Twenty healthy 6-month-old male and female New Zealand rabbits with a mean body weight of 3.5±0.5 kg were fed a standard commercial rabbit diet and provided with water ad libitum containing 40 mg F/L for 70 days. Blood samples were obtained from each rabbit, and sera adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity and Creactive protein (CRP) and ceruloplasmin (CP) levels were determined with the following r...

1. Gamma globulin metabolism and distribution were studied employing rabbit gamma globulin (RGG)I(131) 24 times in 13 control rabbits. Similar studies were performed before and during the ananmestic response in 4 rabbits previously sensitized with a polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine. 2. During the ananmestic response, gamma-globulin levels increased from 1.0 to 6.0 gm/100 ml, and the gamma-globul...

Aim: The trials were designed on 30 lambs of age below 2 weeks exhibiting the symptoms of colibacillosis. Materials and Methods: Isolation of organism and identification of pathogenic Escherichia coli was confirmed by standard cultural, microbiological, serological, and biochemical tests. Venous blood was collected aseptically for hematological studies. Result: Bacteriological examinations of f...

A study of 16 haematological and 24 biochemical parameters in healthy, adult, male, volunteer Saudi blood donors was made, and enabled a preliminary determination of the reference values for these parameters to be made for Saudi Arabia. Statistically significant low means were observed for all the haematological parameters except the mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration which was raised a...

D URING the past twenty years, it has come to be realized that antibodies are produced in a cell complex which has become popularly known by the rather unwieldy term of “immunologically competent cells.” This complex consists not only of reticulum cells, which were the first to be generally considered as antibody producers, but of lymphocytes and plasmocytes as well. The role of the plasmocyte ...

A cow with history of fever, anorexia, sudden milk drop and stiff gait was referred to the Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, College of Veterinary Science; Proddatur. Examination of the cow revealed fever, tachycardia, tachypnoea, with ruminal atony associated with mild bloat and dehydration was noticed. The cow exhibited light pain while palpation at brisket region. Hot and pain full edema...

Although bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from an HLA identical sibling is considered as treatment of choice in pediatric patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA), a significant number of them experience graft failure (GF) after BMT. We report a case of an 8-year-old male patient with SAA who presented with a complicated posttransplant course due to parvovirus B19 infection and GF. A subsequ...

Constitutional pure red cell aplasia (CPRCA) is a syndrome of failed erythropoiesis usually diagnosed within the first year of life. Four patients with CPRCA received transplants with marrow from their HLA-identical, mixed lymphocyte culture-nonreactive siblings. All patients were resistant to corticosteroid therapy and were dependent on regular red cell transfusions for at least 5 years. Three...

The transition from animal- to plant-derived dietary proteins is of global importance. Plant are normally processed into extracts, and due the type process, globulin class mainly extracted. Such extractions have several waste streams, containing another protein class: albumins. Here, we show that plant albumins good functionality. We compared interfacial foaming properties globulins mung bean, ...