this study was conducted to investigate the hair production and fleece characteristics of hairy goats according to the sex and age of animals. the material of the study consisted one total data of 73 hair goats, which were between more than one year-old and one year-old lori goats from both sexes (26 males and 47 females). the overall fleece weight, fiber length, lock length, washing yield, hai...

Stem/progenitor cells are promising candidates for a therapy of renal failure. However, sound knowledge about implantation and regeneration is lacking. Therefore, mechanisms leading from stem/progenitor cells into tubules are under research. Renal stem/progenitor cells were isolated from neonatal rabbit kidney and mounted between layers of polyester fleece. It creates an artificial interstitium...

The influence of level of nutrition during pre-natal and early post-natal life on adult body weight a.nd wool growth has been studied. Low levels of nutrition during pre-natal life were associated with reductions in mature body weight (c. 9 per cent.) fleece growth (c. 15 per cent.) and total number of follicles per sheep (c. 8.5 per cent.). Low levels of intake between birth and 16 weeks resul...

regions on three ovine chromosomes (oar1, oar5 and oar25) were selected to study quantitative trait loci (qtl) segregating for wool traits in baluchi sheep. a total of 503 progeny from 13 half-sib families were genotyped for 15 microsatellite markers. the average number of progeny per sire was 38 and ranged between 16 and 59. data were collected from research centre on baluchi breed in 2009 and...

the Old Fleece Inn. The original building in which Jenner and his friends met is now a private residence Hillgrove House on the A46 (Figure 1). Two of the five members founding the Fleece Medical Society, Edward Jenner of Berkeley and John Hickes of Gloucester, were already members of the Convivio-Medical Society meeting at the Ship Inn at Alveston near Bristol, a largely social club whose memb...

Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Trouessart, 1897) (Acariformes: Astigmata: Pyroglyphidae) is amongst the most common house dust mites (HDMs) species in Europe. Vacuuming commonly employed as a method for recovery subsequent quantification of mite densities. The vacuuming protocols and their efficiencies are frequently unreported. In this study, constant-flow vacuum sampler was used to evaluate ...

Aim: A fast activation time of hemostatic agents with blood must be sufficient to effectively stop bleeding within surgical procedures. However, there are no functional in vitro tests of hemostatic agents which mimick such a clinical application. Method: The efficacy of two common hemostatic agents was examined with heparinised human whole blood (0.7 IU/ml) and a contact time of only three minu...

An experiment was conducted to describe the characteristics of Angora rabbit fiber using optical fiber diameter analyzer (OFDA). A total of 349 fleece samples were collected from 60 French Angora rabbits. Recorded measurements of OFDA were as follows: mean fiber diameter, CV of fiber diameter, comfort factor, spinning fineness, mean fiber curvature, SD of fiber curvature, mean opacity of fibers...