Commentary on domestic animals in agricultural and biomedical research: an endangered enterprise.

A commentary on domestic animals as dual-purpose models that benefit agricultural and biomedical research.

Research on domestic animals (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, horses, and aquatic species) at land grant institutions is integral to improving the global competitiveness of US animal agriculture and to resolving complex animal and human diseases. However, dwindling federal and state budgets, years of stagnant funding from USDA for the Competitive State Research, Education, and Extension S...

Editorial: "Brain drain" and loss of resources jeopardize the continued use of domestic animals for agricultural and biomedical research.

Improving agricultural production of domestic rabbits in Serbia by follow-up study of their parasitic infections

A study was made on the prevalence of some parasitic infections appearing in domestic rabbits obtained from individual breeders in Serbia in order to improve the agricultural production of these animals. Aside from economic reasons (meat production and reproduction) rabbits are bred for the research purposes, and races are kept as household pets. For these reasons, among others, it is imp...

Development of new stem cell-based technologies for carnivore reproduction research.

New reproductive technologies based on stem cells offer several potential benefits to carnivore species. For example, development of lines of embryonic stem cells in cats and dogs would allow for the generation of transgenic animal models, which could be used to advance both veterinary and human health. Techniques such as spermatogonial stem cell transplantation (SSCT) and testis xenografting o...

Genetic Modification of Domestic Animals for Agriculture and Biomedical Applications

Transgenic technology has been applied mainly in the study of gene structure and function in model organisms and gene therapy for human diseases. Transgenic technology has potential for rapidly improving quantity and quality of agricultural products, compared to traditional selection and breeding methods in domestic animals that are time consuming when attempting to alter the desired allele fre...