Lake Okeechobee is a large (1,730 km) freshwater lake located at the center of the interconnected south Florida aquatic ecosystem. The lake is shallow (average depth <3 m), originated about 6,000 years ago during oceanic recession, and under natural conditions probably was a slightly eutrophic and had vast marshes to the west and south. The southern marsh was contiguous with the Florida Evergla...

Populations of large carnivores are declining globally, and analysis of public discourse about carnivores is useful for understanding public opinion and influences on management and policy. Portrayal of carnivores in the media affects public perceptions and support for their conservation. We conducted a content analysis of 513 articles about Florida panthers (Puma concolor coryi) published from...

Objective: To induce immunosuppression in rats by pyrogallol and to develop a novel model to screen the immunomodulatory activity of a known agent. Material and Methods: In order to induce immunosuppression, pyrogallol was daily administered to rats for 7 days in different doses (10, 25, 50 and 100 mg/kg, i.p.). On Day 7 and 13, the rats were sensitized with sheep red blood cells (SRBC) to asse...

BACKGROUND Global positioning system (GPS) technology for monitoring home range and movements of wildlife has resulted in prohibitively large sample sizes of locations for traditional estimators of home range. We used area-under-the-curve to explore the fit of 8 estimators of home range to data collected with both GPS and concurrent very high frequency (VHF) technology on a terrestrial mammal, ...

BACKGROUND Atherothrombotic diseases such as myocardial or cerebral infarction are serious consequences of the thrombus formed in blood vessels. Thrombolytic agents are used to dissolve the already formed clots in the blood vessels; however, these drugs have certain limitations which cause serious and sometimes fatal consequences. Herbal preparations have been used since ancient times for the t...

Intentions of College Students to Serve as Informal Caregivers for Their Older Relatives: Theory of Planned Behavior Approach Gungeet Joshi a , Salvador Gezan b , Tony Delisle c , Christine Stopka c , Morgan Pigg c & Mark Tillman d a Department of Health Outcomes and Policy , University of Florida , Gainesville , Florida , USA b School of Forest Resources and Conservation , University of Florid...

1. This document is AN124, one of a series of the Animal Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date September 17, 2001. Revised April, 2004. Revised December 2009. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Robert Myer, professor; Travis Maddock, post-doctoral associate; D...

Jun Zhang, Sonia L. Planey, Carolina Ceballos, Stanley M. Stevens Jr. Susan K. Keay, and David A. Zacharias 1 The Whitney Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080 2. Proteomics Core Facility, ICBR, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32610 3. University of Maryland, VA Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21201 Running Title: Palmitoyl Acyl T...