Experiments involving poults were conducted with the primary objective of studying the effects of sodium chloride on field rickets. A
second objective was to study the effects of mineral elements on reproduction of turkey breeder males and females. Three experiments were
conducted with poults. A comparison of added dietary sodium...
Great importance has been attributed to the visual aspects of
sexual communication in semi-terrestrial crabs and although P.
crassipes may utilize visual signals, pheromones and chemotactile
signals are important in the release of mating behavior. In the subtidal
C. magister pheromones seem to mediate both courtship and
mating behavior. Visual...
A two-part study was conducted to investigate some of the nutritional
relationships between dietary tri-o-cresylphosphate (TOCP), a
toxic stress material, and dietary vitamin E and selenium. In part
one, growth rate of male weanling Long-Evans rats and day-old
Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) was used to determine the
protective action...
An experiment was designed to simulate field conditions of tansy
ragwort poisoning in cattle and horses.
Four calves and four ponies were fed pelleted feed containing 5%
Senecio jacobaea and two ponies and two calves were used as controls.
The feeding continued for two months. Following this, the chronic
delayed...
An F₁ population resulting from mating pygmy and normal goats (local commercial breeds) was crossed to give an F₂ population. Analysis of wither height and body weight indicated that the F₂ population was intermediate between the parental types (pygmy and normal) with little overlap of phenotypic values for body size...
Six groups of goats were used in the study. These were the normal group (Saanen, French Alpine, and Nubian breeds), 1/4 pygmy group (first backcross to normal), 1/2 pygmy group (F1) 3/4 pygmy group (first backcross to pygmy), 7/8 pygmy group (second backcross to pygmy), and pygmy group0 The mean...
There has been no toxicologic proof that the long-term, low-level
exposure of man to chlorophenothane (DDT) is linked with an
increased susceptibility to toxicity or disease. Acute pretreatment
of rats with 75-100 mg/kg DDT has been demonstrated to potentiate
CCI₄-induced hepatotoxicity in that species (McLean and McLean,
1966). Since the...
The relationship of intracellular drug levels and resultant drug activity to intracellular pH (pHi) was studied in the experimental tumors. Glucose (5 g/kg) and/or sodium oxamate (0.1 mmol) were administered to Walker 256 ascites cells and Ehrlich ascites cells, in an attempt to alter pHi as measured by the distribution...
Sperm mobility is defined as the net movement of a sperm population against resistance. Previous research demonstrated that the cell-permeant Ca2+ indicator rhod-2 AM gave a fluorescent signal predominantly in the head region of fowl sperm that differed between sperm mobility phenotypes. This thesis served to explore the role of...