Recent findings suggest that mammalian amniotic fluid (AF) is a source of multipotent stem cells (SCs), which can be used in regenerative medicine and assisted reproduction. We report the isolation, culture and characterization of amniotic fluid-derived cells from pregnant water buffalo uterus. These undifferentiated AF cells expanded without feeder layer over a period of 100 days up to passage...

Guy Salama and Glenna C. L. Bett Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Center for Cellular and Systems Electrophysiology, University at Buffalo, State Univ...

BACKGROUND Understanding the epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), including roles played by different hosts, is essential for improving disease control. The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a reservoir for the SAT serotypes of FMD virus (FMDV). Large buffalo populations commonly intermingle with livestock in Kenya, yet earlier studies have focused on FMD in the domestic livestock, ...

objective: the aim of the present study was to evaluate three thawing rates on the post thaw motility, viability and chromatin structure of buffalo semen frozen in 0.5-ml straws. materials and methods: in this experimental study semen was collected with artificial vagina (42˚c) from four buffalo bulls.split pooled ejaculates (n=4) were extended at 37˚c with a bioxcell® extender. semen was coole...

Buffalo-adapted Theileria parva causes Corridor disease in cattle. Strict control measures therefore apply to the movement of buffalo in South Africa and include mandatory testing of buffalo for the presence of T. parva. The official test is a real-time hybridization PCR assay that amplifies the V4 hypervariable region of the 18S rRNA gene of T. parva, T. sp. (buffalo) and T. sp. (bougasvlei). ...

To define the best strategies for genomic association studies and genomic selection, it is necessary to determine the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) and the genetic structure of the study population. The current study evaluated the transference of genomic information contained in the Illumina BovineHD BeadChip from cattle to buffaloes, and assessed the extent of the LD in buffaloes. Of t...

The aim of this study was to define the microbiota of water buffalo milk during sub-clinical and clinical mastitis, as compared to healthy status, by using high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. A total of 137 quarter samples were included in the experimental design: 27 samples derived from healthy, culture negative quarters, with a Somatic Cell Count (SCC) of less than 200,000 cells/...

ID: 2645 Mostafa Sabbaghi Graduate Research Assistant Industrial and Systems Engineering Department University at Buffalo, State University of New York Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA [email protected] Sara Behdad Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering Department University at Buffalo, State University of New York Buffalo, NY, 14260,...

1 Medical Physics Group, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology I, Jena University Hospital Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany 2 Department of Neurology, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA 3 MR Imaging Clinical Translational Research Center, School of...