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Corticosterone (CORT) can stimulate growth hormone (GH) cell (somatotroph) differentiation and GH secretion on embryonic day (e) 12 but not e20 in the chicken. GH induction involves both glucocorticoid receptors (GR) and ...

ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation / Thesis: EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF BarA-UvrY TWO-COMPONENT SYSTEM IN ESCHERICHIA COLI. Isha Patel, Masters, 2004 Dissertation / Thesis Directed By: Assistant Professor, Dr. Suman ...

Animals are marked for identification in a range of experiments from behavior and wildlife management, to reproduction and pharmacological studies. However, little is known of the impact marks have on animals. The ...

The primary objective of this research project was to determine if dual energy x-ray absorptiometry was a valid method for non-invasively determining body composition of hybrid striped bass (Morone chrysops ♀ x. ...

The butyrophilin gene (BTN1A1) has been described in all mammalian species so far investigated. BTN1A1 is a likely QTL candidate that affects an economically important trait in dairy animals because it is specifically ...

The primary objective of this study was to determine the extent ruminants control urea recycling to the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), independent of rumen microbial metabolism. Urea kinetics were determined by continuous ...

Sexually naïve female prairie voles require exposure to a novel male to activate the neural circuits involved in the formation of stable pair bonds and to stimulate sexual receptivity. The objective of our study was to ...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the relationships among milk urea nitrogen (MUN) and other factors with the probability of conception in dairy cows. A total of 713 dairy herds and 10,271 dairy cows were ...

Domestic fowl were tested in three experiments, all investigating the mediating effects of three group sizes of 5, 10, and 20 individuals, on behavioral responses under varying environmental conditions. The first experiment ...