The aim of this study was to detect the major bacteria present in rumen microbiota. Here, we performed qPCR based absolute quantitation of selected rumen microbes in rumen fluid of river buffalo adapted to varying proportion of concentrate to roughage diets. Animals were adapted to roughage-to-concentrate ratio in the proportion of 100:00 (T1), 75:25 (T2), 50:50 (T3) and 25:75 (T4) respectively...

Carboxypeptidase-B (E.C 3.4.17.2) catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides and esters at C-terminus of arginine and lysine residues. Our study describes the large scale purification, N-terminal sequence analysis and physiochemical properties of pancreatic enzyme from river buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). The enzyme was purified up to 71 folds by anion-exchange chromatography with 21% final recovery. Pur...

Wild African herbivores have, for a long time, been considered as a potential source of substantial amounts of nutritional protein (4, 6, 10). Plans to harvest the considerable animal diversity of the African savannahs have been numerous, but only few have succeeded in the sustained transformation of wild biomass into edible meat (5, 9). Public health precautions necessary for the organized pro...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the defense cells changes of cervical mucous during follicular and luteal phases of estrus cycle in river buffalo. Reproductive organs of the adult and apparently healthy female buffaloes were collected from the slaughterhouse. By visual investigation of both the ovaries for presence of corpus luteum and growing follicles, the luteal and follicular phase of...

Assessing roles of people, technology and structure in emergency management systems: a public sector perspective Minkyun Kim a Now at Department of Business Management and Economics, College of Social Science, Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, Korea. , Raj Sharman b , Catherine P. Cook-Cottone c , H. Raghav Rao b & Shambhu J. Upadhyaya d a Department of Operations Management and Strategy, Scho...