Purpose. To monitor the inflammatory response (IR) following traumatic brain injury (TBI) before and after the rehabilitation of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in rabbits using USPIO- and Gd-enhanced MRI. Materials and Methods. Twenty white big-eared rabbits with mild TBI (mTBI) were randomly and equally divided into four groups. Rabbits were sacrificed for the brain specimens immediately after ...

The quantitative trait loci (QTL) for porcine ear size was previously reported to mainly focus on SSC5 and SSC7. Recently, a missense mutation, G32E, in PPARD in the QTL interval on SSC7 was identified as the causative mutation for ear size. However, on account of the large interval of QTL, the responsible gene on SSC5 has not been identified. In this study, an intercross population was constru...

Abstract Endotherms recently expanding to cold environments generally exhibit strong physiological acclimation sustain high body temperature. During this process, gut microbes likely play a considerable role in host functions, including digestion and thermogenesis. The Light-vented bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis represents one of such species. It used be restricted the Oriental realm, but expanded ...

A 7-year-old, female, red-eared slider turtle was presented with proximal diaphyseal oblique femoral fracture due to falling out of bed. preoperative evaluation computed tomography performed evaluate the anatomy femur. The appropriate implant selection decided upon three-dimensional printed model before plate osteosynthesis. Follow-up time for patient 6 months and functional outcome considered ...

Abstract Cave biodiversity and ecosystems are underexplored. To guide conservation needs for visitor management, we surveyed the 2,158 m long Danial in northern Iran vertebrate fauna. We identified four mammalian two amphibian species cave: greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum , Blasius's blasii lesser mouse-eared myotis Myotis blythii Hyrcanian field mouse Apodemus hyrcanicus wood f...

Three bat species have long been considered to occur within the state of Rajasthan—the Lesser Mouse-Eared Myotis blythii Tomes, 1857, Large Barbastelle Barbastella darjelingensis Hodgson, in Horsfield, 1855 and Serotine Bat Eptesicus serotinus pachyomus 1857. Rajasthan is type locality for two these species—Myotis pachyomus. Despite targeted surveys, bats not observed more than a century half. ...

BACKGROUND Adult individuals of many species kill unrelated conspecific infants for several adaptive reasons ranging from predation or resource competition to the prevention of misdirected parental care. Moreover, infanticide can increase the reproductive success of the aggressor by killing the offspring of competitors and thereafter mating with the victimized females. This sexually selected in...

Transferrins play a major role in iron homeostasis and metabolism. In vertebrates, these proteins are synthesised in the liver and dispersed within the organism by the bloodstream. In oviparous vertebrates additional expression is observed in the oviduct and the synthesised protein is deposited in egg white as ovotransferrin. Most research on ovotransferrin has been performed on the chicken pro...