It is a matter of great pleasure for me to extend, on behalf of the ICAR and on my personal behalf, a warm welcome to all, especially to our very distinguished delegates who have traveled from various parts of the world to participate in the Conference. I am glad to share with you that the Conference is being held at a time when our Central Institute on Buffalo Research has completed 25 years o...

Two different immunosensors, recently developed for the determination of antibacterial proteins (lactoferrin and immunoglobulin G) in buffalo milk and in other commercial animal milks samples, were used in the present study. The aim was to propose these immunosensor methods for routine control of important diet products, such as cow and goat milks, and in particular buffalo milk. To this end we...

1Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA 2Translational Pharmacology Research Core, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicot Street, Buffalo, NY 14302, USA 3Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics, Clinical and Translati...

Effects of method of drying beef and buffalo meat and storage time on quality were investigated. Six treatments were applied: drying beef with salt (B1), drying beef without salt (B2), drying beef with salt and spices (B3), drying buffalo meat with salt (B4), without salt (B5) and with salt and spices (B6). Taste and smell of all samples were acceptable up to 120 days of storage. The dry matter...

–SDS – Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS PAGE) of blood plasma from three cattle and one buffalo affected with various tumors (odontoma, nasal granuloma and horn cancer in cattle and teat tumor in buffalo) revealed the presence of new proteins p51, p53 and p71-72 in all the samples which were not present in plasma from normal healthy bovines. However, another protein, p77.5 present in nor...

O O F High level information fusion for tracking and projection of multistage cyber attacks Shanchieh J. Yang *, Adam Stotz , Jared Holsopple , Moises Sudit , Michael Kuhl d a Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, 83 Lomb Memorial Dr., Rochester, NY 14623, USA b Information Fusion Division, Calspan-UB Research Center, 4455 Genesee Street, Buffalo, NY 14225, USA ...

The substitution of high priced meat with low cost ones and the fraudulent labeling of meat products make the identification and traceability of meat species and their processed products in the food chain important. A polymerase chain reaction followed by a High Resolution Melting (HRM) analysis was developed for species specific detection of buffalo; it was applied in six commercial meat produ...

The present study was conducted to investigate the existence of polymorphism at Kappa-casein (κ-CN) locus in the Nili-Ravi buffalo. A PCR-RFLP method was used to distinguish buffalo κ-CN alleles. The genotypes were confirmed through specific, clearly distinguishable DNA band pattern resulting from digestion with three selected restriction enzymes (HinfI, HaeIII and MaeII). Analysis of 163 anima...

The rheological properties and microstructure of buffalo yoghurt were investigated and compared to bovine yoghurt. Buffalo yoghurt exhibited a greater degree of thixotropy and a higher level of syneresis. These differences can be linked to the underlying microstructure of the yoghurt, which is more porous and contains bigger fat globules compared to bovine yoghurt. This study shows how milk pro...