In the present study, we have assessed the effect of gender on short-term calorie restriction influencing body weight and immunological parameters in albino rats. Adult albino rats (12 females, 12 males) were taken for the study and randomly divided into control and experimental groups of both the genders (n = 6 in each). Following the recording of their basal 24 h food intake and body weight, ...

Male and female albino rats given different oral doses (0.75, 2.5, 5.0 and 0.25, 0.75, 1.5 mg/kg/D) of endosulfan respectively for a period of 30 days elicited signs of toxicity such as hyperexcitability, tremor, dyspnea and salivation for a brief period. At the tested dose levels, endosulfan produced no significant change in the organ body weight ratio, biochemical, histological, haematologica...

Transcriptome sequencing using Illumina RNA-seq was performed on populations of black tiger shrimp from India. Samples were collected from (i) four landing centres around the east coastline (EC) of India, (ii) survivors of a severe WSSV infection during pond culture (SUR) and (iii) the Andaman Islands (AI) in the Bay of Bengal. Equal quantities of purified total RNA from homogenates of hepatopa...

Objectives: Exposure to chromium, the transition element found in many compounds of earth’s crust, leads to various health hazards including cancer, dermatitis, damage of liver and kidneys, and reproductive toxicity in both male and female. Toxic effect of chronic exposure to chromium at low environmentally relevant dose is recently recognized and less studied. In the present study, we evaluate...

It is assumed that the immobility reflex (IR) evoked in adult rats by sensory stimulation does not exceed a few seconds. However, we easily achieved a longer lasting (up to 3 min or longer) immobility state in most of the tested rats when they were grasped by hand and lifted to a specific upright position. Twenty male rats originating from two different albino populations could remain immobiliz...

Experiments were conducted to demonstrate the role of male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the maintenance and transmission of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) to female mosquitoes. We demonstrated that infected male mosquitoes are capable of infecting females during mating. The infection rate in female mosquitoes was 11% when virgin female mosquitoes were allowed to coinhabit with infected males. The bod...

In a study of the clinicopathologic syndrome of toxicity to phenacetin at the range of the acute, oral LD50j Boyd in 1959 (1) used adult female rats and reported the LD50±SE to be 1.65±0.35 g/kg body weight. In 1968, Boyd and Hottenroth (2) studied the toxicity of phenacetin at the range of the oral LD50 (100 days) and reported the acute oral LD50 ±SE in young male albino rats to be 4.14±0.71 g...

Species Survival Plans and European Endangered Species Programmes have been developed for several species of endangered felids in order to build up captive reserve populations and support their conservation in the wild. The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), snow leopard (Uncia uncia), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) and clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) are managed in such ex situ conserva...