| characteristics of cells derived from the girdle region of the pre-implantation blastocyst of the donkey. | the establishment of a monolayer culture of cells derived from the girdle region of a 34-day-old donkey conceptus is described. these cells have had over 100 repeated passages in culture. low levels of pregnant mares' serum gonadotrophin (pmsg, ecg) could be detected in the cells by indirect immunofluorescence using some monoclonal anti-ecg antibodies, but the cells did not secrete ecg as measured by radioimmunoassay or inhibition of haemagglutination. there was marked nuclear polymorphism with ... | 1986 | 3779812 |
| gastro-intestinal helminths of donkeys in burkina faso. | thirty adult donkeys from burkina faso were necropsied and their gastro-intestinal worm burdens counted and determined. the strongylids were the most abundant species with a prevalence of 100% for strongylus vulgaris. four species of strongylus, two of triodontophorus and six of the cyathostominae were recovered. all of the animals were also infested with habronematid nematodes, but oxyurid and ascaridid nematodes were found in low numbers. in addition to the nematodes, the paramphistomid tremat ... | 1986 | 3799012 |
| dourine in southern africa 1981-1984: serological findings from the veterinary research institute, onderstepoort. | the distribution of positive dourine cases found on the complement fixation test at the veterinary research institute, onderstepoort from 1981 to 1984, is recorded. within the republic of south africa, foci of infection occurred in the johannesburg, pretoria, potchefstroom, rustenburg, upington, lichtenburg, kroonstad, louis trichardt, middelburg (cape) and mossel bay state veterinary districts. in bophuthatswana, transkei, lesotho, south west africa and swaziland, positive cases were also recor ... | 1986 | 3806561 |
| [normal values of the hematological, biochemical and enzymological indices of the donkey]. | studied were a total of 85 (33 male and 52 female) donkeys of the martina franca breed of the domestic ass, aged from one to twelve years. stated are the results for the normal values of hemoglobin, hematocrit, esr, total erythrocyte and leukocyte counts, leukocyte formula, blood sugar, cholesterin, urea, total protein and protein fractions, some micro- and macroelements, and enzymes as tabulated in four diagrams. no differences have been established with regard to sex. it has been found that wi ... | 1986 | 3811208 |
| species-specific non-expression of ribosomal rna genes in a mammalian hybrid, the mule. | the expression of nucleolus organizer activity in diploid cells was investigated in a model system for mammalian hybrids, the horse-ass cross (mule), by means of sequential ag-nor and chromomycin a3/distamycin a-dapi (cdd) staining in lectin-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes (pbl). as a rule we found species-specific non-expression of the horse-derived nor chromosomes in the mule, whereas the ass-derived nor chromosomes were active. the results of pbl interphase studies were compatible wit ... | 1986 | 3829827 |
| serological studies on leptospirosis in livestock and chickens from grenada and trinidad. | sera from 1,206 livestock animals and chickens on grenada and trinidad were tested for leptospiral antibodies by the microscopic agglutination test. 376 of the sera were positive (25% of those tested on grenada and 44% on trinidad). the positive sera were obtained from 25% of 324 cattle, 35% of 130 pigs, 35% of 146 sheep, 25% of 44 goats and 11% of 175 chickens on grenada; and 92% of 26 cattle, 53% of 122 pigs, 76% of 87 horses and donkeys and 11% of 144 chickens on trinidad. eight sera from duc ... | 1985 | 3832496 |
| the clinical relevance of classes of immunoglobulins on spermatozoa from infertile and vasovasostomized males. | following reversal of vasectomy, conceptions occur even when antisperm antibodies are present in the seminal plasma, but this is most unusual in men with similar titers of such antibodies who are spontaneously infertile. to clarify the differences between antisperm antibodies occurring in infertile men and those associated with vasectomy reversal, we have studied 23 spontaneously infertile men and 22 men who underwent vasectomy reversal, all of whom had antisperm antibodies detected in seminal p ... | 1985 | 3872817 |
