Rabbits immunized with partially purified guinea pig serum and guinea pig liver L-asparaginases produced precipitating antibodies to the homologous enzymes. Antisera to guinea pig serum L-asparaginase precipitated the guinea pig liver and agouti serum L-asparaginases but did not crossreact with Escherichia coli B L-asparaginase. Conversely, antisera to guinea pig liver L-asparaginase precipitat...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the variation in response to space allocation between barrows and gilts and to examine an alternative allocation regimen for barrows and gilts. Experimental space allocations in both experiments were achieved by varying the number of pigs per pen in a fully slatted facility. In Exp. 1, barrows were given 0.58 and 0.65 m2/pig (nine and eight pigs per p...

We propose an optimal system for determining the shipping schedule pigs using a predictive model machine learning based on big data. This receives photographic and weight measurement information each pig from camera weighing installed in pen raising corresponding to predetermined fattening period. Then, of these is applied machine-learned advance determine whether or not there are candidate pre...

Page Title 1 Overview − hierarchical models 2 Calf mortality data 3 Hierarchical regression models 4 Hierarchical survival models: general approaches 5 Calf mortality data: multi-level Cox model 6 Methods for hierarchical Cox models 7 Pig lameness data 8 Pig data: hypothesis and first results 9 Pig data: Cox random slope models 10 Pig data: parametric models 11 Proportional hazards revisited 12...

Until now, no research has been carried out in Croatia into consumer preferences for a particular agricultural and food product by choice experiment. Therefore, little data are available about Croatian consumers' social concerns (sustainability, biodiversity, rural development animal welfare) with regard to the behavior favoring local pig breeds, this case Black Slavonian Pig breed. A survey wa...

BACKGROUND In Thailand, pig production intensified significantly during the last decade, with many economic, epidemiological and environmental implications. Strategies toward more sustainable future developments are currently investigated, and these could be informed by a detailed assessment of the main trends in the pig sector, and on how different production systems are geographically distrib...

Animal models are important tools to predict human in vivo percutaneous absorption/penetration. Monkey, pig, rat, rabbit, guinea pig, hairless rodents, such as hairless rat, hairless mouse, hairless guinea pig and hairless dog, are among the most used animals for this purpose. Each animal model has its own advantages and weakness or limitation. To better correlate animal data with human skin ab...

A full-length cDNA to guinea pig pulmonary surfactant protein (SP) A was cloned by screening a newborn guinea pig lung cDNA library with a human SP-A cDNA probe. The full-length guinea pig SP-A cDNA consists of 1,839 bp and is highly conserved at both nucleotide and amino acid sequence levels with those from other species. As expected, guinea pig SP-A mRNA is abundantly expressed in adolescent ...

This is a joint work with Andro Mikelić (University of Lyon 1, France), Josip Tambača (University of Zagreb, Croatia), Giovanna Guidoboni (University of Houston, USA), Dr. Craig Hartley (Baylor College of Medicine, USA), Dr. Doreen Rosenstrauch (Texas Heart Institute and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA), and Dr. Z. Krajcer (Texas Heart Institute and St. Luke’s Epis...

This study presents the first list of fish species from Madagascar Reef, Campeche Bank, Gulf of México. Field surveys and literature review identified 54 species belonging to 8 orders, 30 families and 43 genera, comprising both conspicuous and cryptic fishes. Species richness was lower at this reef site compared to reefs in the Mexican Caribbean, Veracruz or Tuxpan, but was similar to other ree...