This is a prospective, controlled, randomized clinical study to evidence the role of nitrosative stress in development of overt neurological sign of canine distemper (CD). The enrollment of cases wasa made on basis of overt sign of CD (n=139) and the findings were compared with apparently healthy dogs (n=15). The CD specific immunoglobulins resulted in 94 confirmed positive cases. The nitric ox...

abstract objective removing plasma from the platelet concentrate (pc) medium could be an effective way to increase the safety of this product. the goal of this study was to compare pc stored in plasma or in an additive solution (composol) with in vitro testing. materials and methods fifty-four single donor pcs were prepared from iranian blood transfusion organization (ibto). each pc unit was di...

Received: Revised: Accepted: December 31, 2012 June 19, 2013 August 07, 2013 In the present study, effects of stress-free and stressful seasons on certain physical and biochemical attributes of semen of Cholistani AI bulls were investigated. A total of 382 ejaculates from six bulls were collected at weekly intervals during four seasons viz. stress-free autumn (October-November), stressful winte...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of Arctium lappa L. (burdock) on the liver of adult male Wistar rats as measured by light microscopy and biochemical parameters. The rats received the extract in water bottles at doses of 10 or 20 g/L daily for 40 days. There were no significant changes in the plasma levels of albumin, aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT), g...

evaluation of the blood and milk biochemical parameters always is considered as effective key factor for animal health and dairy products. in order to assess the association of kappa-casein (k-cn) genetic variants with blood biochemical indicators, blood samples were randomly and individually collected from 126 iranian guilan native cattle. blood plasma was used to measure blood glucose, urea, ...