Unilateral deafferentation induced by transection of the C(4)-C(8) dorsal roots of spinal cord, followed by a complex of abnormal self-mutilating behavior, is interpreted as an animal model of chronic nociception. The objective of our study was to test the differences in tail-flick latency between intact control and unilaterally deafferented animals and to assess the changes in their acute noci...

Introduction: Depressive disorder is a prevalent psychiatric disorder, which affects 21% of the world population. The presently using drugs can impose a variety of side-effects including cardiac toxicity, hypopiesia, sexual dysfunction, body weight gain, and sleep disorder. During the last decade, there is a growing interest in the therapeutic effects of natural products on mental disorders. Am...

The attachment of tail fibers to tail-fiberless T4 particles in extracts of mutant-infected cells proceeds slowly in the absence of gene product Cgp) 63, but can be stimulated up to 50-fold by its presence, supporting the view that gp63 acts catalytically to increase the rate of tail fiber attachment. The active protein has been purified about loo-fold to yield a nearly homogeneous preparation....

introduction: depressive disorder is a prevalent psychiatric disorder, which affects 21% of the world population. the presently using drugs can impose a variety of side-effects including cardiac toxicity, hypopiesia, sexual dysfunction, body weight gain, and sleep disorder. during the last decade, there is a growing interest in the therapeutic effects of natural products on mental disorders. am...

Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs) accumulate in long-lived tissue proteins like collagen in bone and tendon causing modification of the biomechanical properties. This has been hypothesized to raise the risk of orthopedic injury such as bone fractures and tendon ruptures. We evaluated the relationship between AGE content in the diet and accumulation of AGEs in weight-bearing animal Achilles ...

In this study, we examined the effects of a potent cysteine protease inhibitor, N-(L-3-trans-carboxyoxirane-2-cabonyl)-L-leucine-4-aminobutylamide (E-64a), on bone weight and strength in tail-suspended rats. We first administered a vehicle or 4 or 8 mg/rat of E-64a to rats fed with a low calcium diet for 7 wks to determine effective doses of E-64a on bone resorption in vivo. Femoral cathepsin K...

Traditional medicine is generally considered to be safer than modern because it has lower incidence of side effects and also relatively easy obtain. The purpose this study was examine the analgesic effect herbs made basil, lime, honey, candlenut, Tiwai onions as well evaluate potential these a stamina stimulator. This conducted at Laboratory Animal Management Unit, Faculty Veterinary Medicine, ...

We formulate and study a model for inhomogeneous long-range percolation on Z. Each vertex x ∈ Z is assigned a non-negative weight Wx, where (Wx)x∈Zd are i.i.d. random variables. Conditionally on the weights, and given two parameters α, λ > 0, the edges are independent and the probability that there is an edge between x and y is given by pxy = 1 − exp{−λWxWy/|x − y|α}. The parameter λ is the per...

Three-dimensional femoral trabecular architecture was investigated in tail-suspended young growing rats and the effects of jump exercise during the period of tail-suspension were also examined. Eight-week-old male Wistar rats (n = 24) were randomly assigned to three body weight-matched groups: a tail suspended group (SUS, n = 8); a sedentary control group (CON, n = 8) and rats primed with jump ...

the possibility of in vivo carcass trait prediction using the ultrasound measurements obtained between 12th and 13th ribs was studied. attention was paid to several carcass traits such as carcass backfat thickness (cbft), carcass longissimus dorsi muscle (clma) and carcass weight (hcw). also, the effects of the flock, as the fixed effects, and body weight (bw), as covariate, on these traits wer...