry procedures can be altered to promote normal behavior. In experiments 1 and 2, honey-filled logs were given to a s...

93 *To whom correspondence and reprints requests should be addressed. Tel and Fax: 886-4-22206317. E-mail: [email protected] The Formosan black bear (Ursus thibetanus formosanus) belonging to the family Ursidae is distributed in the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan from broadleaf forests as low as 200 m to coniferous forests as high as 3500 m (Hwang et al. 2000, Chang et al. 2004). Fi...

Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 11 12 13 14 15 16 * Corresponding author. Mailing Address: Department of Physics, University of Guelph, 50 Stone 17 Rd. E, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1. Phone: (519) 824-4120. Fax: (519) 836-9967. Email: 18 [email protected] 19 AC CE PT ED Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved....

Authors and addresses: 5 Isaac Kurtzer, J. Andrew Pruszynski, and Stephen H. Scott 6 Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Department of Anatomy & 7 Cell Biology, and Department of Medicine 8 Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6 9 10 Corresponding author: 11 Isaac Kurtzer, Ph.D. 12 Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Botterell Hall Rm 232 13 Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6 14...

Tight junction protein gene expression patterns and changes in transcript 2" abundance during development of model fish gill epithelia 3" 4" 5" Dennis Kolosov*, Helen Chasiotis and Scott P. Kelly. 6" 7" Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3 Canada 8" 9" 10" *Corresponding Author: 11" 12" Dennis Kolosov 13" Department of Biology 14" York University 15" 4700 Keele St 16" To...