The temperature–humidity index (THI) has been commonly used to analyse heat stress in dairy cattle, but little is known about its effects on buffaloes. In this study, daily milk yield (MY), fat percentage (FP), protein (PP) and somatic cell count (SCC) data from 808 buffalo cows plus environmental temperature relative humidity were investigate the consequence of stress. Two mixed models evaluat...

CONTEXT Somatic dysfunction as diagnosed by palpation should be associated with an objective measure. Bone mineral density (BMD) has been shown to be elevated in lumbar vertebrae with somatic dysfunction and in the lumbar region of individuals with chronic low back pain (LBP). OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of lumbar somatic dysfunction and BMD T-score variability in participants wi...

lactoferrin (lf) is a bioactive protein present in all external secretions such as milk that plays important role in the innate host defense. therefore, the lf has a major role in bovine mammary gland defense during mastitis. in this study, 5’-flanking region of bovine lf gene containing three single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) at positions −602 (t/g), −600 (a/g) and -586 (t/c) were screene...

To analyze the effects of some environmental factors such as herd, year, season of calving, stage of lactation on mastitis incidence, a total of 101147 monthly test day somatic cell counts collected from 13977 Iranian Holstein heifers calved between 2002 and 2006 in 183 herds were used. The event of mastitis in cows was coded as 1 if their somatic cell count at specific test day was greater tha...

the effect of in planta tiba and proline on in vitro seedlings and cell culture of sugar beet was investigated. sterilized seeds were grown in vitro on ½ strength ms medium supplemented with 0 or 3 mg/l tiba. calli obtained on young leaves cultured on ms medium containing 1 mg/l bap, were used for the intiation of cell suspension cultures using ms basal composition supplemented with 0 or 50 m m...

Genetic and phenotypic parameters for body condition score (BCS), days to first service (DFS), non-return rate (NRR), somatic cell score (SCS), and 305-day milk, fat and protein yields were estimated, using 38930 multiple lactation records of cows across 1830 herds. The cows were daughters of 243 different sires. Singleand multi-trait repeatability animal models were used to estimate parameters...