Ten pregnant buffalo cows, six of which were subsequently shown to be carriers of SAT 1, 2 and 3 viruses, were captured in the Kruger National Park (KNP) and allowed to calve in captivity. The buffalo cows and calves were separated by a fence from 6 FMD susceptible cattle but the buffalo and cattle were obliged to use common drinking troughs and hay racks. Over a period of 15 months, during whi...

1Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, The State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260, USA 2Department of Computer Science Engineering, The State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260, USA 3Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, The State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260, USA 4NYs Center for Engineering Design & Industrial...

Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 (RRA, WL, DCD) Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 (RRA, DCD, WJJ) New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (RRA, WJJ) Biomedical Engineering Department, Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 08854 (EY, IA) JPET Fa...

Successful Implementation of eRx Systems: Creating Technology–Organization Alignment using the StrategyMap Approach Nan Xiao, Supriya Mahajan, Rajiv Kishore, Vishwanath Muthyam Venkata, Nishath Ahmed Shaik, Edwin J. Anand & Ranjit Singh a Department of Computer Information Systems & Quantitative Methods, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, USA b School of Medicine and Biomedi...

Comparison of processing characteristics of meat from young male, spent male and spent female buffaloes was made to find the suitability of the meat for developing ready to eat meat products. Intensively reared young male buffalo meat showed higher moisture, collagen solubility, sarcomere length, myofibrillar fragmentation index and water holding capacity than meat from the other animals. A hig...

Domestic buffalo and cattle are two extremely important livestock species in worldwide agricultural production. In this paper, to investigate genetic diversity and divergence among swamp buffalo, river buffalo and cattle, 30 microsatellite markers were screened on 168 individuals sampled from five populations. Substantial differences were observed among the three groups of animals with respect ...

Theileria parva is the causative agent of Corridor disease in cattle in South Africa. The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is the reservoir host, and, as these animals are important for eco-tourism in South Africa, it is compulsory to test and certify them disease free prior to translocation. A T. parva-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test based on the small subunit ribosoma...

Background: Lactoperoxidase (LPO) is one of the most heat-stable enzymes in milk and its inactivation has been proposed for monitoring thermal processes. The aim of this study was to provide information on activity and thermal inactivation behavior of LPO in Iranian cow and buffalo milk and whey. Methods: Sixty cow and buffalo milk samples were collected. The LPO activity was measured using ...

The present study was conducted to design and analyze the structural model of buffalo pregnancy-associated glycoprotein-1 (PAG-1) using bioinformatics. Structural modeling of the deduced buffalo PAG-1 protein was done using PHYRE, CONSURF servers and its structure was subsequently constructed using MODELLER 9.9 and PyMOL softwares Buffalo PAG-1 structural conformity was analyzed using PROSA, WH...

Buffaloes are well known domestic animals in Asia, Mediterranean and Latin American countries of the world for different breeding purposes such as milk, meat, draught and capital [23]. The buffalo has been regarded as poor reproductive efficiency and characterized by low conception rates [6, 22, 23]. Seasonality of buffalo breeding results in a milk supply that exceeds demand in summer and autu...