The liver is an organ, which defies investigation in several ways. It is hidden in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen and away from other viscera in a "secret cave". Being a large organ, it presents problems in the localisation of lesions, particularly in the depth of the lobe. Further, its several functions are not affected to the same extent in disease. It also has a large reserve capaci...

Some dyes are excreted almost exclusively by the liver and the rate of their elimination from the circulating blood is used as a test of certain aspects of hepatic function in man. Rose bengal is one of these dyes,""a"' and the test in which it is used is similar to the better known procedure utilizing bromsulphalein. Clearance of rose bengal from the blood is known to be retarded in hepatic di...

The Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) subregion 53, Bay of Bengal (Fig. 1) includes the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem (BOBLME) (1), and associated watersheds. The nations of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka are all in the Bay of Bengal Subregion (BOBSR). The major land area of India, a relatively minor part of Indonesia (eastern Sumatra), western Pen...

Microplastic (MPs) contamination has emerged as a serious worldwide issue. Human activity, commercial enterprises, and fishing are concentrated around the seashore, causing high levels of MPs in coastal marine organisms. When it comes to their vulnerability ingestion, sharks least studied organism. The objective this study is investigate accumulation collected from Southeast Indian zone (Bay Be...

Full-grown adults or immature worms (larvae) of the genus Gnathostoma (Nematoda) have been recorded in man since 1889, and up to 1934, twenty-one cases were published including the two cases from Bengal reported by Maplestone (1929) and by Datta and Maplestone (1930). These twenty-one cases have been listed by Prommas and Daengsvang (1934) in this journal. The third case from Bengal was reporte...

Clinically healthy adult black Bengal female goats were used to investigate the pharmacokinetics of closantel following intravenous administration (10 mg/kg) both in healthy and in liver damaged goats. Induction of liver damage was done by subcutaneous injection of carbontetrachloride at 0.75 mL/kg on three occasion at 48 h interval. After administration of drug, blood samples were collected in...

This study was conducted to assess the physical and morphological characteristics of fresh, pre-freeze and post-thaw black Bengal buck (Capra hircus) semen processed in Tris-egg yolk-citrate-fructose-glycerol (TEYCFG) extender containing 4 different concentrations (2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10%) of egg-yolk. Ejaculates were collected once a week for eight weeks from six mature bucks (48 ejaculates) using...

Saibal Ray, P. C. Ray, Partha Pratim Ghosh, Utpal Mukhopadhyay and Partha Chowdhury Department of Physics, Barasat Government College, North 24 Parganas, Kolkata 700 124, India & Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India; [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, Kolkata 7...

Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal has recently been identified as a cause of epidemic cholera in Asia. In contrast to V. cholerae O1, V. cholerae O139 Bengal has a polysaccharide capsule. As determined by high-performance anion-exchange chromatography and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance analysis, the capsular polysaccharide of V. cholerae O139 Bengal strain Al1837 has six residues in the repeating subu...

The gastrointestinal (GI) habitat of ruminant and non-ruminant animals sustains a vast ensemble of microbes that are capable of utilizing lignocellulosic plant biomass. In this study, an indigenous swine (Zovawk) and a domesticated goat (Black Bengal) were investigated to isolate bacteria having plant biomass degrading enzymes. After screening and enzymatic quantification of eighty-one obtained...