Gynaecomastia is a glandular tissue proliferation leading to unilateral or bilateral enlargement of male mammary glands of man and animals. The present work describes a rare case of gynecomastia in a four-year-old Nubian buck. Place of Study: Departments of Microbiology, Patholog...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/22309
Nephrogenic Diabetes insipidus (NDI) is an issue coming about because of lacking against diuretic hormone (ADH) activity and is described by the entry of extensive measures of exceptionally dilute urine. This problem must be separated from other polyuric states, for example, esse...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/22224
Aims: To study development of placenta in wild type and domesticated silver fox with special reference to cell cycle progression of the invasive trophoblast cells. Study Design: Immunohistochemistry with cytokeratin and CD34 primary antibodies to evaluate trophoblast, epithelium...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/20235
Aims: The aim of this study is to analyze the framework of dialogue and management of fires for a better involvement and sense of ownership of the actors in general and the local communities in particular. Specifically, this study seeks to (i) analyze the efficiency of the nation...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/20724
Incomplete species samplings are deemed to remain the common practice in those groups of animals, such as small or micro- invertebrates, with numerous species that often are more or less difficult to detect in the field. Thus, extrapolating the Species Accumulation Curve as far a...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/22351
To start an accurate wheat breeding program for improving low-N tolerance, information on the type of gene action controlling the inheritance of grain yield and quality traits under contrasting N environments should be available, which is the objective of the present investigatio...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/21939
Aim: The aim of the study was to determine trypanosome infection rates in cattle brought to Makurdi central abattoir during a devastating flooding of 2012. Study Design: Cattle of mixed sexes and breeds were randomly sampled three times a week. Place and Duration of Study: The in...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/15757
Aim: The present study was designed to evaluate the protective effects of ethanolic extract of whole plant of Scleria lithosperma (EEWSL) against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats. Methodology: EEWSL was orally administrated in two different doses (250 mg/kg/day and 500...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11369
There is an increased interest worldwide in developing wheat cultivars that are more efficient in utilizing nitrogen (N) and better fitted to N limitations. The objective of this investigation was to study the effects of contrasting soil N levels on the genetic parameters control...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/21938
Male factor abnormalities account for 30 to 50% of all infertility cases [1]. Nowadays it is clear that genetic abnormalities are a significant cause of male infertility, with about 20% of patients with sperm defects presenting gene mutations [2]. Next-generation sequencing (NGS)...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/20263
Aims: The present study aimed to describe the histological alterations observed in gills of Rhamdia quelen and Metynnis maculatus during treatment of white spot disease and to compare three quantitative indices of gill alterations originally developed by other authors for this ty...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/21944
Daniela Conti, Stefania Balzamo, Andrea Paina, Cristina Martone, Elisa Raso, Fabio Cadoni, Federica Savorelli, Manorama Croppo, Vanessa Bellaria & Alessandra Pati·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Aim: The current study was designed to evaluate whether European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L. 1758) can be used as a sentinel species to test contaminants. For this aim the acute lethality (96 h) of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) on sea bass juveniles at two...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/20527
The aim of the study is to document the morphological details of the forelimb bones of the orange rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina). The bones were collected from 12 adult animals of both sexes. Each limb comprised of 47 bones (30 bones, 17 sesamoid bones). The clavicle was poo...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/21814
Aim: The present study evaluates the toxic effects of Croton tiglium seeds mixed with animal diet on plasma and blood parameters in male albino rats. Methodology: Eighteen adult albino male rats, of age 6-8 weeks with an average body weight 120-160 grams, were used in this study....
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/19801
This study investigated the effects of short-term repeated oral administration of sub-toxic dose of potassium cyanide on the haematological indices and the structure of the thyroid, liver, adrenal, and spleen of rabbits. A total of 16 rabbits, weighing 1.2±0.2 kg were randomly di...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/21828