The southern cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, is no doubt the most economically important ectoparasite of cattle globally. The inappropriate use of chemical acaricides has driven the evolution of resistance in populations of R. (B.) microplus. Anti-tick vaccines represent a technology that can be combined with acaricides in integrated control programs to mitigate the impa...

patients and methods this retrospective cohort study included 405 renal transplant patients from kerman university of medical sciences hospital, kerman, iran from 2004 to 2010. kaplan-meier method was used to estimate survival rates of patients, and time-dependent cox regression was used to examine the effect of allograft failure on patient survival. results during 4.06 years (median) of follow...

Development of veterinary subunit vaccines comes with a spectrum challenges, such as the choice adjuvant, antigen delivery vehicle, and optimization dosing strategy. Over years, our laboratory has largely focused on investigating silica vesicles (SVs) for developing effective multiple targets. Rhipicephalus microplus (cattle tick) are known to have high impact cattle health livestock industry i...

In the recent issue ofBMC Biotechnology 20011:2, Manuel Rodriguez Valle, Carlos Montero, Hector Machado and Marisdania Joglar published a paper entitled "The evaluation of yeast derivatives as adjuvant for the immune response to the Bm86 antigen in cattle" [http:/ /www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6750/1/2] .This is the same paper that we prepared with them and submitted in 1998 to Experimental and A...

Bovine babesiosis, also known as cattle fever, is a tick-borne protozoal disease foreign to the United States. It was eradicated by eliminating the vector species, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus and Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, through the efforts of the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program (CFTEP), with the exception of a permanent quarantine zone (PQZ) in south Texas along the b...

Introduction: Dorsal nasal irregularity is a complication of rhinoplasty surgery, mostly seen in patients with thin skin. Acellular dermis (CenoDerm) and homologous fascia lata covering the nasal bone cartilage structure have been used to achieve a smooth surface. In this study, we aimed to investigate clinical outcomes using these two materials. Materials and Methods: After a standard rhinopla...

adenoviruses are used extensively to deliver genes into mammalian cells, particularly where there is a requirement for high-level expression of transgene products in cultured cells, or for use as recombinant viral vaccines or in gene therapy. in spite of their usefulness, the construction of adenoviral vectors (adv) is a cumbersome and lengthy process that is not readily amenable to the generat...

background: the homologous recombination (hr) is one of the conventional cloning methods for the production of recombinant dna. it is a quick method for in vivo dna cloning without using the high cost restriction enzymes. a few modifications in the cloning procedure can increase the efficiency of this method. m aterials and methods: in this study, effect of heating on the rate of the igg1 heavy...

introduction: dorsal nasal irregularity is a complication of rhinoplasty surgery, mostly seen in patients with thin skin. acellular dermis (cenoderm) and homologous fascia lata covering the nasal bone cartilage structure have been used to achieve a smooth surface. in this study, we aimed to investigate clinical outcomes using these two materials. materials and methods: after a standard rhinopla...