| a fundamental study of the microencapsulation procedure utilizing coacervation in a polystyrene-cyclohexane solution. | coacervation in polystyrene (ps)-cyclohexane solution induced by the lowering of temperature was utilized to investigate the fundamental problems involved in the microencapsulation procedure. polydispersity of ps played a vital role in determining variables at the critical state of phase separation, such as the composition of coacervate (dense) and lean phases. this also depended on temperature. observations revealed that microcapsules of glass beads consist of a wall with a thin film of ps cove ... | 1985 | 3880489 |
| chemiluminescence immunoassay of plasma progesterone, with progesterone-acridinium ester used as the labeled antigen. | this simple solid-phase chemiluminescence immunoassay for measurement of progesterone in extracts of venous plasma has sensitivity and precision similar to that of conventional radioimmunoassay with use of a tritiated antigen. the labeled antigen, 11 alpha-progesteryl-2-succinoyltyramine-4-(10-methyl)-acridini um-9-carboxylate, and a monoclonal antibody to progesterone-11 alpha-succinyl-bovine serum albumin are incubated with a 100-microl aliquot of plasma extract (equivalent to 20 microl of pla ... | 1985 | 3899408 |
| treatment of sickle cell disease in early childhood in jamaica. | the jamaican sickle cell cohort study, based on neonatal diagnosis of all cases of sickle cell disease among 100,000 consecutive births, has identified acute splenic sequestration (ass) and pneumococcal disease as the most important complications in early life. the etiology of ass is unknown and prophylaxis is therefore not possible. for first attacks, attention has been directed to parental education to achieve earlier diagnosis. recurrent attacks may be prevented by prophylactic splenectomy. a ... | 1985 | 3907390 |
| sensory nerve endings in the peroneus tertius muscle of the ass and horse: a functional hypothesis. | the various types of sensory nerve endings found in the peroneus tertius muscle in the ass and in the horse have been studied with ruffini's gold chloride method. free nerve endings have been described as well as encapsulated receptors. these corpuscles are classified as pacini-like, ruffini's terminations and also golgi's tendon-organs. the authors have pointed out the morphology, topography and structural characteristics of the above named nervous terminations and have hypothesized that a prob ... | 1985 | 3916144 |
| inheritance of equus asinus serum albumin variants in hybrid offspring. | data from mule offspring of mares bred to an ai-cd jack document that the control of ai-c and ai-d zone variants in equus asinus is due to the action of autosomal, codominant alleles, aic and aid. | 1985 | 3980976 |
| epidemiology of hydatid disease in kenya: a study of the domestic intermediate hosts in masailand. | the results are given of a study on the epidemiological significance of cattle, sheep and goats in maintaining the life-cycle of echinococcus granulosus in masailand, kenya. a total of 134 (8.9%) of 1499 cattle, 146 (8.1%) of 1798 sheep and 144 (7.1%) of 2020 goats slaughtered in abattoirs in masailand were found to harbour hydatid cysts. the frequency distribution of the hydatid cysts in each intermediate host species was over-dispersed. of 729 cattle cysts examined 71 (9.7%) were fertile (cyst ... | 1985 | 4002289 |
| contagious equine metritis: experimental infection in the donkey. | contagious equine metritis (cem) was reproduced in 3 of 4 donkey mares with an irish streptomycin-resistant strain of haemophilus equigenitalis isolated from an experimental case of the disease in a pony mare. although some variability in clinical response occurred, there was no evidence that semen enhanced the clinical severity of the infection. variable amounts of vaginal discharge and associated inflammatory changes of the vagina and/or cervix, similar to those seen in the horse, were observe ... | 1985 | 4002608 |
