The identification of causative mutations affecting economically important traits has benefited the worldwide pig industry. We investigated the genetic variation at five loci including RYR1, IGF2, FUT1, MUC13, and KPL2 affecting traits related to production, reproduction, and disease resistance in a sample of 8009 pigs representing 3 commercial breeds (Duroc, Landrace, and Large White) from 28 ...

Relevance: Positron emission tomography combined with computed (PET/CT) is a young and promising technique for lymphoproliferative diseases’ primary detection, staging, evaluation of the treatment results. However, at this stage nuclear medicine development, some shortcomings in PET/CT diagnostics lymphomas using 18Fluorodeoxyglucose (F18-FDG) affect its reliability to certain extent.
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15 Porcine enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) continue to result in major morbidity 16 and mortality to the swine industry via post-weaning diarrhea. The key virulence 17 factors of these strains, their serotypes, and their fimbrial components have been 18 well studied. However, most studies to date have focused on plasmid-encoded traits 19 related to colonization and toxin production, and...

Intraocular choroidal metastasis is a very rare cause of blindness. Choroidal hemangioma and melanoma are other causes that may mimic the condition. Carcinoma of breast is the most common primary malignancy that accounts for choroidal metastasis in females and carcinoma of lung is the most common cause in males. Other primary neoplasms which can uncommonly metastasize to the choroid are testis,...

BACKGROUND Intestinal disease in nursery pigs is the most common cause of antibiotic usage in pigs in Denmark. The decision to initiate batch medication of intestinal diseases in nursery pigs is typically made by the stock personnel based on clinical assessments of pigs and counting of diarrhoeic faecal pools on the pen floor. The target population of this study was batches of nursery pigs (10-...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the success of selective intraarterial radionuclide therapy (SIRT) with Yttrium-90 (Y-90) microspheres in liver metastases of different tumors. We also interpreted the contribution of SIRT to survival times according to respondernon responder and hepaticextra hepatic disease. Methods: The clinical and follow-up data of 124 patients who were refe...