We examined the influence of ecological (diet, swamp use, and rainfall) and social (intergroup interaction rate) factors on ranging behavior in one group of western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) during a 16-month study. Relative to mountain gorillas, western gorillas live in habitats with reduced herb densities, more readily available fruit (from seasonal and rare fruit trees), and, at som...

Water buffalo; Interleukin 8; Endometritis; Gene expression; Polymorphic sites Abstract River buffalo (Bubalus bubalis bubalis) with a population over 135 million heads is an important livestock. Interleukin 8 (IL-8) is a member of the chemokine family and is an important chemoattractant for neutrophils associated with a wide variety of inflammatory diseases such as endometritis. Tissue samples...

Buffalo-adapted Theileria parva causes Corridor disease in cattle. Strict control measures therefore apply to the movement of buffalo in South Africa and include mandatory testing of buffalo for the presence of T. parva. The official test is a real-time hybridization PCR assay that amplifies the V4 hypervariable region of the 18S rRNA gene of T. parva, T. sp. (buffalo) and T. sp. (bougasvlei). ...

Background: The objectives of a series of studies undertaken was to improve farm animal reproductive efficiency in terms of embryo production efficiency, conception rate and litter size by immunoneutralization of inhibin in conjunction with other conventional reproductive techniques. Materials and Methods: A recombinant porcine inhibin alpha-subunit mature peptide was produced by mass scale and...

ID: 2645 Mostafa Sabbaghi Graduate Research Assistant Industrial and Systems Engineering Department University at Buffalo, State University of New York Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA [email protected] Sara Behdad Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering Department University at Buffalo, State University of New York Buffalo, NY, 14260,...

1 Medical Physics Group, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology I, Jena University Hospital Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany 2 Department of Neurology, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA 3 MR Imaging Clinical Translational Research Center, School of...

Pathogenesis and Immunology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA 2University of Pittsburgh, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 3Department of Flow Cytometry, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA 4Amnis Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA 5Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA July 2...

Department of Neurosurgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Buffalo General Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece Correspondence to: Ioannis D. Siasios, MD, MSc. University at Buffalo Neurosurgery, 100 High Street, Suite B4, Bu...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of capacitating agents added at in vitro fertilization (IVF) and antioxidants supplemented during in vitro culture (IVC) on the development of buffalo embryos. In experiment I, in vitro embryo development of buffalo embryos was compared when the IVF medium was supplemented with heparin, caffeine and calcium ionophore A23187 either alone or in ...