| breed and species comparison of amino acid transport variation in equine erythrocytes. | the amino acid permeability of red blood cells from equus caballus (thoroughbred, arab, shire and pony), e przewalskii (przewalski's horse), e asinus (donkey and mule) and e burchelli (common or plains zebra) was measured. individual animals exhibited stable but widely differing rates of l-[u-14c]alanine uptake in the range 5 to 1554 mumol (litre cells)-1 h-1 (0.2 mm extracellular l-alanine, 37 degrees c). of the thoroughbreds tested, 30 per cent had red blood cells which were essentially imperm ... | 1985 | 4012037 |
| spinal nematodosis in a donkey with posterior paresis. | spinal nematodosis in a four-year-old donkey is described. the animal showed progressive hindlimb paresis of sudden onset. necropsy revealed extensive degeneration and inflammation in the lumbosacral part of the spinal cord, caused by a nematode larva of the suborder strongylina, probably l4 or l5 of strongylus vulgaris. | 1985 | 4013051 |
| acute splenic sequestration in homozygous sickle cell disease: natural history and management. | of a cohort of 308 children with homozygous sickle cell disease diagnosed at birth, 89 experienced 132 clinically significant attacks of acute splenic sequestration (ass) over a 10-year period. the age at first attack ranged from 3 months to 6 years. survival curve analysis of the interval until first attack indicated a cumulative probability of 0.225 by 2 years, and 0.265 by 3 years, and 0.297 by 5 years of age. thirteen events were fatal, 11 during the first attack, and all before transfusion ... | 1985 | 4020541 |
| onchocerca raillieti: prevalence and pathology in sudanese donkeys. | onchocerca raillieti was found to be prevalent in sudanese donkeys. the parasite was reported from central, northern, western and eastern sudan and was most predominant in the last locality. the pathological changes produced by adult worms in the ligamentum nuchae are mostly chronic and do not seem to cause any clinical manifestations. likewise, the microfilariae, though found in high densities in the skin with a "spill over" into the eyes, produce no pathological changes in either the skin or e ... | 1985 | 4031130 |
| detection of staphylo-coagulase using plasmas from various animals. | the effect of sources of staphylococcus aureus and plasmas, concentration of plasma, temperature and duration of incubation on coagulase-test results was evaluated. using s. aureus strains of food origin, the value of plasmas in coagulase tests was, in order of superiority, human and rabbit greater than pig greater than donkey greater than chicken greater than cattle greater than duck greater than goat greater than dog. however, with staphylococcal isolates of animal origin the order was cattle ... | 1985 | 4035959 |
| male mule foal qualifies as the offspring of a female mule and jack donkey. | whereas mules are normally considered sterile, reports of fertile female mules persist. however, none subjected to cytogenetical and blood typing analyses could be confirmed as having indeed been mules that transmitted maternal markers to their alleged offspring. reported here is the case of a cytogenetically verified female mule whose alleged male foal qualifies as offspring by a male donkey. the male foal is karyotypically a mule. | 1985 | 4056372 |
| a liquid-phase immunoradiometric assay (irma) for human sex hormone binding globulin (shbg). | an immunoradiometric assay (irma) for sex hormone binding globulin (shbg) has been developed in which an 125i-labeled monoclonal antibody [( 125i]s1b5) and a rabbit anti-shbg antiserum (rab) are incubated in "liquid-phase" with standards or samples, and rab-bound complexes are separated using donkey anti-rabbit igg antibody-coated cellulose. this immunoassay technique is characterized by several advantages; the [125i]s1b5 imparts additional specificity and obviates the requirement for pure shbg; ... | 1985 | 4068705 |
| [histochemical and ultrastructural research of the epithelium of the head of the epididymis of equus asinus]. | | 1985 | 4071022 |
| neonatal type of argininosuccinate synthetase deficiency. report of two cases with autopsy findings. | two autopsy cases of neonatal argininosuccinate synthetase (ass) deficiency demonstrating the particular histological changes of the liver are presented. case 1 was a female infant with elevated blood ammonia and citrulline. the patient died of sepsis at nineteen days after birth. autopsy revealed hematomas in bilateral cerebral hemispheres and a yellow liver parenchyma. histologically, the cerebrum showed diffuse astrogliosis with alzheimer type ii cell and swollen cytoplasm. status spongiosus ... | 1985 | 4072682 |
