As lactating cows in severe negative energy balance have poor reproductive performance, the effect of dietary fat supplementation (fish oil, soybean oil) on PGFM secretion, ovarian function and blood metabolites is investigated. In this experiment, the effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on plasma metabolites, ovarian function and prostaglandin secretion of 20 primiparous Holstein co...

Given two maps f1, f2 : M −→ N between manifolds of the indicated arbitrary dimensions, when can they be deformed away from one another? More generally: what is the minimum number MCC(f1, f2) of pathcomponents of the coincidence space of maps f ′ 1 , f ′ 2 where f ′ i is homotopic to fi, i = 1, 2 ? Approaching this question via normal bordism theory we define a lower bound N(f1, f2) which gener...

Airway inflammation plays a major role in the pathogenesis of influenza viruses and can lead to a fatal outcome. One of the challenging objectives in the field of influenza research is the identification of the molecular bases associated to the immunopathological disorders developed during infection. While its precise function in the virus cycle is still unclear, the viral protein PB1-F2 is pro...

Genetic correlations (r ) between Lifespan (LS) and conformation traits in the Ayrshire breed were obtained from data on g 8087 heifers which calved between 1976 and August 1990. The r were estimated from a series of multivariate analyses g applying an animal model restricted maximum-likelihood procedure. The genetic relationship between LS and somatic cell counts (SCC) was studied in the Holst...

Two types of cytochrome P450 2D14 (CYP2D14) gene deletions (GD1 and GD2) in Japanese Black cattle has been reported by us. In this study, we determined the frequency of cytochrome P450 2D14 (CYP2D14) genetic polymorphisms in 48 Japanese Black (JB) and 48 Holstein-Friesian (HF) cattle using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-direct sequencing. Two types of CYP2D14 gene deletion variants, GD1 and GD...

1Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF), Medizinische Klinik III, Berlin; 2Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie/ZAFES/Diagnostikzentrum für Akute Leukämie (DCAL), Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main; 3Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (DSMZ), Braunschweig; 4Medizinische Klinik II, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Kiel, Kiel;...

Under tropical condition the BCS may influence the feed intake and metabolism leading to variation in economic parameters. This study investigated the BCS as a regulator of milk yield (MY) and composition (MC) in dairy animals. A total of 154 animals, comprising Azakheli (AZ) and Nili-Ravi (NR) buffaloes, Holstein Friesian (HF), Jersey (JC), Sahiwal (SW), Achai (AC) and crossbreds (XB) cattle a...

Introduction Investigating and comparing the two systems Comparing some technical efficiency ratios and profit Points to note about the comparison Conclusions References Abstract. In this study, budgets of herd dynamics, feed and energy supply, production and profit of alternative dairy farm systems were used to examine the effects of changing a 230 cow Holstein-Friesian (HF) dairy system to a ...

The influenza A virus PB1-F2 protein, encoded by an alternative reading frame in the PB1 polymerase gene, displays a high sequence polymorphism and is reported to contribute to viral pathogenesis in a sequence-specific manner. To gain insights into the functions of PB1-F2, the molecular structure of several PB1-F2 variants produced in Escherichia coli was investigated in different environments....

This study evaluated the effect of a prostaglandin F2? (PGF) analogue as an ovulatory stimulus in dairy cows and buffaloes raised Amazon biome. To this end, three experiments were performed state Rondônia, located In Experiment 1, 22 lactating received 2 mg intramuscular (I.M.) estradiol benzoate (EB) on day 0 intravaginal progesterone-releasing device (CIDR) from to 9 protocol. On days 8 9, al...