Five camelid trackways from Arizona and New Mexico are described. Two trackways from the Bear Springs Badland (early Blancan) of Graham County, Arizona, represent a large camel, possibly Camelops or Megatylopus, and a medium-sized camel, possibly Hemiauchenia or Pleiolama. We also describe three camelid trackways from New Mexico. A medial Miocene (late Barstsovian) trackway from the Benavidez R...

BACKGROUND Human brucellosis is common in southern Israel among the semi-nomadic Bedouin, a population that consumes unpasteurized dairy products. Though camel milk ingestion is a known mechanism for brucellosis acquisition, only a few reports of sporadic cases have been published in the medical literature. OBJECTIVES To describe a local brucellosis outbreak in 15 extended Bedouin family memb...

BACKGROUND Pastoral social-ecological systems (SESs) are adaptive and complex systems rooted in the extensive exploitation of forage plants for livestock-based livelihoods and culture. There are species and relations that are foundational to the existence of these SESs. Nucularia perrinii Batt. (Chenopodiaceae) is an endemic halophyte plant of central and western Sahara seldom cited in the scie...

PURPOSE The production of camel heavy-chain antihuman IgE (huIgE) that has the potential to block IgE-FcεRI interaction and histamine release by basophils. METHODS Camels were immunized with a synthetic loop peptide (SLP) designed in a multiple antigen peptide system (MAPS) forming SLP-MAPS immunogen. Camel polyclonal antibodies (PCAs) were produced, purified, characterized using Protein A & ...

The paper presents an approach to detection of service interaction. Service interaction manifests itself as a function of services which is neither exactly the sum of every service nor behaves as expected. In Customized Application for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL), services may interact both in call-related and callunrelated context. Description logic is used to formally define the CAM...

This paper reports on the design and fabrication of a High Temperature Short Time (HTST) camel milk pasteurization pilot plant. The objective of this project is to design and fabricate a low cost and practical camel milk pasteurization pilot plant which will work well in an agricultural setting in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Fresh camel milk is a much sought after delicacies in the Arab world,...

Myostatin, also called growth differentiation factor-8 (GDF-8), is a member of the mammalian growth transforming family (TGF-beta superfamily), which is expressed specifically in developing an adult skeletal muscle. Muscular hypertrophy allele (mh allele) in the double muscle breeds involved mutation within the myostatin gene. Genomic DNA was isolated from the camel hair using NucleoSpin Tissue...

The present investigation was carried out to evaluate anticancer activity of cow, goat, sheep, mare, donkey and camel milks and their casein and whey proteins against MCF7 cell line. The structure-based properties of the casein proteins were also investigated, using bioinformatics tools to find explanation for their antitumor activities. The effect of different milks and their casein and whey p...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a serious disease affects human health. Diabetes in advanced stages is accompanied by general weakness and alteration in fats and carbohydrates metabolism. Recently there are some scientific trends about the usage of camel milk (CM) in the treatment of diabetes and its associated alterations. CM contains vital active particles with insulin like action that cure diabetes a...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the anti-schistosomal activity of colostral and mature camel milk on Schistosoma mansoni infected mice. Six weeks post infection, mean percentage of protection was detected through the hepatic portal vein. Glutathione-s-transferase (GST), alanine, aspartate transaminase (ALT and AST) and immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels were detected in sera of treat...