Pets are useful to people in the psychological sense. Livestock, poultry and working animals cannot be surrogates for pets. In the modern society pets are gaining more and more importance. In Turkey, too, pet-keeping is getting to be a widespread practice in recent times. Pets represent animal love and they especially contribute to children’s healthy emotional development.

What makes humans a unique species? How did ancient evolve to live together and cooperate with each other? Research on the evolution of prehistoric shows that we have some characteristics in common domesticated animals, like dogs, cows, pigs. These similarities led researchers propose human species has also undergone type domestication, which decreased our aggression increased social nature. In...

The production of transgenic animals has many biotechnological applications; however, available techniques still remain inefficient. This review summarizes the contributions of our group to transgenesis in domestic animal. One of the most traditional transgenesis techniques in farm animals is somatic cell nuclear transfer using genetically modified somatic cells. Using this technique, we produc...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PUFA: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid; PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction; DNA: Deoxyribonucleic Acid; RNA: Ribonucleic Acid; SFA: Saturated Fatty Acid; MUFA: Monounsaturated Fatty Acid; SCD: Δ9-desaturase; FASN: Fatty Acids Synthase; STAT5: Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 5; CEBPA: CCAAT/Enhancer-Binding protein (alpha); CLA:...

Coronaviruses infect a wide variety of animals, including birds and mammals, where they cause infection in mutate disease outbreaks humans. The review focused on the origin spread SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals. A systematic literature search PubMed, ProMed-mail, Google Scholar databases, using keywords "animals", "COVID-19", "SARS-CoV-2", for articles providing information animal studies ca...

INTRODUCTION Among allergic patients, pet avoidance is commonly recommended. It is difficult for patients to accomplish this because of their emotional attachment to the pets, and its effectiveness is controversial. OBJECTIVE To explore the applicability and effectiveness of pet avoidance measures among sensitized patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 288 patients with asthma, rhinit...

Abstract China plays a critical role in global biodiversity conservation, as both hotspot and for its international domestic animal trade. Efforts to promote wildlife conservation have sparked interest the attitudes held by Chinese citizens towards animals. Using questionnaire, we sought investigate of 317 nationals across 22 provincial-level administrative units regarding their uses animals, p...