Rabbit meat is a component of traditional diets, often incorporated into iconic dishes regional cuisine. Its consumption can be traced back to the ancient civilisations Mediterranean and beyond, well Palaeolithic era. Even though it has been representing considerable nutritional cultural value for millennia, decline in now noticeable. Specific categorial dynamics are at play, related various su...

A novel, recombinant myxoma virus-rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) vaccine has been developed for the prevention of myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD). A number of laboratory studies are described illustrating the safety and efficacy of the vaccine following subcutaneous administration in laboratory rabbits from four weeks of age onwards. In these studies, both vaccinated...

A 32 year old male research physician accidentally received a minor wound from a needle which had been previously used on rabbit tissue. Within 15 minutes serious anaphylactic reactions started and he was taken to hospital where his condition stabilised within five hours. Serum immunoglobulin E antibodies to rabbit epithelium were high (16.2 U/ml), although other antibody titres were low. Aller...

Forty-three strains of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated from children with gastroenteritis and 18 laboratory strains were examined for enterotoxin production by using the infant mouse, Y1 adrenal cell, and rabbit ileal loop assay systems. All clinical isolates and seven laboratory strains were found enterotoxigenic in the infant mouse model, but none of the strains produced toxin in the Y1 adre...

Although the laboratory rabbit has long contributed to many paradigmatic studies in biology and medicine, it is often considered to be a "classical animal model" because in the last 30 years, the laboratory mouse has been more often used, thanks to the availability of embryonic stem cells that have allowed the generation of gene knockout (KO) animals. However, recent genome-editing strategies h...

One of the problems incident to the successful transplantation of embryonic tissue concerns the status of the transplant in relation to the constitu tion of the host. Variations in susceptibility to in fectious agents offer a convenient measure of con stitutional difference and have been employed for this purpose in the study of homologous trans plants in immunologically altered hosts as well a...

The ethical dilemmas of using animals as in vivo models preclinical and clinical examinations have been increasingly present recent decades. Small laboratory (rats, rabbits) will continue to be used because they are cost-effective permit the formation statistically testable cohort groups; a task that, for financial, maintenance care reasons, is almost prohibitive larger animals. Technological a...

Trophoblast stem (TS) cells are ideal models to investigate trophectoderm differentiation and placental development. Herein, we describe the derivation of rabbit trophoblast stem cells from embryonic stem (ES) cells. Rabbit ES cells generated in our laboratory were induced to differentiate in the presence of BMP4 and TS-like cell colonies were isolated and expanded. These cells expressed the mo...