To come to a better understanding of the diet-induced cholesterol-ester storage in the gerbil liver, the reactions of the gerbil to 0.2% of cholesterol in the diet during 4 weeks were compared with those of the rat consuming the same diet. The major reason for the increased hepatic cholesterol-ester storage in the cholesterol-fed gerbil is the low cholesterol turnover in this species. This cont...

Gerbil angiotensin II AT(1) receptors have more than 90% amino acid sequence homology with human AT(1) receptors and similar affinity for the natural peptide agonist angiotensin II. However, their binding affinity for the biphenylimidazole AT(1) receptor antagonist losartan is greatly reduced compared with the hAT(1) receptor (400 times lower for the gAT(1A) receptor and 40 times lower for the ...

Cortical development is an active field of study. The gerbil provides an excellent model for research because at the moment of birth its brain is rather immature, anatomically and functionally. Furthermore, the gerbil auditory cortex is particularly amenable to investigation in that the gerbil’s onset of hearing occurs approximately after 14 days of postnatal life. Despite these advantages of t...

Deoxyglucose uptake in peripheral auditory tissues and inferior colliculus of the young CBA or C57BL/6J mouse increases with intensity of an acoustic stimulus from 25 to 85 dBA and decreases from 85 to 115 dBA. In 36-month-old CBA and 9-month-old C57BL with sensorineural hearing loss the metabolic response to stimulation is attenuated 50% or more. Metabolic responses to stimuli are qualitativel...

tal infection of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) with Trichostrongylus axei. J. Parasit. 47 (4, sec. 2 ) : 19. . 1963a. Studies on Trichostrongylus axei (Cobbold, 1879). VIII. Some quantitative aspects of experimental infection of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). J. Parasit. 49: 617-622. . 1963b. Preliminary evaluation of Trichostrongylus axei in the Mongolian gerbil a...

In central Asia, the great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is the main host for the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the cause of bubonic plague. In order to prevent plague outbreaks, monitoring of the great gerbil has been carried out in Kazakhstan since the late 1940s. We use the resulting data to demonstrate that climate forcing synchronizes the dynamics of gerbils over large geographical areas. As it i...

Nonprobability samples have been used frequently in practice including public health study, economics, education, and political polls. Naïve estimates based on nonprobability without any further adjustments may suffer from serious selection bias. Mass imputation has shown to be effective improve the representativeness of samples. It builds an model generates imputed values for all units probabi...

during the period from 1996 to 1997, 45 isolates of leishmania were recovered frompatients suspected of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) and one from a gerbil. these specimens werereceived from various parts of iran. isoenzyme profiles of these isolates were compared with those ofreference strains of l.tropica, l.major and l.infantum using cellulose acetate electrophoresis (cae) and10 enzyme system...

The abundance of genotype data generated by individual and international efforts carries the promise of revolutionizing disease studies and the association of phenotypes with individual polymorphisms. A key challenge is providing an accurate resolution (phasing) of the genotypes into haplotypes. We present here results on a method for genotype phasing in the presence of recombination. Our analy...