By the terms set by international agreements for the conservation of Yukon River salmon, 2009 was a management success. It was a devastating year for many of the Alaska Native communities along the Yukon River, however, especially in up-river communities, where subsistence fishing was closed in order to meet international conservation goals for Chinook salmon. By the end of summer, the smokehou...

Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus Lowe, 1839) are a commercially important species of tuna inhabiting the warm waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacifi c oceans. They are found across the entire Pacifi c between northern Japan and North Island of New Zealand in the west and from 40°N to 30°S in the east (Calkins, 1980; Matsumoto, 1998). Adult bigeye tuna are caught mainly by longlines, but substant...

The laparoscopic surgery laboratory was created by P. Morel, MD, Head of the Department of Surgery, Hospital of Geneva, in 1993. Originally, we used pigs for all kinds of training, as many other laboratories do. After one year of practice, it appeared to me that the use of pigs was not as efficient as we thought it would be besides raising many ethical questions. The problem at that time, was h...

OBJECTIVES Gait and mobility problems are difficult to treat in people with Parkinson's disease. The Rehabilitation in Parkinson's Disease: Strategies for Cueing (RESCUE) trial investigated the effects of a home physiotherapy programme based on rhythmical cueing on gait and gait-related activity. METHODS A single-blind randomised crossover trial was set up, including 153 patients with Parkins...

I F A SERUM contains a gamma globulin which will react with ( agglutinate, hemolyze or sens tize ) certain enetically well-defined red blood cells but not others, it is said to possess an antibody and the antibody is said to be specific for a certain property of the red cells. Thus the specificity of an antibody depends on this selective reactivity. This is often difficult to demonstrate if the...

This study investigated two hypotheses: 1) that consistent between-boar variation in frozen semen quality exists and is genetically determined, and 2) that morphologically distinct subpopulations of spermatozoa exist within fresh boar ejaculates and that the incidence of these subpopulations is correlated with semen quality following cryopreservation. Five ejaculates were collected from each of...

INTRODUCTION For the clinicians who have been involved in clinical and translational research the management of patient’s information, together with sample collection, sample processing and storage has been frequently a nightmare. Lack of time for adequately observing patients, combined with shortage of logistic support for research associated activities during the medical appointment, were cle...

Many metabolomics studies use mixtures of (acidified) methanol and water for sample extraction. In the present study, we investigated if the extraction with methanol can result in artifacts. To this end, wheat leaves were extracted with mixtures of native and deuterium-labeled methanol and water, with or without 0.1% formic acid. Subsequently, the extracts were analyzed immediately or after sto...

The series of papers in this issue reflects the present state of knowledge on opportunistic infections of laboratory rodents and provides speculation into where the field is headed. What has not been covered is the phenomenal growth in knowledge of murine infectious diseases over the last 50 yr. Remarkably, more than 60 genera of overtly or opportunistically pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi,...

This paper presents an investigation of the microbiological quality of poultry meat sold on the Croatian market. Bacteriological analysis was performed on 66 samples of fresh, retail-cut chicken meat (21 samples of chicken breasts without skin “fillet”, and 19 samples of chicken breasts with skin) and frozen ground chicken meat (26 samples). Samples were collected from retailers (kept in coolin...