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Animal Facts About Bird Flu Transmission

...S researchers reported the presence of bird flu in pigs from Vietnam in the Journal of Virology, August 2005 issue. Although pigs can acquire the H5N1 virus from birds, the probability of transmitting the same to other pigs and he...

Chancroid Vaccine Holds Promise In Reducing HIV Transmission

...infection. Blood tests showed that the immunized pigs formed antibodies that prevented the chancroid bacteria from binding hemoglobin and, hence, obtaining the heme it needs to survive, the authors said. In skin biopsies of the immunized animals, the researchers found no viable chancroid bacteria. A...

Pollutant TBT Affects Hearing in Marine Mammals

... mammals. The author conducted the study on guinea pigs and tested whether TBT interfered with the guinea pigs' ability to hear. TBT or salicylate is a chemical that occurs naturally in plants and is a component of aspirin. He found that TBT altered the extracellular chloride levels in the cochleas. Th...

Pigs have another utility: production of healthy oils!

...oduce fats. The animals of interest were taken as pigs and they had a key gene inserted in them. // The result was creation of a breed of pigs that had the capability to produce compounds useful for the heart. According to researcher Dr Randy...

New Research Points To Prevention Of Mad Cow Disease

...e disease resistance in other animals such as cow, pigs etc. The researchers further hope that it could eventually pave way for development of novel strategies to prevent Mad Cow Disease. Mad Cow Disease, was first identified in the UK in the year 1986. It is a potentially fatal brain-wasting disease th...

Henda and Nipah viruses should fret: as there is hope for a vaccine.

... Malaysia, Bangladesh and India after jumping from pigs to humans. News to cheer is that scientists from CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory, in partnership with US scientists, had developed a vaccine against the viruses that trials had shown offered complete protection in cats. "There is eviden...

Diabetes cure can be achieved using pig islets

... biosecure barrier facilities to raise high-health pigs for planned pig islet transplant trials in humans. Now the goal is to have suitable donor pigs at the same time possess refined immunosuppressive treatment to a point that makes it safe for clini...

Sci-Fi to come true in OT’s: Patients treated with blood drawn out

...zine the experiment has already been successful in pigs and it is hoped human trials will start soon. The best area where this method could be adopted would be in saving lives of gunshot and car accident victims and patients suffering other life-threatening wounds that have caused severe blood loss. T...

New technique to save more lives

... This experiment was successfully carried out in pigs and is anticipated to work well in case of human trials. The findings were reported in the New Scientist Magazine. It is hope that millions of lives could be saved if this technique works well in the case of humans. Lives of many people with gun...

Foot and Mouth Disease strikes again in China

...FMD is highly infectious disease of cattle, sheep, pigs and goats and is mostly a disease of animals and is highly contagious in early stage of infection when the virus is present in the blood of the animal and causes wounds (vesicles) in the mouth and feet rupture through which lot of virus is excreted a...

Antisense gene specific therapy for Ebola virus

... laboratory mice followed by experiments on guinea pigs and rhesus monkeys and the researchers found that the Antisense PMOs effectively inhibits the growth of the virus and the researchers are planning to further expand their study on antisense PMOs against Ebola virus....

Tobacco plant based Vaccine against Plague

...lant which is found to be effective against guinea pigs which were exposed to pneumonic plague bacterium. ...s of infecting the plant, when injecting on guinea pigs either intramuscular or subcutaneous the guinea pigs produced high levels of stable antigens which i...

US Pigs Could Be Affected In Event Of Bird Flu

... that if the deadly bird flu hits the country then pigs could also be at risk since they are vulnerable /... the most part, go from swine on into humans." But pigs have had nothing to do with the spread of the disease. They serve as a receptor of the virus creatin...

Health Problems Due To Ecosystem's Degradation

...he Nipah virus which infected human beings through pigs in Malaysia is reported to be due to forest clearance activities in Indonesia, driving the carrier bats to the neighbouring country. The SARS disease is also being attributed to the degradation of the ecosystem.Intensive livestock production, in spit...

Now,Swine-Flu!

...essing workers and other people who are exposed to pigs are at heightened risk of contracting swine influe...iseases, describes that the physical makeup of the pigs allows them to contract and spread influenza viruses to and from other species, such as humans and b...

Novel Biological Pacemaker Under Construction for Weak Hearts

...emaker by fusing connective tissue cells of guinea pigs with heart muscle cells. The newly developed pacemaker can fire on it’s own and regulate the rhythm // of the heart in a more physiological way. Two sets of tiny electroactive 'pacing cells' (SA node) give rise to the heart’s normal rhythm by stimul...

Influence Of Heart Rate On Myocardial Oxygen Tension

...ge in heart rate. In this study, in young healthy pigs – with a normal blood vessel regulation and the pharmacologic and experimental conditions used in this study – a significant relation between myocardial pO2 and heart rate was observed. In a working, fully loaded heart, fibrillation resulted in a par...

Pigs Population A Major Threat To Encephalitis Ravaged UP

...he administration still seems unwilling to take on pigs - believed to be at the root of the virtual epidemic. The proliferation of pigs has made matters // worse as the animal is known to be the biggest host for the encephalitis virus, ...

Kidneys Can Be Transplanted From Animals Such As Pigs In Future

... transplant non-human tissues from animals such as pigs in some 5 years from now. This process of transpla...response. Attempts have been made to breed "safer" pigs but very little success has been reported so far. Patients given organs from these animals would st...

Therapeutic cloning by regenerating stem cells from heart muscles

...an trial, the team is to start a trial in dogs and pigs to test the efficacy of the current therapy. Professor Hiroaki Matsubara said, "The heart muscle cells can be useful for people who suffer from enlarged hearts and other diseases that affect heart muscle." Professor Hiroaki Matsubara, in 2003 repor...

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