AIM The study was undertaken to find out the changes in hematobiochemical profile in post-partum Surti goats. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study was conducted on 40 Surti goats out of which 20 goats who had undergone recent parturition acted as treatment group and 20 non-pregnant animals comprised control group. Blood samples were collected from the treatment group on 0, 7, 14, 21, 30, a...

A method utilizin g picosecond u ltrason ics, combin ed with a pump-probe therm oreflectance techn iqu e, for the sim u ltan eou s m easu rem ent of thin -film th ickness and thermal condu ctiv ity norm al to the su rface is presen ted. Th is techniqu e is a non con tact m ethod that is u sefu l for determ in in g thermophysica l properties of film s with th ickness grad ien ts or for film s in...

Suppose n is a fixed positive integer. We introduce the relative n-th non-commuting graph ΓH,G, associated to the nonabelian subgroup H of group G. The vertex set is G \ C H,G in which C H,G = {x ∈ G : [x, y] = 1 and [x, y] = 1 for all y ∈ H}. Moreover, {x, y} is an edge if x or y belong to H and xy 6= yx or xy 6= yx. In fact, the relative n-th commutativity degree, Pn(H,G) the probability that...

the objectives of this work were to study the association of maternal smoking habits with stillbirths, abortions, neonatal deaths, birth weights, placental weights and the outcomes on the 28(th) day of life.a questionnaire was developed and completed with the hospitals' recorded data collected over a period of 5 years from 47,000 babies born in several hospitals in ontario, canada. the mothers ...

Light has been shown to increase dopamine synthesis and release in vertebrate retinas, but the retinal circuits mediating the light signal are unknown. We utilized three antibodies which recognize phosphorylated forms of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) at serines 19, 31, and 40 to study the effects of light and neuroactive drugs on TH phosphorylation in the rat retina. Phosphorylated TH and total TH ...

Depth profiles of total Th (dissolved+particulate) were collected at Station ALOHA (22145N, 158100W) in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre during 9 cruises from April 1999 to March 2000. Samples were collected and processed by a new 2L technique that enables more detailed depth resolution then previous Th studies. Significant zones of particle export (Th deficiency) and particle remineralizatio...

We have investigated in vitro the induction of antibody responses to phosphorylcholine (PC) by cloned T helper (Th) cell lines. The cloned Th cells are antigen specific, in this case ovalbumin (OVA), self-Ia recognizing, and induce antibody secretion only if the hapten, PC, is physically linked to the carrier (OVA) molecule. The plaque-forming cell (PFC) response generated in the presence of cl...

PURPOSE To examine the possible late complications of splenectomy or spleen autotransplantation in large laboratory animal model, in which we need non-invasive or minimal-invasive methods for long-term monitoring of the experimental animals. METHODS Experimental groups of beagle dogs were: non-operated control, sham-operated control, splenectomy, spleen autotransplantation with 5 or 10 spleen...