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Maria Rosaria Bruno; Annapaola Cannizzaro; Angelo Olori; Francesca Tombolini; Federica Angelosanto; Francesco Sinopoli; Biagio Maria Bruni; Francesco Casalinuovo; Antonella Campopiano
animalage, etc ; asbestos; carcinogenicity; durability; environment; humans; lungs; macrophages; phagocytosis; principal component analysis; sheep; Italy; Show all 12 Subjects
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... In Calabria (Southern Italy) naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) mainly occurs in the ophiolitic sequences cropping in the Mount Reventino area. The most common type of asbestos detected was the amphibole tremolite; fibrous antigorite and minor chrysotile were also found. The development of asbestos-related diseases depends on, among other things, the morphological characteristics of fibers, length ...
... In this study 34 heads of Karacabey Merino sheep wools raised in various farms located around Tekirdağ province, Turkey were investigated. Physical wool properties such as fiber fineness, length, strength, elongation, and greasy fleece weight were examined. Samples were collected during the shearing of the animals. Samples from three different regions such as head-neck, middle, and back from each ...
animalage, etc ; food chain; food safety; liver; necropsy; pastures; summer; Italy; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The study evaluated the outcomes of cattle liver postmortem examination (64,766 animals) obtained from three slaughterhouses (two located in Lombardy, Northern Italy, and one in Puglia, Southern Italy) through the period 2016-2020. The frequency of specific lesions determining liver condemnation was calculated and the influence of several factors (animal age/category, geographical area, season, pl ...
... The domestic ruminants such as buffaloes, cattle, goats, sheep, and camels all around the globe represent a significant part of the global economy. Although domestic ruminant group infestations by hard ticks are commonly reported worldwide. Because these localized reports have shown variable and unprocessed results. A comprehensive global meta-analysis of tick infestations that dealt with the glob ...
animalage, etc ; Hereford; agriculture; body weight; cattle; decision support systems; electronics; females; growth curves; heteroskedasticity; plant growth; regression analysis; Show all 12 Subjects
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... In this paper we provide an alternative to create reference growth curves for female Hereford cattle breed based on the generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) framework. The proposed methodology avoids some known problems present in the quantile regression, such as crossing quantiles and unsuitability in extreme centiles. Since GAMLSS are semi-parametric regression-type ...
Iara Del Pilar Solar Diaz; Luis Antonio Framartino Bezerra; Raysildo Barbosa Lôbo; Francisco Ribeiro de Araújo Neto; Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo; Valdecy Aparecida Rocha da Cruz; Raphael Bermal Costa; Henrique Nunes de Oliveira
animalage, etc ; Nellore; Urochloa decumbens; animal health; beef; beef production; body weight; energy; pastures; regression analysis; slaughter; weight gain; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Growth data of 77,372 Nelore steers were used to estimate the selection effect on energy requirements considering two beef production systems: cow-calf and slaughter cycles. All the animals had measures from 120 days to 7 years old. The parameters necessary to evaluate the selection effect on energy requirements were obtained by random regression analysis using Legendre polynomials. The models inc ...
animalage, etc ; Clostridium perfringens C; Elephantid betaherpesvirus 1; Elephas maximus; adults; captive animals; case studies; enterotoxemia; females; hemorrhage; mixed infection; mortality; necrosis; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus hemorrhagic disease (EEHV-HD) is an acute, often fatal, multisystemic hemorrhagic disease and one of the most significant causes of mortality of Asian elephants in captivity. Most fatal cases of EEHV-HD are associated with EEHV1A and EEHV1B in juveniles. This case report describes the clinical and pathological features of a fatal co-infection of Clostridium pe ...
animalage, etc ; blood serum; depuration; fire fighting; foams; half life; health effects assessments; human health; kidneys; liver; muscles; perfluorohexane sulfonic acid; perfluorononanoic acid; perfluorooctane sulfonic acid; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Cattle that were at steady-state serum polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) concentrations due to several years of exposure to water contaminated by residues of Aqueous Film-Forming (AFFF) firefighting foam had perfluorooctane sulphonate (PFOS) isomers, perfluoroheptane sulphonate (PFHpS), perfluorohexane sulphonate (PFHxS), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) and perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) in serum. El ...