| influence of airway and airspace sizes on particle deposition in excised donkey lungs. | tests of aerosol deposition with breath holding and of lung function were performed on the excised lungs of three donkeys following regional in vivo radioaerosol deposition tests. corrosion casts were made of the lungs to determine the dimensions of the tracheobronchial (tb) tree, and histological sections were taken to determine average alveolar airspace size. static lung function tests, i.e., static compliance and specific compliance (cstat and cspec), agreed well with the predicted and report ... | 1985 | 4076059 |
| the relationship between antigenic structure and the requirement for thymus-derived cells in the immune response. | certain antigens such as polymerized flagellin are capable of producing relatively normal antibody levels in thymectomized mice, whereas others, including heterologous erythrocytes require the presence of t cells in a helper capacity. the mechanism of thymus-independent antibody production was investigated by comparing the primary igm responses of spleen cells from atxbm, xbm, and normal mice to various physical forms of the flagellar antigens of salmonella adelaide in vitro. no reduction in ant ... | 1971 | 4104294 |
| the "doctoress" on a donkey: women health officers in nineteenth century egypt. | | 1974 | 4138093 |
| temperature regulation in the somali donkey (equus asinus). | | 1971 | 4150223 |
| [study of the phylogeny of related species--horse, donkey and mule--by a labeling technic]. | | 1974 | 4217225 |
| post-vaccination reactions in donkeys vaccinated with african horse-sickness polyvalent vaccines. | | 1967 | 4303690 |
| relationship between phospholipid biosynthesis and the efficiency of the arsenate transport system in yeasts. | in studying the possibility that phosphoinositides which formed complexes with arsenic were involved in the arsenate transport system of yeasts, a comparative study of the phospholipid composition and metabolism was carried out both in saccharomyces carslbergensis and in its arsenate-adapted variant, which showed a deficient inflow of arsenate. it was found that the lipid composition of the two organisms was quite similar, the main classes of phospholipids being phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidyl ... | 1970 | 4314481 |
| effects of cigarette smoke components on bronchial clearance in the donkey. | | 1974 | 4365924 |
| proceedings: metabolism of carbamyl phosphate in donkey liver. | | 1974 | 4374454 |
| temperature regulation in the somali donkey (equus asinus). | | 1971 | 4397892 |
| [the omotransversarius and sternocleidomastoideus muscles in the donkey]. | | 1974 | 4417253 |
| gonadotrophic activity in pregnant donkey serum at various stages of pregnancy. | | 1974 | 4426656 |
| meiosis in interspecific equine hybrids. i. the male mule (equus asinus x e. caballus) and hinny (e. caballus x e. asinus). | | 1974 | 4430187 |
| automated gamma radiation detector for the donkey lung. | | 1974 | 4436047 |
| testicular and epididymal sperm reserves in the ass (equus asinus) and stallion (equus caballus). | | 1974 | 4478855 |
| [kidney and lung transplantation in conditions of immunosuppressive therapy with donkey antilymphocyte immunoglobulin]. | | 1973 | 4585259 |
| [on the 65th birthday of michail jakovlevic ass--with special appreciation of his work on the fuhrmann's rule published 35 years ago]. | | 1973 | 4590653 |
| isolation of immunoglobulin and fragment from donkey anti-russell's viper serum. | | 1972 | 4625720 |
| experimental infection of horses with an attenuated venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis vaccine (strain tc-83). | ten horses (equus caballus) were vaccinated with strain tc-83 venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (vee) virus vaccine. febrile responses and leukopenia due to a reduction of lymphocytes and neutrophils were observed in all animals. viremias were demonstrable in eight horses, with a maximum of 10(3.5) median tissue culture infectious dose units per ml of serum in two horses. clinical illness with depression and anorexia were observed in five horses. neutralizing (n), hemagglutination-inhibiting, ... | 1972 | 4637604 |
