Abstract :  Oral administration of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts to cats (i.e., monoxenous transmission) typically induces patent infections in fewer than half of test subjects. In the present study, oral administration of T. gondii oocysts to 5 kittens induced a patent infection in 2 of them, but only 1 kitten shed enough oocysts to enable further study. Those monoxenously-produced oocysts were ad...

Because of the presence of bile-salt-activated lipase in cat milk, the dependence of the kitten on bile-salt-activated lipase is anticipated for milk fat absorption. To test this hypothesis, we initiated a feeding experiment comparing the growth rate of kittens fed with formula with those fed with formula and supplemented with purified human milk bile-salt-activated lipase. The results indicate...

The world we live in contains animate and inanimate objects, and adults think about these classes of objects in different ways. Consider one clear case from each class: a cat and a chair. We expect a young kitten to grow an4 change shape over time, but do not expect a newly made chair to do this. If one used instruments to alter the shape of the chair, we might not accept the result as the same...

Manuls or Pallas' cats (Felis manul, syn. Otocolobus manul) are endangered wild cats from Central Asia kept and bred in many zoos. Despite good breeding success young cats frequently die from acute toxoplasmosis. From 1998 to 2002, a breeding pair in the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, gave birth to 24 kittens; 58 % of kittens died between the 2nd and the 14th week of life, mostly due to acu...

the efficacy of clindamycin and monensin were evaluated in the prevention of oocyst shedding of kittens with toxoplasma gondii (tehran strain). in this study, 28 healthy kittens aged 1.5 – 2 months old divided randomly into 4 groups of seven. in group 1, kittens were fed with the infected brain tissues of mice, all of seven kittens (100 %), shed oocyst, nearly 1 week after infection, which last...

The nitrogen requirement of the weanling kitten was determined in a series of three experiments. In each experiment, diets were formulated to provide the growing kitten with the essential amino acids at or above the level of requirement. Expt 1 utilized a 4 x 4 balanced Latin square design with two groups of kittens (four male and four female). The crystalline L-amino acid diets were presented ...

This paper provides an overview of ATR's Artiicial Brain (CAM-Brain) Project, which aims to build an artiicial brain containing some billion artiicial neurons by the year 2001, and to use this brain to control the behaviors of a robot kitten "Robokoneko".