... This study aimed to contribute to the knowledge about the reproductive physiology of wild lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) by describing the serum testosterone concentrations, testicular biometry, and testicular tone of individuals living in the Pantanal and Cerrado biomes of Brazil, and to check for reproductive seasonality for the species, and to investigate correlations among these reproduct ...
animalage, etc ; body weight; growth curves; growth models; lambing; lambs; India; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Body weights (BW) of 2,611 Muzaffarnagari lambs at birth and 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of age were used to compare five alternative growth curves. Four three-parameter functions (Brody, von Bertalanffy, Gompertz, and logistic) and the four-parameter Richards function were fit for each lamb. Estimates of the asymptotic final BW (A), a maturing-rate parameter (k), and the degree of maturity at birth (u ...
animalage, etc ; aerosols; bacteriophages; meta-analysis; phage therapy; standard deviation; systematic review; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria has sparked a renewed interest in alternative bacterial control methods, including bacteriophage administration. In order to determine the overall efficacy of bacteriophage administration for the reduction of bacterial concentrations in poultry, a systematic literature review and a meta-analysis were conducted. The systematic review inc ...
animalage, etc ; Bovine coronavirus; Cryptosporidium; Rotavirus; calves; diarrhea; enteropathogens; meta-analysis; odds ratio; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Multiple enteropathogens such as bovine rotavirus (BRV), bovine coronavirus (BCoV), Escherichia coli K99 (ETEC) and Cryptosporidium spp. (Crypto) are the most common causes of calf diarrhoea during the first 30 days of animal age. Three weighted-stratified random-effects meta-analyses were performed to calculate the worldwide prevalence of mixed infections of the causative agents (i.e., BRV-BCoV, ...
animalage, etc ; behavior problems; cats; factor analysis; pet ownership; pets; predation; questionnaires; Spain; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The Fe-BARQ is a survey instrument designed to improve understanding of feline behavior that has been validated within a US population but not within a Spanish one. The Spanish version was translated and subjected to the same validation process, replicating the procedure described in the original research. Exploratory Factor Analysis of 816 questionnaire responses to 100 behavioral questions/items ...
animalage, etc ; disease control; herds; infectious diseases; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; observational studies; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Infectious disease models are a useful tool to support within-herd disease control strategies. This study presents a stochastic compartment model with environmentally mediated transmission to represent the spread of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in a farrow-to-finish pig herd. The aims of the study were to (1) construct a model of the spread of LA-MRSA ...
animalage, etc ; Leptospira; Mycobacterium avium; cattle; goats; hybrids; interleukin-17; monoclonal antibodies; paratuberculosis; sheep; Show all 10 Subjects
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... The major functions of γδ T cells in mammals overlap with those of αβ T cells but differ in that γδ T cells are rapid responders and see different types of antigens. While γδ T cells have been shown to be a major population of circulating lymphocytes in artiodactyl species such as cattle, sheep, and pigs, less is known about these cells in goats, an important agricultural species. We have recently ...
animalage, etc ; adults; age at slaughter; agroecology; antioxidants; color; conception; consumer information; diet; ethics; fatty acid composition; genetic selection; grasses; intramuscular fat; lean meat; meat production; meat quality; off flavors; off odors; ovine carcasses; pregnancy; risk; sheep meat; Europe; Show all 24 Subjects
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... Sheep meat comes from a wide variety of farming systems utilising outdoor extensive to indoor intensive with animals of various ages at slaughter. In Europe, slaughter may occur from 4 weeks of age in suckling light lambs to adult ages. More than any other animal species used for meat production, there are strong country-specific preferences for sheep meat quality linked to production system chara ...
animalage, etc ; cross-sectional studies; herds; lysine; methionine; particle size distribution; plumage; regression analysis; sodium; Show all 9 Subjects
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... In this cross-sectional study, 103 complete feed samples from laying hen herds affected by plumage damage as an indirect measure for severe feather pecking (affected herds; AH, n = 37) and control herds without plumage damage (control herd; CH, n = 66) of commercial German farms were examined by dry sieve and nutrient analysis. AH showed higher percentages of particles >2.50 mm (mean ± SD, CH: 11. ...
animalage, etc ; Sus scrofa; adults; carcass quality; collagen; lean meat; lipid content; longissimus muscle; protein content; Show all 9 Subjects
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The aim of this study was to determine the influence of age and sex on carcass characteristics and the chemical composition of the longissimus thoracis et lumborum (LTL) muscle in wild boars (Sus scrofa). Carcass quality parameters varied significantly depending on age and sex, whereas the protein and collagen contents in the muscle were affected by animal age. The carcasses of male year ...
animalage, etc ; air; ceramics; habitats; littoral zone; osmoregulation; population dynamics; research; salinity; seawater; water uptake; weather; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Population dynamics and their response to environmental stressors have been widely studied in intertidal organisms. However, how these dynamics and responses change with animal age have been largely ignored to date. Traditionally, it is assumed that younger organisms are more sensitive than adults to environmental stressors; under this perspective it could be predicted that fully grown organisms s ...
animalage, etc ; Duroc; average daily gain; carcass quality; carcass yield; castration; females; markets; meat cuts; rump; swine; Show all 11 Subjects
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... The traditional production of the Iberian breed pig involves a long production cycle. It might be shortened by using Iberian pigs crossed with Duroc and by reducing the growing phase, but the age-related changes on productive performance and carcass quality should be addressed. Thus, productive performance, live measurements and carcass and primal cut traits were evaluated on Iberian × Duroc 50:50 ...