Piglets' acute responses to local anesthetic injection and surgical castration: Effects of the injection method and interval between injection and castration.

Although applied in some countries, efficacy of local anesthetics based on procaine to mitigate acute responses to piglet castration remains questioned. This paper presents results from a factorial study examining the effects of two methods of injection of a procaine-based drug (intra-funicular, IF, vs. intra-testicular, IT), and four intervals between drug injection and castration (2.

Piglets' acute responses to procaine-based local anesthetic injection and surgical castration: Effects of two volumes of anesthetic.

Surgical castration of piglets is painful, but practiced routinely in commercial pig production. Procaine-based local anesthetics are used to mitigate piglet pain during castration in some countries. Yet, effects of the volume of anesthetic injected remain under-studied.

Distinguishing cellular from abiotic spheroidal microstructures in the ca. 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation.

The morphogenesis of most carbonaceous microstructures that resemble microfossils in Archean (4-2.5 Ga old) rocks remains debated. The associated carbonaceous matter may even-in some cases-derive from abiotic organic molecules.

Retrospective and integrative analyses of molecular characteristics and their specific imaging parameters in pediatric grade 1 gliomas.

Background: Pediatric low-grade gliomas (PLGG) are the most common brain tumors diagnosed during childhood and represent a heterogeneous group associating variable molecular abnormalities. To go further and develop specific statistical patterns between tumor molecular background, imaging features, and patient outcome, a retrospective study was performed in a group of non-neurofibromatosis type 1 (non-NF1) grade 1 PLGGs.

Patients And Methods: Seventy-eight children, followed from 2004 to 2017, were retrospectively reported.

Combined use of two supervised learning algorithms to model sea turtle behaviours from tri-axial acceleration data.

Accelerometers are becoming ever more important sensors in animal-attached technology, providing data that allow determination of body posture and movement and thereby helping to elucidate behaviour in animals that are difficult to observe. We sought to validate the identification of sea turtle behaviours from accelerometer signals by deploying tags on the carapace of a juvenile loggerhead (), an adult hawksbill () and an adult green turtle () at Aquarium La Rochelle, France. We recorded tri-axial acceleration at 50 Hz for each species for a full day while two fixed cameras recorded their behaviours.