objective(s): atherosclerosis is the main leading cause of cardiovascular diseases. the purpose of this study was to assess the potential preventive effect of egg yolk hdl on the atherosclerosis plaque formation. materials and methods: thirty rabbits were divided into five groups: a; normal diet, b; hyper-cholesterolemic diet, c; hypercholesterolemic + 400 mg/kg egg yolk hdl d; hypercholesterol...

eighteen primiparous rabbit does comprising of six per breed of new zealand white (nzw), chinchilla (cc) and dutch belted (db). they were randomly allocated to three rebreeding interval groups of 7, 14 and 21 days postpartum. three breeding males, one per breed were used giving a total of 21 rabbits. significant (p

background cartilage tissue has limited regenerative capacity and the management of cartilage defects has always been a challenging issue. platelet-rich plasma (prp) has been recently been used to improve healing of cartilage defects. in the present experiment, we aimed to investigate the effects of prp on regeneration capacity as well as survival of the cartilage grafts in a rabbit model. meth...

Rabbit farming is a powerful source of dietary meat, rabbit fluff, and skins. The research was conducted at the farm Precarpathian State Agricultural Research Station Institute Agriculture Carpathian Region National Academy Agrarian Sciences. article describes creation new highly productive genetic populations rabbits identified as best options for crossing maternal paternal forms. Three breeds...

Ione Fine is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She studied Experimental Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford, and did her PhD with Robert Jacobs at Rochester, NY. She then fell in love with a Californian, so she moved to the University of California, San Diego to do a post-doc with Donald MacLeod and Karen Dobkins. After a brief spell at Second Sight Medi...

background and aims: methotrexate (mtx), a folic acid antagonist, is widely used as a treatment for malignancies as well as in the treatment of various inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. nephrotoxicity is an important side-effect of this drug. prevention and treatment of mtx-induced renal dysfunction are essential to prevent potentially life-threatening mtx-associated toxicities, present st...

surgical wound infections are usually encountered due to the endogenous rather than the exogenousinfective sources. the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a distant inoculated infective source on the contamination of surgical wounds. thirty white new zealand rabbits divided randomly into three control and three treatment equal groups. in treatment groups 24 hrs before surgica...

background & objectives: alloxan & streptozotocin are used for inducing diabetic models. their combination has been used to reduce the individual chemical dosage and minimize the side effects. present investigation was aimed at studying pre-diabetic clinical changes induced by low doses of alloxan-stz cocktail in rabbits. methods: new zealand white rabbits, 1-1.5 kg body weight, were a...

Rabbit breeding is a special branch of animal husbandry characterized by high fertility and growth intensity. The main way intensification rabbit farming involves such selection measures that adapt populations keeping in industrial conditions, ensure reproductive properties female rabbits, preservation rabbits nests, rate, fattening meat qualities animals. research was conducted on the basis ex...

• The rabbit offers some advantages as an unanesthetized preparation over other species, in that it will, remain quietly, without previous training, in a small cage during a variety of experimental procedures. Previous work from this laboratory has shown that the circulation of the rabbit studied under these conditions is stable as judged by the relative constancy of the resting cardiac output,...