| highlights of physiological research at the university of cape town, 1912-1978. | during the 68 years since it was founded, 548 publications have appeared from the department of physiology of the university of cape town, which has at different times included subdepartments of pharmacology and of medical biochemistry. the main fields of physiological research have been electrophysiology of the heart and of nerves, calcium metabolism (especially of teeth), endocrinology (especially of sex hormones), phonocardiography, bile secretion, exercise physiology (especially tests of phy ... | 1979 | 117559 |
| some diseases of domestic rabbits encountered in the western cape. | the most common disease conditions encountered in domestic rabbits under intensive conditions in the western cape are discussed. chlamydiosis is of paramount importance; it might be the limiting factor in the developing rabbit industry. | 1976 | 781238 |
| the effects of sex and age on serum ige concentrations in three ethnic groups. | serum ige concentrations were measured using a radio-radial immunodiffusion method in 4,440 blood donors resident in the western cape province, south africa, and the following differences were observed. firstly, in all three ethnic groups studied, that is the whites, the cape coloureds and the africans, there was a tendency for males to have higher serum ige concentrations than females. this differences was highly significantly in whites. secondly, in the whites, serum ige concentrations tended ... | 1975 | 806538 |
| phage types of salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis isolated in south africa from 1991-1995. | a total of 615 strains of salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis (se), received from 1991-1995 at the onderstepoort veterinary institute (ovi), were phage typed. most se isolates (54,7%) originated from poultry followed by humans (28,5 %) and poultry eggs (9,6 %). phage type 34 was the most prevalent (40,5 %) of all isolates, followed by phage type 4 (33,8 %). other phage types identified were 1, lb, 4a, 7, 7a, 9a, 14, 24, 24var and 35 (in total 2,4% of isolates). most isolates of se were recei ... | 2000 | 11028749 |
| immunohematopoietic stem cell transplantation: introduction and 35 years of development in south africa--the historical and scientific perspective. | bone marrow was the traditional graft source when we introduced these procedures to south africa. technical details were established using rabbits as the experimental model with translation into a formally structured clinical programme at the university of cape town, based in the groote schuur hospital, in 1972. lack of any infrastructure was overcome by the acquisition of the first continuous-flow cell separator in sub-sahara to provide for granulocyte transfusions. this was shortly followed by ... | 2008 | 18724285 |
| vaccine farming in cape town. | the review details the development of the subunit vaccine group at the university of cape town, from its beginnings as a plant virology laboratory in the 1980s. the investigation and development of human papillomavirus (hpv) and human immunodeficiency vaccine candidates are covered in detail, with an emphasis on how this work allowed the evolution of a systematic approach to the optimisation of expression of these and other proteins especially in plants, but also in insect cell culture. we discu ... | 2011 | 21358269 |