A second nonstructural protein of the Aleutian disease parvovirus was predicted from nucleotide sequence analysis and a detailed transcription map. Western immunoblotting analysis showed that infected mink and ferrets show an antibody response to this predicted protein.

The domestic ferret, Mustela (putorius) furo, is a highly inbred animal that is extremely popular as a pet. In the past 10 years, there has been a large increase in the number of pet ferrets available in pet stores in the United States. Predominantly they are from one commercial breeder, but there are other commercial breeders and small, individual breeders as well. Most of the diseases discuss...

Early monocular enucleations were done in rats, either at embryonic day 16 (E16) or on the day of birth, and the surviving uncrossed pathway was studied either at birth for some of the animals enucleated prenatally, or in the adult for all of the other animals. The uncrossed pathways were studied by using HRP as a retrograde tracer. The neonatal enucleations showed the increase of the surviving...