Sublethal heating, which can occur during slow cooking of meat products, is known to induce increased thermal resistance in Salmonella. However, very few studies have addressed the kinetics of this response. Although several recent studies have reported improved thermal inactivation models that include the effect of prior sublethal history on subsequent thermal resistance, none of these models ...

The toxic effect of chromium on the histology of gill and liver of Labeo rohita fingerlings was studied. The fingerlings were exposed for 10, 20 and 30 days in 10% sublethal concentration of 96 h LC50 of chromium (3.5 ppm). The gills exposed to sublethal concentration of chromium showed mild histological alterations during 10 days of exposure. However after 30 days, fusion of gill lamellae, hyp...

fed a diet consisting of natural foodstuffs than when main tained on a semipurified ration. Whereas these comparative differences between stock rations and purified diets relative to tumor incidence have been evaluated in terms of carcinogenic compounds and spontaneously appearing tumors, to our knowledge this effect has never been assessed in regards to exposure to sublethal doses of total-bod...

Initially characterized for their roles in apoptosis, executioner caspases have emerged as important regulators of an array of cellular activities. This is especially true in the nervous system, where sublethal caspase activity has been implicated in axonal pathfinding and branching, axonal degeneration, dendrite pruning, regeneration, long-term depression, and metaplasticity. Here we examine t...

The effect of sublethal, midlethal, and lethal doses of total-body X irradiation on the fecal microbial population of the rat was studied. No changes were observed in animals receiving sublethal doses of X ray. Midlethal and lethal doses produced an increase in the numbers of fecal coliforms, staphylococci, streptococci, and fungi; these changes were transient in rats that survived, but were mo...

Juveniles of fish L. rohita and R. rita subjected to a rapid (5 min) sublethal temperature increase from 28 to 35 degrees C showed significant increase in cortisol and decrease in interrenal ascorbic acid. Hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycemia and hyperlactemia were also evident accompanied by increased blood haemoglobin and haematocrit and stable protein levels. Compensatory responses were initi...

fed a diet consisting of natural foodstuffs than when main tained on a semipurified ration. Whereas these comparative differences between stock rations and purified diets relative to tumor incidence have been evaluated in terms of carcinogenic compounds and spontaneously appearing tumors, to our knowledge this effect has never been assessed in regards to exposure to sublethal doses of total-bod...

in the present study, the toxic effects on the embryos and larvae of the turbot were used as a model to investigate the diazinon, which contaminates aquatic ecosystems. the number of dead embryos significantly increased in response to diazinon concentrations 0.2, 0.4, 0.8, 1.6, 3.2, and 7.4 mg/l. the 48h lc50 value of diazinon for turbot embryos was estimated at 1.85 mg/l. dose–response decrea...

the effect of two insecticides, imidacloprid and pyriproxyfen, were investigated on some biological parameters of ladybird beetle menochilus sexmaculatus (f.) (coleoptera: coccinellidae) under laboratory condition. theladybird beetle were exposed to insecticides by ingestion of the common pistachio psylla, agonoscena pistaciae burckhardt and lauterer (hemiptera: psyllidae) (prey). for imidaclop...