The aim of the present study was to evaluate stress response in rabbits using heterophil/lymphocyte ratio as indirect stress marker. Twenty male rabbits of the New Zealand White breed at the age of 4 months were randomly allocated into two groups: control - reared under low air ammonia levels...

The objective of this study was to determine the impact of ginger and/or thyme aqueous extracts administration on the growth rate, caecum activity, reproductive performance and semen quality of rabbits. A total of 24 V-line male rabbits at the age of 12 weeks were divided randomly into four equal...

Cryptocaryoniasis is a severe disease of farmed marine fish caused by the parasitic ciliate Cryptocaryon irritans. This disease can lead to considerable economic loss, but studies on proteins linked to disease development and antigenic proteins for vaccine development have been relatively scarce to ...

Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies are primarily involved in secondary immune response in animals, and can be targeted for inducing passive immunization in chickens against pathogens. There is dearth of literature on the IgG status of chickens in India, particularly of Vanaraja, a new synthetic dual ...

Vibrio cholerae O54 TV113 isolated from a diarrheal patient produces an extracellular cytotoxin that caused alteration in the morphology of Chinese hamster ovary cells manifested as cell shrinkage with intact cell boundaries and finally causing cell death. Syncase medium supplemented with...

The effectiveness of gelonin to arrest protein synthesis, thereby limiting the growth of cancer cells was studied by encapsulating it into liposomes. The protein was extracted from the seeds of Indian plant Gelonium multiflorum by ammonium sulfate precipitation and purified using cation-exchange...

A lectin was purified from the rhizomes of Curcuma amarissima Roscoe by aqueous extraction, fractionation with 80% saturated ammonium sulfate, and a combination of affinity and gel chromatography on ConA Sepharose and Superdex G-75, respectively. The molecular mass of the purified lectin was 32.4...

In this study, serum IgM from C. auratus was purified by precipitation of an ammonium sulfate-saturated solution followed by Sephadex G-200 chromatography. A rabbit polyclonal antibody against serum IgM was linked to the Sepharose 4B in order to make an affinity column, upon which IgM was separated ...

A novel toxic protein from Glycine max seeds, named Gm-TX, was purified by combination of differential precipitation with ammonium sulphate, DEAE-cellulose, anhydrotrypsin-sepharose 4B and Superdex 200 HR fast-protein liquid chromatography. Gm-TX is composed of one polypeptide chain of 28 kDa...

Objective - To establish a sensitive test for the detection of autoantibodies against thyroid peroxidase (TPO) in canine serum samples. Sample Population - 365 serum samples from dogs with hypothyroidism as determined on the basis of serum concentrations of total and free triiodothyronine (T₃),...