The study was conducted on 85 neonatals of Pak-Karakul sheep at the Sheep and Goat Development Centre, Rakh Khairewala, District Layyah, Pakistan, with the aim of assessing the relationship of immunoglobulins to neonatal lamb mortality. Overall mortality in neonates was 8.24%. Surviving lambs (3.77±0.07 kg) were significantly (P<0.001) heavier than those that died during the neonatal period (2....

Disseminated aspergillosis is responsible for a high mortality rate, despite the use of antifungal drugs. Adjuvant therapies are urgently needed to improve the outcome. The aim of this study was to demonstrate that the cytoprotective effect of erythropoietin (EPO) combined with amphotericin B can reduce the mortality rate in a murine model of disseminated aspergillosis. After infection with Asp...

Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of aerospace structures using traditional methods is a complex, time-consuming process critical to maintaining mission readiness and flight safety. Limited access to corrosion-prone structure and the restricted applicability of available NDE techniques for the detection of hidden corrosion or other damage often compound the challenge. In this paper we discuss our...

The aim of this research was to evaluate the role zinc supplementation on reduction heat stress in local lambs during hot season. In current experiment, twenty-seven were housed indoor individual pens (1.50 × 1.30m). Zinc added fresh drinking water three different levels namely T1 (0 mg Zn/day), T2 (36 Zn/day) and T3 (72 Zn/day). Serum (zinc; µmol/L), Alkaline phosphate (ALP; U/I), Alanine amin...

WITH ONE PLATE I T is generally considered that urea diffuses freely across the placental barrier and that creatinine does so too (Needham, 1931), and that the concentration of both compounds is the same in foetal and maternal plasma. Alexander, Nixon, Widdas, & Wohlzogen (1958), however, found that the concentration of creati-nine was higher in the serum of the foetal lamb than it was in the m...

The data set used in this study contained 8793 records of lamb's longevity (days) from 320 sires and 2349 dams collected during 1989 to 2014, from the Lori-Bakhtiari flock at Shooli station in Shahrekord, Iran. Genetic parameters (partitioned into autosomal, sex-linked and maternal) and breeding values of cumulative lamb's longevity from birth up to yearling age (at 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months)...

A time-frequency representation (TFR) is used to analyze the interaction of a multimode and dispersive Lamb wave with a notch, and then serves as the basis for a correlation technique to locate the notch. The experimental procedure uses a laser source and a dual-probe laser interferometer to generate and detect Lamb waves in a notched plate. The high fidelity, broad-bandwidth, point-like and no...

We have characterized a nonlethal selection for mutations that allow Escherichia coli to grow on large maltodextrins (Dex+) in the absence of the lamB encoded maltoporin LamB. These Dex+ mutations occur before and after imposition of the selection and the selection does not result in a general increase in mutagenesis. The recovered Dex+ mutations are almost exclusively mutations that alter the ...