Syrian hamsters
Endotoxin and cytokines increase hepatic messenger RNA levels and serum concentrations of apolipoprotein J (clusterin) in Syrian hamsters
... concentrations of the acute phase proteins. Our results show that apolipoprotein (apo) J is a positive acute phase protein. Endotoxin (LPS), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and interleukin (IL)-1 increased hepatic mRNA and ...
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Helicobacter mesocricetorum sp nov , a Novel Helicobacter Isolated from the Feces of Syrian Hamsters
... asymptomatic Syrian hamsters, from two different genetic stocks, were obtained from two geographically separate sources: one in Europe (four hamsters) and the other in the United States (four ...all ...
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Endotoxin and cytokines decrease serum levels and extra hepatic protein and mRNA levels of cholesteryl ester transfer protein in syrian hamsters
... clearance of HDL. Preserving HDL cholesterol levels during in- fection and inflammation may be important because of the ability of HDL to prevent the toxic effects of endotoxin (41–43) and reduce oxidative stress (44, ...
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Helicobacter aurati sp nov , a Urease Positive Helicobacter Species Cultured from Gastrointestinal Tissues of Syrian Hamsters
... Adult Syrian hamsters were submitted to our laboratory for diagnostic evaluation following a number of acute and sub- acute deaths in a research ...in Syrian ham- sters from several other facilities ...
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Modeling Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection in Golden Syrian Hamsters: Importance of STAT2 in Preventing Disease and Effective Treatment with Favipiravir
... KO hamsters to SFTSV. Wild-type Syrian hamsters are refractory to disease following SFTSV challenge ...render hamsters susceptible to SFTSV, STAT2 KO hamsters were inoculated ...
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Possible ameliorative effects of antioxidants on propionic acid / clindamycin - induced neurotoxicity in Syrian hamsters
... A total of 54 young male golden Syrian hamsters weigh- ing about 80–100 grams were used in the present study. Animals were randomly into seven groups, each consist- ing of 6 animals. The groups studied ...
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Depletion of Alveolar Macrophages Does Not Prevent Hantavirus Disease Pathogenesis in Golden Syrian Hamsters
... Similarly, Syrian hamsters experimen- tally infected with ANDV by intramuscular challenge develop a disease that is indistinguishable from the disease exhibited follow- ing intranasal exposure, the only ...
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PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF APIGENIN ON 7, 12 DIMETHYLBENZ (A) ANTHRACENE INDUCED GLYCOCONJUGATES IN THE PLASMA AND BUCCAL MUCOSA OF GOLDEN SYRIAN HAMSTERS
... golden Syrian hamsters, 8 weeks old, weighing 80-120 g, were obtained from National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India and maintained in Central Animal House, Rajah Muthiah Medical College and ...
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Effects of prepubertal manipulation with androgens on the development of sexual differences in the harderian glands of Syrian hamsters
... [nt I Ue\' BinI 35 133 138 (1991) 133 Shari ConlrilJl/liol1 Effects of prepubertal manipulation with androgens on the development of sexual differences in the Harderian glands of Syrian hamsters ARMAN[.] ...
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Isolation of a novel Helicobacter species, Helicobacter cholecystus sp nov , from the gallbladders of Syrian hamsters with cholangiofibrosis and centrilobular pancreatitis
... The role of H. cholecystus in cholangiofibrosis and centri- lobular pancreatitis remains uncertain; however, three pieces of evidence suggest that this bacterium may play a role in the disease progression. First, ...
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Temporal Analysis of Andes Virus and Sin Nombre Virus Infections of Syrian Hamsters
... Andes virus (ANDV) and Sin Nombre virus (SNV) are rodent-borne hantaviruses that cause a highly lethal hemorrhagic fever in humans known as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). There are no vaccines or specific drugs to ...
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A Lethal Disease Model for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Immunosuppressed Syrian Hamsters Infected with Sin Nombre Virus
... immunosuppressed hamsters exhibited clini- cal signs and mortality similar to what is exhibited by ANDV- infected ...hamsters. Hamsters in all groups were challenged with 2,000 PFU of SNV ...
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Decreased bioactivity of the guanine nucleotide binding protein that stimulates adenylate cyclase in hearts from cardiomyopathic Syrian hamsters
... We investigated regulation of cardiac adenylate cyclase in 29-d-old BIO 14.6 Syrian hamsters, which inherit cardiomyopathy as an autosomal recessive trait. Pharmacologic stimulation of adenylate cyclase in ...
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection of Golden Syrian Hamsters
... Golden Syrian hamsters provide an ex- cellent small animal model for acute SARS CoV replication and associated pathology and provide insights into the early events in SARS CoV ...in hamsters (1:436) ...
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Effect of Preexisting Immunity on Oncolytic Adenovirus Vector INGN 007 Antitumor Efficacy in Immunocompetent and Immunosuppressed Syrian Hamsters
... Role of preexisting immunity in vector spread to other or- gans. We showed previously that when INGN 007 is injected into tumors, it replicates inside the tumors and spreads to other organs, such as the liver and lungs, ...
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Identification of urinary isoflavone excretion phenotypes related to the cholesterol lowering ability of soy protein in Golden Syrian hamsters
... In the current study, either glycitein or total isoflavone bioavailability as reflected in urinary excretion clusters determined at wk 1 or 4 predicted cholesterol-lowering efficacy of soy protein (Table 3). ...
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The impact of hydroxycitric acid on the lipid metabolism profile under experimental insulin resistance syndrome of Syrian hamsters
... The syndrome of insulin resistance (Ir) is one of the leading reasons for the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and their complications. Among the key components of Ir are obesity and dyslipidemia. hydroxycitric ...
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Isolation of a Campylobacter like organism from healthy Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus)
... Immunofluorescence studies with a Campylobacter species-specific monoclonal antibody 8322-2E6 revealed the presence of numerous positively stained organisms within the crypt epithelial c[r] ...
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Protective role of [6] paradol on dmba induced genotoxicity in male golden syrian hamsters
... treated hamsters significantly reduced the comet ...in hamsters treated with DMBA alone, which indicates that liver detoxification cascade was stimulated to detoxify the carcinogenic metabolite of ...
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Overcoming Diminished Motivation
... male Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) using odors obtained from flank glands as the social ...in hamsters including dominance status (Johnston & Lee, 1976; Ferris et ...
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