Infectious bronchitis (IB) is considered one of the most important poultry diseases worldwide. Many cases have been presented in Sri Lanka with similar clinical symptoms to those IB belt areas. Therefore, present study aimed develop IBV rapid detection methods using commercial insulated isothermal Polymerase Chain Reaction (iiPCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) broilers, layers, ...

BACKGROUND Analysis of clinical samples from patients with new viral infections is critical to confirm the diagnosis, to specify the viral load, and to sequence data necessary for characterizing the viral kinetics, transmission, and evolution. We analyzed samples from 112 patients infected with the recently discovered Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). METHODS Respirator...

The activity of phosphorylase kinase and myosin light chain kinase can be regulated by calcium-calmodulin or cyclic AMP. Since phosphorylation of the 20,000dalton phosphorylatable light chain (P-light chain) of myosin may be involved in the regulation of contractile activity in smooth muscle, we examined the relationship between P-light chain phosphorylation, phosphorylase a formation, and isom...

  Introduction: Tracheal stenosis is normally caused by trauma, infection, benign and malignant tumors, prolonged intubation or tracheostomy. The best treatment for tracheal stenosis is resection and anastomosis of trachea. Yet the major surgical complication of tracheal surgery is postoperative stenosis. The goal of this paper is to study the result of tracheal stenting as a replacement therap...

ornithobacterium rhinotracheale (ort) is a respiratory pathogen which has been isolated throughout the world from numerous bird species. the present study was designed to isolate and characterize the ort from domestic turkeys, quails and pigeons. for this purpose, 250 samples from each bird species (turkey, quail and pigeon) with or without respiratory signs were tested by taking of tracheal...

abstract: ornithobacterium rhinotracheale (ort) has been identified as one of the emerging respiratory bacterial pathogens in turkey and chicken flocks. diagnosis of ort infection has been faced some difficulties in isolation and identification of the bacterium based on the biochemical properties. a reliable identification method that can be used in routine laboratory investigations is of impor...

Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) undergoes tyrosine phosphorylation in response to the contractile stimulation of tracheal smooth muscle. We hypothesized that FAK may play an important role in signaling pathways that regulate smooth muscle contraction. FAK antisense or FAK sense was introduced into muscle strips by reversible permeabilization, and strips were incubated with antisense or sense for 7 ...