The objective of this study was to compare the effect of two conventional H9N2 avian influenza (AI) vaccines on replication and shedding of the H9N2 AI virus in broiler chickens. These inactivated oil emulsion vaccines ...

licensed dairy farms in the central region of Fars province were randomly selected in order to participate in aseasonal prevalence study. A cross-sectional study was designed to determine prevalence at cow and quarterlevel ...

The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of enterotoxigenic and enteroaggregative strains ofEscherichia coli in chicken carcasses by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In this study 63 strains of E. coliwere ...

An aborted female Holstein foetus with marked generalized anasarca was referred to the Excellence Centre for Ruminant Abortion and Neonatal Mortality, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. On postmortem examination, red-tinged ...

Feline herpesvirus 1 (FeHV-1) and feline calicivirus (FCV), associated with upper respiratory tract disease, are highly prevalent in cats worldwide. With the aim of investigating the importance of FeHV-1 in a population ...

In order to study the role of the kidney in fish osmoregulation, freshwater acclimatized juvenile spottedscat (Scatophagus argus L.) were subjected to four different salinities and observed for histomorphometricchanges of ...

In this paper, the metazoan parasite community system of Capoeta damascina in the Tigris basin (Mesopotamian region) in the Middle-East is presented. Overall, 54 species have been identified. Between 2005 and 2008, Iranian ...

An in vitro experiment was conducted to study the effect of non-fiber carbohydrates (NFC) on ruminaldisappearance kinetics of dry matter (DM) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) of alfalfa hay, wheat bran andunmolassed sugar ...

The effects of two Iranian medicinal plants including Zataria multiflora and Geranium pelargoniumwere evaluated on growth-inhibiting of some toxigenic fungi such as Aspergillus flavus, A. parasiticus, A.ochraceus and ...

The aim of the present study was to find the effects of pre and post vitrification taxol treatment on bovineimmature cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs). Bovine ovaries were collected from the local slaughterhousein a container ...

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of exogenous histamine and H1 and H2 central receptorson electrocardiographic (ECG) parameters, heart rate and mean electrical axis in broiler chickens. For thispurpose, Ross ...

Prolactin is mainly secreted by the anterior pituitary and is able to stimulate mammary gland development and lactation in mammalians. Although prolactins share a common ancestral gene encoding, they show species specific ...