| variable starch gel electrophoretic pattern of the enzyme 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in a family of donkeys (equus asinus l.). | | 1972 | 4680625 |
| a radioisotope scanner for rectilinear, arc, transverse section and longitudinal section scanning: (ass--the aberdeen section scanner). | | 1973 | 4720740 |
| equine piroplasmosis (babesia equi): therapeutic trials of imidocarb dihydrochloride in horses and donkeys. | | 1973 | 4748680 |
| [observations on the tractus spinocerebellaris in the donkey (asinus asinus)]. | | 1974 | 4820610 |
| a note on experimental rabies in the donkey. | | 1968 | 4868668 |
| [use of antilymphocytic immunoglobulin from donkeys in kidney allotransplantation to dogs]. | | 1971 | 4946088 |
| [on a persistent left cranial vena cava in a donkey]. | | 1964 | 4953397 |
| immunological similarity of horse, donkey and mule haemoglobins. | | 1967 | 4963570 |
| [first serologic findings of neorickettsial diseases in monkeys (m.rhesus)and in donkeys (e. asinus)]. | | 1967 | 4971555 |
| preliminary observations on serum proteins in the horse and donkey and their interspecific hybrids. | | 1967 | 4972051 |
| pregnant donkey serum gonadotrophin: i--purification and its biological and immunological properties. | | 1968 | 4976298 |
| common and species-specific serum esterases of equidae. i. horse and donkey. | | 1969 | 4983241 |
| the problem of buridan's ass: psychotherapy for choice. | | 1972 | 5032904 |
| energetic cost of grade walking in man and burro, equus asinus: desert and mountain. | | 1972 | 5056207 |
| the use of etorphine-acepromazine in the horse and donkey. | | 1972 | 5072625 |
| induction of ovulation in immature goats with pregnant donkey serum. | | 1971 | 5092742 |
| evidence for selective differences between cells with an active horse x chromosome and cells with an active donkey x chromosome in the female mule. | | 1971 | 5094847 |
| streptothricosis in the domestic donkey (equus asinus asinus). i. clinical observations and clinical pathology. | | 1971 | 5145204 |
| tetanus in the donkey. | | 1968 | 5212506 |
| congress on the socio-economics of health care. a summary report of the first national congress on the socio-economics of health care, sponsored by the american medical ass- ociation, and held in chicago, january 22-23, 1967. | | 1967 | 5232696 |
| cytological and biochemical correlation of late x-chromosome replication and gene inactivation in the mule. | the correlation between late x-chromosome replication and the quantitation of different x-linked glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase electrophoretic forms was studied in a natural hybrid, the female mule. in all four animals examined, a significant deviation from the expected 1: 1 ratio of random x-chromosome inactivation was observed, with the donkey x-chromosome the more frequently late-replicating one. the relative amounts of horse and donkey enzymes activities in lysates of mule skin fibroblas ... | 1971 | 5276759 |
| a case of lymphosarcoma in a donkey. | | 1971 | 5289117 |
| evidence of typhus infection in domestic animals in egypt. | previous work suggested that domestic animals could act as a reservoir of epidemic typhus. to test this hypothesis, sera from buffaloes, camels, donkeys, goats, pigs and sheep in different parts of egypt were submitted to the complement-fixation test, using the common soluble typhus antigen. the highest percentage of positive results was obtained with camel and donkey sera and the positivity rate was higher towards the end of the year than in june and july. animals from the western desert area w ... | 1966 | 5296995 |
| isogeneic versus allogeneic antiserum in the prophylaxis of experimental rabies. | with a view to establishing whether rabies antiserum derived from a species genetically identical to a challenged recipient would increase or decrease its effectiveness compared with that of allogeneic antiserum, rabies immune sera produced in an inbred strain of mice and in donkeys were tested, either alone or with a course of vaccine inoculations, in mice of the same strain a few hours after intramuscular challenge with fixed cvs rabies virus. surviving mice were bled at intervals over a year ... | 1968 | 5302331 |
