lorestan and other part of iran are one of the important endemic focuses for the major zoonotic parasitic diseases like cystic hydatid disease where several species of intermediate host are commonly infected with echinococcus granulosus . meat inspection records in a slaughtered house were used to determine the prevalence of hydatidosis in sheep, cattle, and goats in lorestan province (aleshtar...

conclusions this study indicated a high percentage of cysts bacterial infections in two provinces of iran. the common isolated bacteria were e. coli and klebsiella. the isolated bacteria degenerated the protoscoleces during short-time incubation, in vitro. results infected cysts were found in 74% of animals in hamedan (46% were calcified and the bacteria was isolated from 52%) and 62% in boruje...

Plasma corticosterone concentrations were measured in wild loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in response to acute captivity (capture, serial bleeding, and restraint up to 6 hr). In general, concentrations of corticosterone dramatically increased 1 hr after capture, peaked at 3 hr, and decreased by 6 hr. Initial corticosterone concentrations were significantly lower in animals captured by...

while fasting has been practiced for centuries, its beneficial effects was unknown until recently. this review tries to analyze the current literature of how fasting and intermittent fasting (if) could affect clinical pathological parameters, learning, mood and brain plasticity. the effects of different ways of fasting on metabolism and stress were also explored. animal experiments have elucida...

purpose: to evaluate the effects of silver nanoparticles on some serum parameters in mice. materials and methods: forty mice, including twenty male and twenty female, were randomly divided into eight groups: c1 and c2 (male and female control groups, respectively), t1, t2 and t3 (male treatment groups), t4, t5 and t6 (female treatment groups). after the acclimatization period, the treatment gro...

background: fasciolosis is a well known parasitic disease of animals with public health importance. in rasht and bandar-an­zali, in gilan province, where experienced two large human fasciolosis outbreaks, no update information is available on ani­mal fasciolosis. paucity of information on animal fasciolosis in these regions and its possible impacts on human fasciolo­sis called us for carrying o...

CHEN-PING FU: ANALYSIS OF ADMIXED ANIMALS USING INDIRECT HAPLOTYPE INFORMATION FROM EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES. (Under the direction of Leonard McMillan.) The use of genotyping and sequencing technologies in genetic studies typically involves inspecting variants defined within a single reference genome. While this definition of genetic variation promotes a simple model of the genome that is easy to ...