disease agents that principally target the tongue are relatively rare. it seems that type of food and roughage play an important role to predispose the animals to lingual ulcers. during a period of four years different aspects of cattle lingual fossa ulcer were studied in a semi-industrial dairy farm in tehran. the affected animals showed various stages of ulcer formation in their lingual fossa...

　 reducing production and death. The disease in endemic areas would be mild or subclinical in indigenous cattle and clinically acute in exotics. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to evaluate the resistance of indigenous cattle in comparison with Holstein and crossbred cattle against Theileria annulata through assessment of clinical signs and response to treatment. METHODS: For this purpose...

Besnoitia besnoiti, an apicomplexan parasite causes economically important disease in cattle in many countries of Africa and Asia is re-emerging in Europe. Serological identification of infected cattle is important because introduction of these animals into naive herds seems to play a major role in the transmission of the parasite. We report new, simplified immunoblot-based serological tests fo...

Mutations in coding regions of the C10orf2 (chromosome 10 open reading frame 2) gene encoding the mitochondrial protein twinkle were shown to co-segregate in man with autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia (adPEO) in several pedigrees of various ethnic origin (Spelbrink et al., 2001). A specific feature of the disease is accumulation of multiple deletions of mtDNA in tissues, m...

BACKGROUND The slaughter of pregnant cattle and the fate of the foetuses are relatively new subjects in the field of animal welfare. The Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to Public Health (SCVPH), however, does not believe this topic to be a critical issue because of the hitherto supposed rare occurrence of this practice. Some previous studies though, contradict this assessme...

–SDS – Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS PAGE) of blood plasma from three cattle and one buffalo affected with various tumors (odontoma, nasal granuloma and horn cancer in cattle and teat tumor in buffalo) revealed the presence of new proteins p51, p53 and p71-72 in all the samples which were not present in plasma from normal healthy bovines. However, another protein, p77.5 present in nor...

BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle, and has been called “mad cow disease.” Its symptoms are similar to “scrapie,” a brain disease that occurs in sheep. Cattle affected by BSE experience progressive degeneration of the nervous system. Affected animals may display changes in temperament, such as nervousness or aggression, abnormal posture, inco...

Brucellosis is an acute and chronic disease of cattle and can be transmitted to human beings. This disease is associated with numerous clinical manifestations and the rate of incidence of its skin complications is 5% in the affected patients. One of its rare skin complications is brucella abscess. In this study a 9-years old girl is presented with skin abscess of the posterior part of right ank...

to evaluate the effects of soil fertilizing treatments on agro morphological traits and mucilage of isabgol, a glasshouse experiment was conducted in college of agronomy and animal sciences, university of tehran. the experiment was conducted as a factorial based on complete randomized block design with three replications. in this study, the effects of soil fertilizing treatments including contr...