Myosin heavy chain (MyHC), one of the major components in the contractile machinery of skeletal muscle fibers, is found in several isoforms during myogenesis. During chicken development, embryonic, neonatal, and adult MyHC isoforms are expressed. Broiler chickens have been selected for fast and large muscle growth, whereas Single Comb White Leghorn (SCWL) chickens have been selected for egg lay...

A method was developed to determine the survival of Campylobacter jejuni at specific sites on chicken skin, and this method was used to observe the survival of C. jejuni at various locations on the skin during storage. This method uses confocal scanning laser microscopy to visualize C. jejuni transformed with P(c)gfp plasmid (GFP-Campylobacter) and stained with 5-cyano-2,3-ditolyl tetrazolium c...

A large number of studies on a lkaline phosphatase (AP) of chicken plasma have been made during the past forty years. Most of those studies are on the enzymic activity and the polymorphic studies are relatively few . In most of the polymorphic studies of chicken plasma AP, a starch gel electrophoresis has been employed. Major results by other investigators'"' may be summarized as follows. AP co...

Myosin was localized in situ in the posthatch chicken pectoralis using isoform-specific mAbs. The distribution among myofibrils was demonstrated by immunofluorescence and by immunogold EM. Fluorescein- or rhodamine-labeled antibody (12C5) specific for the head region (S1) of myosin was used as a marker to identify "embryonic" myosin. In longitudinal semithin frozen sections, a minority populati...

Prematurely erupted teeth are rare in fullterm neonates and extremely prematurely delivered infants. The aim of this study was to present macroscopic scanning electron microscopy (SEM) investigations primary preterm very low birthweight (VLBW) (ELBW) Three VLBW ELBW infants with lower incisors were examined. dental examination assessed the type, location, clinical appearance, degree mobility te...

background and objectives: varicella–zoster virus (vzv) is a human herpes virus that usually attacks young children and commonly causes chicken pox (varicella). following primary infection, a lifelong latent infection is established. the virus often reactivates during adulthood or senesces to cause shingles (zoster). little is known regarding the genotypes of varicella in kuwait. the aim of thi...