ABSTRACT Hamster breeding is becoming increasingly popular, mainly because of the simplicity breeding, low cost, and characteristics these animals: they are small, quiet, do not require a large space. Because this ease keeping, some people choose to keep more than one animal same species in single enclosure. In cases, sociability can lead fights, hamsters extremely territorial animals, which ca...

the objective of this study was to investigate fungal flora of the hair coat of domestic golden hamsterswith and without skin lesions. sixty hamsters were examined in the small animal teaching hospitalof the faculty of veterinary medicine, ferdowsi university of mashhad, and mashhad, iran. asteriletoothbrush was used for sample collection, from the entire body of the hamsters, all skin lesions ...

Idiopathic cardiomyopathy in hamsters can cause death due to cardiac failure. The current case study investigated the capability of imaging reveal possible a dead hamster. To this end, cadaver 6-month-old male Roborovski dwarf hamster, which showed acute respiratory symptoms few days before its death, was examined by virtopsy discover death. Postmortem radiography not efficient enough evaluate ...

a 2-year-old male hamster was presented because of left facial swelling and salivation. necropsy wasperformed and affected cheek pouch with tissue samples of regional and internal organs were submitted forhistopathological study. in histopathological examination it was found that the tumor consisted of cords andislands of tumoric epithelial cells which were diffused in the dermis. vacoulation o...

a major function of the enterocytes is absorption, processing, and export of dietary lipids into the lymphatic system. pluronic l-81 is a non-ionic hydrophobic surfactant, which specifically inhibits lipid absorption in the intestine when administered in vivo. this compound is therefore an attractive probe to perturb and investigate the molecular and intracellular events in chylomicron assembly...

background infertility is a serious social problem in advanced nations, with male factor in half of all cases of infertility. this study was conducted to determine the regenerative effect of bone marrow-derived stem cells in spermatogenesis of infertile hamster. methods twelve adult male hamsters were equally divided into azoospermic and control groups. busulfan was intraperitoneally used for i...

in a sand-fly survey, conducted for two years (1992-93) in ghirkarzjn, fars province a total of 1020 female phlebotomus keshishiani were dissected, of which 12 females were found to have promastigotes. promastigotes of six pb. keshishiani were inoculated to six hamsters and one hamster became infected, amastigotes were observed in the spleen, but the culture of parasite was not possible due to ...

Syrian hamster embryo fibroblasts transformed in vitro with benzo(a)pyrene were analyzed for the presence of type C viral components, including extra- and intracellular reverse transcriptase activity, intracellular type C hamster virus-related RNA, and cellular hamster virus group-specific antigen. No evidence could be obtained for the presence of any of these components, although they were eas...

The aim of the work was to study pathogenicity newly emerging variants SARS-CoV-2 on model Syrian golden hamster. Materials and methods . We used strains virus related VOC circulating in territory Russian Federation. experiments were carried out outbreed hamsters obtained from nursery SSC VB “Vector”. infectious titer coronavirus tissue samples collected infected laboratory animals determined a...