Introduction Consumers consistently rank beef tenderness among the most important factors that determine eating satisfaction. Although industry efforts have improved the consistency and tenderness of beef, Brahman and other Bos indicus breeds have garnered a reputation for lower marbling, tougher beef, and greater variation in eating quality. This reputation puts Bos indicus cattle and their cr...

Calcium calmodulin dependent protein ser/thr phosphatase, also referred to as protein phosphatase 2B (PP2B), is rich in neural tissue, and plays an important role in the overall function of the nervous system. Routinely phosphatase assay employs, para-Nitrophenlylphosphate (p-NPP), as a substrate, is also extended to assay PP2B. However, in the present study, the differential spectral character...

Adult females of the tick Boophilus decoloratus were removed from 6 breeds of cattle on 2 farms in the Northern Transvaal. Highest numbers of female ticks were collected from Simmentaler, followed by Santa Gertrudis, Bonsmara, Afrikaner, Brahman and Nguni. Resistance levels of each breed to B. decoloratus was positively correlated with the amount of Bos indicus genes in the breed, with the exce...

Chronic toxicity test was conducted for 28 days with post larval stages of Penaeus indicus to arsenic for studying the changes associated with growth pattern, specifying the length, weight and condition factor. Arsenic exposures produced significant (P < 0.05) effect in terms of length, weight and deteriorated the condition factor of the test animal. Differentiation in relation between the cond...

Seven major commercially important marine fisheries species, Fenneropenaeus indicus, Chaceon quinquedens, Lethrinus nebulosus, Scomberomorus commerson, Plectropomus pessuliferus, Pampus argenteus, and Epinephelus summana were seasonally sampled from Jeddah main local market, Saudi Arabia. The heavy metals, namely arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), le...

Introduction Taurine (Bos taurus) and zebu (Bos indicus) cattle were domesticated independently in the Near East and in India respectively (Beja-Pereira et al., 2006) and are believed to have diverged 117-275,000 years ago (Bradley et al., 2006). Bos taurus cattle were introduced to Australia by European settlers in the end of the 18th century. The main B. indicus breed used for beef production...

The purpose of the present work was to evaluate anticarcinogenic and cytotoxic potential of Hemidesmus indicus methanolic root extract (HiRe) against Ehrlich Ascites Tumor. The extract showed a significant in vitro cytotoxic activity against Ehrlich Ascites Tumor (EAT) cell line. IC50 value for EAT cell line was 274.83μg.The anticarcinogenic activity of the extract was determined by using EAT c...

In the recent publication “Comparative Analyses of Nonpathogenic, Opportunistic, and Totally Pathogenic Mycobacteria Reveal Genomic and Biochemical Variabilities and Highlight the Survival Attributes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,” Rahman et al. (1) used bioinformatic methods to examine the evolutionary relatedness and metabolic capacity of mycobacteria of diverse pathogenic potential. A key co...