Guinea Pigs
Effects of Cyclopentolate on Form Deprivation Myopia in Guinea Pigs
... Muscarinic receptors are one of the important facts during the development of myopia. Although the ocular tissues of guinea pigs express muscarinic subtypes M1 to M5 [28], it remains unknown how the ...
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The Effects of Prucalopride on Postoperative Ileus in Guinea Pigs
... Materials and Methods: The experimental model of POI in guinea pigs was creat- ed by laparotomy, gentle manipulation of the cecum for 60 seconds, and closure by suture, all under anesthesia. Different ...
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Veterinarian nominated common conditions of rabbits and guinea pigs compared with published literature
... in guinea pigs, but results of the literature review suggest that for skin and dental conditions, the amount of literature available does not reflect how common veterinary surgeons perceive these conditions ...
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Optimizing information in the herd : guinea pigs, profits, and welfare
... or profitability (in the case of firms). In both cases the approach taken in this paper is to model the learning process as a potential herding phenomenon. This allows a quick identification of the crucial trade-off ...
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Maternal Nutrient Restriction in Pregnant Guinea Pigs and the Impact on Fetal Growth and Brain Development
... and guinea pigs as prenatal brain developers, as the most rapid phases of brain growth and development occur in the latter half of pregnancy (McIntosh et ...
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The effect of oxytocin receptor blockade on parturition in guinea pigs
... The mechanism of the onset of labor is unknown in humans and guinea pigs. Contrary to most other species, progesterone withdrawal appears not to precede the onset of labor. To elucidate the role of oxytocin ...
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Bronchodilator action of inhaled nitric oxide in guinea pigs
... The effects of inhaling nitric oxide (NO) on airway mechanics were studied in anesthetized and mechanically ventilated guinea pigs. In animals without induced bronchoconstriction, breathing 300 ppm NO ...
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Molecular basis of complement C3 deficiency in guinea pigs
... in guinea pigs, we found that C3-deficient liver and peritoneal macrophages contain C3 messenger RNA of normal size (approximately 5 kb) and amounts, that this mRNA programs synthesis of pro-C3 in oocytes ...
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The neuronal structure of the red nucleus in newborn guinea pigs
... twenty-day-old guinea pigs (unpublished ...newborn guinea pigs the length of RN varies from 740 to 860 µm and reaches about 950 µm by P20 (unpub- lished ...adult guinea pigs ...
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Imatinib relaxes the pulmonary venous bed of guinea pigs
... GPs: Guinea pigs; IPL: Isolated perfused lungs; LHD: Left heart disease; LMM: Linear mixed model analysis; MLCK: Myosin light chain kinase; MLCP: Myosin light chain phosphatase; PAH: Pul[r] ...
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Evaluation of Recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens MPT64, CFP10, and ESAT6 for Delayed Type Hypersensitivity Responses in Guinea Pigs
... The tuberculin Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) skin test is widely used; however, the results are often inaccurate. Positive results can be observed in patients with active tuberculosis (TB) as well as in ...
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Effects of cytotoxic immunosuppressants on tuberculin sensitive lymphocytes in guinea pigs
... The immunosuppressive activities of two phase-specific drugs, 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) and methotrexate, and a cycle-specific agent, cyclophosphamide, were evaluated on the lymphocytic component of established tuberculin ...
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Guinea pigs with inherited deficiencies of complement components C2 or C4 have characteristics of immune complex disease
... Guinea pigs genetically deficient in the second (C2) or fourth component of complement (C4) generally appear healthy in contrast to humans with a C2 or C4 ...in guinea pigs for signs of ...
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Comparative Efficacy and Immunogenicity of Replication-Defective, Recombinant Glycoprotein, and DNA Vaccines for Herpes Simplex Virus 2 Infections in Mice and Guinea Pigs
... Thus, although gD2 elicited higher antigen-specific antibody responses, dl5–29 induced significantly higher neutralizing an- tibodies, indicating perhaps that it presented a far broader palette of neutralizing epitopes ...
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Ebola Virus Transmission in Guinea Pigs
... Transmission studies in swine and NHPs require the use of precious animal species and necessitate extensive coordination and resources, making them impractical and possibly unsuitable to support scientific progress, such ...
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Characterization of the oncornavirus particles in the plasma of guinea pigs with L2C leukemia.
... DISCUSSION Subcutaneous inoculation of L2C guinea pig leukemia cells into strain 2 guinea pigs results, at approximately day 12, in a rapid increase in the leukocyte count, the appearanc[r] ...
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Further Correlations of Cell Metabolism and Resistance to Tuberculosis: Studies on Mononuclear Peritoneal Exudate Cells from Mice and Guinea Pigs
... and Resistance to Tuberculosis: Studies on Mononuclear Peritoneal Exudate Cells from Mice and Guinea Pigs*.. JOHN M.[r] ...
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The placenta as a site of cytomegalovirus infection in guinea pigs.
... The findings that highest placental virus infectivity titers and typical intranuclear inclusions containing viral nucleocapsids were observed only at 3 to 4 weeks post-maternal inoculati[r] ...
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Cholesterol metabolism in guinea pigs
... viii Table 26 Page Effect of prolonged high intake of ascorbic 182 acid on cholesterol and ascorbic acid concentrations in the plasma and tissues and on triglyceride concentration in the[r] ...
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Isolation and Characterization of a Herpesvirus from Leukemic Guinea Pigs
... Studies on the morphogenesis of GPHV revealed that, as in other herpesvirus infections, only the nakedcapsids with or without the nucleoprotein core were found in the infected cell nucle[r] ...
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