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Hypotheses from biology propose that females that are in better condition are better able to provide resources to their offspring through maternal investment. The investment can be either direct nutritional or greater ...

Understanding the immune defense of the mammary gland is important in devising and developing measures to control mastitis. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the predominant factor causing pathogenesis in Gram-negative bacterial ...

The intent of this project was to investigate options for improvement of a commercially manufactured prescription diet designed to reduce manifestation of clinical disease secondary to cystinuria in captive maned wolves ...

Factors affecting pH and the mechanism of rumen pH control are poorly understood. Meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the effect of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) on rumen pH. Addition of NaHCO3 increased strong ion ...

This study used epidemiologic case-control methodology to examine habitat and environmental factors contributing to amphibian declines in Arizona. Risk factors were compared between sites where frogs disappeared (cases) ...

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are compounds that alter the production, secretion, action, and elimination of endogenous hormones. EDCs have been shown to be responsible for disrupting development, reproduction, ...

Periparturient cows are susceptible to ketosis. An animal trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of a transition diet on production performance and ketone body (KB) accumulation. The transition diet was fed from 14 ...

Influenza is a single stranded, negative-sense RNA virus with a segmented genome that can infect avian and mammalian species. Influenza viruses from the avian reservoir do not seem to replicate efficiently in humans upon ...