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Whole blood methaemoglobin concentration in rabbit during a long term treatment with MnSO4
No full textSubsistence hunting and conservation issues in the Game Riserve of Gile, Mozambique
No full textEthnozoological research was conducted to gather information on the hunting activities
and their relevance for the subsistence of local people in 8 villages around the game reserve of Gile,
Mozambique. Two series of data were gathered by questionnaires to: (a) 510 householders from
eight villages located in the outskirts of the Reserve; (b) 10 hunters from the village of Gile, the
main centre of the study area. Several hunting techniques were recorded: spears, nets, traps
(including gin-traps) and wildfires, while the use of guns did not appear relevant. The importance of
subsistence hunting for local people was underlined by the high percentage of respondents who
declared that they usually conduct this activity and sell bushmeat. The proportion of hunters per
village was related to the village size but not to its geographical location of villages and the
household composition. A positive relationship existed between the proportion of hunters, crop
production and fishing activities, indicating that hunting is part of an integrated system of subsistence
activities. Most animals harvested were mammals (89.5%, of which 46.7% were ungulates)
and most were captured within the Reserve (96%). A higher percentage of animals was sold (56%),
representing a relevant income source for the villagers. Small animals were mainly captured by
traps during solitary hunting, medium-sized animals in collective net hunting; larger prey were
captured by gin-traps adopted by both solitary and collective hunting. In the diet of the local people
wild animals represented a higher protein source than domestic animals
Impiego della metodica enzimatico-clorimetrica nella determinazione dei livelli sierici di colesterolo-LDL nel bovino
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Exogenous oxidants in dairy cows: clinical and biochemical findings in nitrates contamination
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Subsistence hunting and bushmeat exploitation in central-western Tanzania. Biodiversity and Conservation
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Cardiac Troponin I (cTnI) concentration in an ovine model of myocardial ischemia
No full textCardiac Troponin I (cTnI) concentration in an ovine model of myocardial ischemia.
Leonardi F, Passeri B, Fusari A, De Razza P, Beghi C, Lorusso R, Corradi A, Botti P.
Source
Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Parma, via Del Taglio 8, 43100 Parma, Italy. [email protected]
Abstract
Cardiac Troponin I (cTnI) is a polypeptide involved in myocardial contraction and has been shown to be a highly sensitive biomarker of myocardial injury in humans. Chronic myocardial ischemia was induced in eight adult sheep by anterior coronary artery legation. Forty-five days after coronary artery legation, sheep underwent autologous myoblasts implantation to the infarct area to improve local tissue regeneration. Blood samples were taken at regular intervals before and after the induced coronary ischemia and myoblast implantation and serum levels of cTnI were assessed with chemiluminescent immunodosage using a commercially available anti-human cTnI monoclonal antibody. cTnI levels began to increase the day after coronary legation and after myoblast implantation and gradually recovered to physiological levels in the next 14 days. Furthermore, the commercial anti-human antibody was shown to completely cross react with the ovine polypeptide as well as with canine, swine and equine sera
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