The aim of this study was to investigate the hemagglutination properties of caprine herpesvirus-1(CpHV-1) and their application for CpHV-1 antigen detection and evaluation of the dynamics of postinfectious/vaccine antibody production. CpHV-1 hemagglutination activity was proved only with mouseerythrocytes, PBS and saline solutions at 4°C and 22°C. In vaccinated animals, goats and bucks withresp...

Thank you for your letter and for the reviewer’s comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Total disc replacement with the Prestige LP cervical disc in a Caprine model”. Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made corrections which we ho...

Effects of aging on functional properties of caprine milk made into Cheddarand Colby-like cheeses D.W. Olson a,1, D.L. Van Hekken a,∗, M.H. Tunick a, K.A. Soryal b, S.S. Zeng c a Dairy Processing and Products Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, ARS-USDA, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, USA b Animal and Poultry Division, Desert Research Center, Matareya, Cairo, Egypt c E ...

Enzyme cytochemical and histochemical tests have practical value for the study of immature, blast cells and lymphocytes since Romanowsky-stained films might be insufficient to identify differentiation and maturation features of the cells [2, 7]. Peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) counts and their enzymatic profile may change in the human [7] and bovine leukemia [23], Marek’s disease in the chick...

A caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV)/maedi-visna virus (MVV) indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (iELISA) was validated with samples from U.S. sheep and by the use of radioimmunoprecipitation as the standard for comparison. The sensitivity and the specificity were 86.0% (+ or - 5.8%) and 95.9% (+ or - 2.9%), respectively. The iELISA format and phylogenetic differences based on t...

The aim of the present investigation was to compare Tyrode’s albumin lactate pyruvate (TALP) medium and TRIS citrate medium for capacitation of caprine sperm. In experiment 1 capacitation was assessed by chlortetracycline assay and in experiment 2 with in vitro fertilization and embryo development. In experiment 2, cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs) recovered by slicing the caprine ovaries were ma...