vampirolepis nana is the most common cestode in humans especially children. domestic mice and rats can serve as definitive hosts for v. nana. confusion exists over the species status and host-specificity of this tapeworm. in a previous study done by the same authors it was found that the egyptian human isolates of v. nana could be used to infect mice for experimental work. eggs in human feces a...

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the retinal toxicity of a single dose of intravitreal docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in rabbit eyes over a short-term period. METHODS Sixteen New Zealand albino rabbits were selected for this pre-clinical study. Six concentrations of DHA (Brudy Laboratories, Barcelona, Spain) were prepared: 10 mg/50 µl, 5 mg/50 µl, 2'5 mg/50 µl, 50 µg/50 µl...

After injury, inflammation, or degeneration, articular cartilage has limited self-repair ability. We aimed to explore the feasibility of repair of articular cartilage defects with tissue-engineered cartilage constructed by acellular cartilage matrices (ACMs) seeded with adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs). The ADSCs were isolated from 3-month-old New Zealand albino rabbit by using collagenase an...

PURPOSE To develop a new corneal storage medium with a simple formula and evaluate it by histological methods. METHODS Two corneal storage media containing minimum essential medium and 2.5% chondroitin sulfate (pH 7.33), with osmolarity of 320 mOsm/kg, were compared to Optisol-GS. The differences in the two media were the molecular weight (MW) and the source of chondroitin sulfate. The MW of ...

The early studies of Redaelli (1924) and Benham (1931) have shown that the rabbit is readily susceptible to infection produced by the intravenous inoculation of Candida albicans. The mouse was considered to be resistant to disease by this yeast. This concept was apparently based upon the fact that mice are resistant to infection following intraabdominal injection; however, rabbits also are resi...

The study was conducted in thirty-two healthy, normal adult albino rabbits (1.5-2.0 kg) equally divided into four groups. Each rabbit was fed 100 g of Hindustan Gold Mohr (HGM) rabbit feed daily for a month which was fully consumed. The rabbits had free access to food and water. Fasting blood samples were drawn at the end of fourth week to obtain control values of blood sugar (6). Thereafter, 1...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to investigate metabolic changes in aqueous humor from rabbit eyes exposed to either UV-A or -B radiation, by using (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and unsupervised pattern recognition METHODS methods. Both eyes of adult albino rabbits were irradiated with UV-A (366 nm, 0.589 J/cm(2)) or UV-B (312 nm, 1.667 J/cm(2)) radiation for 8 minutes, ...

The early studies of Redaelli (1924) and Benham (1931) have shown that the rabbit is readily susceptible to infection produced by the intravenous inoculation of Candida albicans. The mouse was considered to be resistant to disease by this yeast. This concept was apparently based upon the fact that mice are resistant to infection following intraabdominal injection; however, rabbits also are resi...