| sweat gland function of the donkey (equus asinus). | 1. donkeys sweat on exposure to heat and in response to intravenous adrenaline infusion.2. thermal sweating was abolished by the adrenergic-neurone blocking agent bethanidine but not by atropine.3. sympathetic decentralization (by preganglionic sympathectomy) abolished thermal sweating but adreno-medullary denervation had no effect.4. exercise resulted in sweating from both sympathetically innervated and decentralized skin and from the innervated skin of animals which had previously undergone ad ... | 1969 | 5347721 |
| energy expenditure in desert walks: man and burro equus asinus. | | 1969 | 5360443 |
| the transport of oxidized glutathione from the erythrocytes of various species in the presence of chromate. | 1. erythrocytes from normal and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient humans were subjected to hydrogen peroxide diffusion to oxidize the gsh. studies were carried out in the presence and absence of chromate to inhibit glutathione reductase and with or without the addition of glucose. 2. the gsh content of erythrocytes from other species was oxidized by subjecting them to hydrogen peroxide diffusion in the presence of chromate and glucose. 3. chromate (1.3mm) inhibited glutathione reductas ... | 1969 | 5387975 |
| therapeutic effect of samorin r in donkeys and dogs experimentally infected with trypanosoma evansi. | | 1970 | 5430386 |
| gene expression in an interspecific hybrid: analysis of hemoglobins in donkey, horse, and mule by peptide mapping. | | 1970 | 5444105 |
| the conflict of buridan's ass or some dilemmas of affluence: the theory of attractive stimulus overload. | | 1970 | 5458590 |
| spectrophotometric ass for d-ribose-5-phosphateketol-isomerase and for d-ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase. | | 1970 | 5462169 |
| a case of uterine prolapse in a donkey. | | 1970 | 5463259 |
| shifts in body fluids during dehydration in the burro, equus asinus. | | 1970 | 5465483 |
| uterine prolapse in a donkey. | | 1970 | 5465754 |
| water economy of the somali donkey. | | 1970 | 5473140 |
| influenza in horses and donkeys in britain, 1969. | | 1970 | 5531098 |
| [positive serological findings for brucellosis in donkeys (equinus asinus) of the mexican republic]. | | 1970 | 5534583 |
| [helminths and helminthiasis of domestic equines (donkeys and horses) of chad republic]. | | 1970 | 5535129 |
| long-term smoking in th donkey. effect on tracheobronchial particle clearance. | | 1971 | 5538573 |
| response of the somali donkey to dehydration: hematological changes. | | 1971 | 5555812 |
| red blood cell and plasma volumes in the burro, equus asinus: desert and mountain. | | 1971 | 5558249 |
| the characteristics of bronchial clearance in the miniature donkey. | | 1968 | 5671090 |
| effect of acute sulfur dioxide exposure on bronchial clearance in the donkey. | | 1968 | 5673903 |
| the control of sweating in the donkey. | | 1968 | 5675097 |
| tetanus in the donkey. | | 1968 | 5748647 |
| [mediastinal emphysema in the donkey]. | | 1968 | 5753819 |
| the effect of acute exposure to cigarette smoke on bronchial clearance in the miniature donkey. | | 1969 | 5782495 |
| resting energy metabolism and cardiorespiratory activity in the burro equus asinus. | | 1969 | 5796312 |
| effects of neutron irradiation on blood and cerebrospinal fluid pressures in the burro (equus asinus). | | 1969 | 5812438 |
| [eimeria leuckarti: a rare parasite of horses and donkeys]. | | 1969 | 5815382 |
| [a tiger under the hood and a donkey at the wheel]. | | 1965 | 5851720 |
| the taxonomy of echinococcus granulosus in the donkey and dromedary in lebanon and syria. | | 1965 | 5893289 |
| [deep-freezing of ass and stallion semen in concentrated pellet form]. | | 1966 | 5975242 |
| [first demonstration of the natural existence of salmonella in donkeys]. | | 1966 | 6011549 |
| oedipus rex, cu chulain, khepri and the ass. | | 1967 | 6048596 |
| [preliminary observations on the serum proteins in the horse, ass and their interspecific hybrids]. | | 1967 | 6050492 |
| [preliminary observations on the serum proteins of the horse, donkey and their interspecific hybrids. i. preliminary investigations]. | | 1967 | 6063900 |
| isolation of pasteurella multocida from a fatal disease of horses and donkeys in india. | | 1967 | 6068112 |