Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is an important pathogen in health care and is responsible for severe nosocomial and community-acquired pneumonia. To design novel therapeutic agents, a mouse model for A. baumannii pneumonia is essential. Methods: We described a mouse model of A. baumannii using clinical and 19606R standard strains for developing a quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) for ra...

noise is considered as one of the harmful factors at industrial environments. it affects human health in different aspects including harmful influences on auditory, vision, neurological and psychiatric systems, hormones, physiological and mental systems. paying attention to the importance of hormonal effects on human body seems to possess crucial importance. the aim of the present study is to i...

the aim of this study was to evaluate changes that occur in motility parameters of progesterone treated mouse spermatozoa during course of hyperactivation. mouse spermatozoa treated with different doses of progesterone were videotaped after 10 min and 90 min of incubation. for each sperm, one second of movement of the head-midpiece junction was traced from the videotape and for each tracing sev...

Objective: The present study was carried out to investigate the neuropharmacological activities of ethyl acetate extract of Mimosa pudica (EAMP) leaves on anxiety, depression and memory in a mouse model. Materials and Methods: Anti-anxiety potential of EAMP was evaluated by elevated plus maze (EPM), light-dark box (LDB) and social interaction (SI) tests in mice.Anti-depressant potential of EAMP...

Haemorrhagic septicaemia (HS) is a fatal systemic disease of cattle and buffaloes. Some control isachieved with administration of alum-precipitated or oil-adjuvanted killed whole-cell vaccines injectedsubcutaneously. These vaccines, however, provide only short-term immunity and for effective use, theyshould be administered annually. We constructed an aroA attenuated derivative of a Pasteurella ...

The mouse provides a tool with which to probe the complex interaction between the mammalian immune system and the slow-growing, inflammatory, and persistent bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Simple mouse models using genetic deletion or antibody inhibition have identified causal connections between specific components of the immune response and survival upon challenge with Mtb, and t...

It may be hard, now that Mycobacterium leprae is just another entry in the large catalogue of pathogens whose DNA sequence is known and leprosy is just another treatable bacterial disease, to understand the excitement generated by the mouse footpad model when it was introduced. It is, after all, not obviously exciting: 10,000 bacilli are injected into the hind footpad of a normal mouse. This is...