kawasaki disease is a multi system disorder with varying clinical expressions. this disease is an acute systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that has recently recognized as a leading cause of acquired heart disease in children of many developed countries. we describe an unusual instance of hair loss in a patient with kawasaki disease. a 26 months old boy developed prolonged high fever, bilat...

Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is an economically important pathogen of cattle worldwide. Infection of a pregnant animal may lead to persistent infection of the foetus and birth of a persistently infected (PI) calf that sheds the virus throughout its life. However, BVD viruses are not strictly species specific. BVDV has been isolated from many domesticated and wild ruminants. This is of pr...

Kisspeptins, the product of the KISS1 gene, play an essential role in the regulation of reproductive functions, acting primarily at the hypothalamic level of the gonadotropic axis. We detected polymorphisms of the goat KISS1 gene in 723 individuals from three goat breeds (Xinong Saanen, Guanzhong, and Boer) by DNA pooling, PCR-RFLP, and DNA sequencing methods. We cloned the promoter sequence of...

Ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT) attaches octanoate to proghrelin, which is processed to ghrelin, an octanoylated peptide hormone that stimulates release of growth hormone (GH) from pituitary cells. Elimination of the gene encoding ghrelin or its receptor produces only mild phenotypes in mice. Thus, the essential function of ghrelin is obscure. Here, we eliminate the Goat gene in mice, thereby ...

manganese and cobalt concentrations in hair and nail were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer (aas).the mean manganese in hair and nail were 0.54 â± 0.35mg/g and 0.68 â± 0.30mg/g while the mean cobalt in hair and nail were 0.30 â± 0.24mg/g and 0.460.37mg/g respectively. a progressive increase in cobalt concentrations in hair and nails with age indicated no significant differ...