Soil-Plant Relationships in Soybean Cultivated under Crop Rotation after 17 Years of No-Tillage and Occasional Chiseling.

No-tillage cover crops contribute to better soil quality, being able to replace mechanized tillage management. This observation can only be made after several years of adopting conservationist practices and through research on soil-plant relationships. The objective of the research was to verify the relationship between the production components, physiological, root development, and physical-hydric properties of the soil in the yield of soybean grown in succession to different cover crops or with soil chiseling.

Therapeutic activity of chlorhexidine-poloxamer antiseptic gel on wound healing in rats: a preclinical study.

Despite the progress in curative and preventive medicine, skin lesions after injuries or surgical interventions are still a big problem. The aim of wound care is to get damaged tissues to heal as soon as possible. A gel-forming material helps to maintain proper humidity in the wound and promotes the healing process.

DETERMINATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF CHLORHEXIDINE GEL.

Many researchers have advocated in recent times that antiseptic use in healing wounds should be discouraged. Antiseptics have been found to retard healing of wounds. Poloxamer 407 shows thermoreversible properties, which are of the utmost interest in optimizing drug formulation (fluid state at room temperature facilitating administration and gel state above sol-gel transition temperature, at body temperature, promoting prolonged release of pharmacological agents).

Efficacy of Topical Therapy with Newly Developed Terbinafine and Econazole Formulations in the Treatment of Dermatophytosis in Cats.

In the field of veterinary dermatology dermatophytosis is one of the most frequently occurring infectious diseases, therefore its treatment should be effective, convenient, safe and inexpensive. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of newly developed topical formulations in the treatment of cats with dermatophytosis. Evaluation of clinical efficacy and safety of terbinafine and econazole formulations administered topically twice a day was performed in 40 cats.

Antimicrobial resistance patterns to beta-lactams of gram-positive cocci isolated from bovine mastitis in Lithuania.

The aim of the study was to isolate gram-positive cocci from cows with mastitis and to determine their resistance to beta-lactamic antibiotics. Eight hundred and nine strains were isolated and identified as staphylococci (n=516), streptococci (n=199) and enterococci (n=94) from sub-clinical and clinical cases of bovine mastitis in Lithuania. The most common causative agents of udder disease included: S.

Influence of novel intravenous complex solution of Ca, Mg and phosphates on blood biochemical parameters of healthy and paretic cows.

The article describes the dynamics of changes in blood concentrations of the active substances present in the solution after its infusion to healthy cows in comparison to NaCI solution as well as the response of paretic cows to treatment with the new complex solution. Cows received a dose of 400 ml of A1 solution (containing 8.4 g of Ca2+) intravenously.

Interaction between the levels of hormones and minerals in sera of healthy and sick cows.

An interaction between blood levels of parathyroid hormone, calcitonin, 1.25-dihydroxycholecalciferol and levels of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium was examined in 85 cows, which included healthy cows and cows with ostemalacia, mastitis and paresis. Levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and calcitonin were determined in vitro using IMMULITE analyser (Diagnostic Products Corporation, USA), by means of immunometric assay.

Correlation of different biochemical parameters in blood sera of healthy and sick cows.

Metabolic diseases of cows represent the leading internal pathology in Lithuania in terms of incidence and economic impact. This paper summarizes the mineral metabolic state of milk cows, and details the influence of feeding on serum levels of calcium, nonorganic phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium, glucose, total protein, and urea quantity, and correlationd among them, in healthy dry or post-calving cows as well as in cows with osteomalacia and milk fever after calving. There was less pronounced hypocalcaemia and there were only minor changes in phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and sodium in the serum of healthy dry and post-calving cows that had silage and mineral-vitamin supplements, compared to cows that did not have supplements and silage.

[Antimicrobial action of ammonium salts of fused heterocycles containing ortho-nitrogen].

By alkylation of hexamethylenetetramine with halogenated derivatives of ketones, ethers, esters or amides of acids, alkyl- and aralkyl halides the corresponding N-monoalkylated compounds of hexamethylenetetramine were obtained. The quaternization of pyridine nitrogen in 5,6-benzoquinoline, 8-hydroxyquinoline, quinoline, 1,10-phenanthroline molecules with alkyl- or aralkylhalides was carried out. The susceptibility of Gram-positive (Streptococcus agalactiae and Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram-negative (E.

[Preparation, analysis and anti-anemic action of peroral powders with ferrous oxalate. Ferosol. 2].

Experiments with piglets showed good assimilation and metabolism of iron (II) in antianaemic powder Ferosol-1. In order to improve this drug, manganese, calcium (Ferosol-2, 1 composition) and ascorbic acid (Ferosol-2, 2 composition) were added. Manganese and ascorbic acid stimulate erythropoiesis and being strong reductants stabilize iron (II) on storage and in gastrointestinal tract.

[Preparation, analysis and anti-anemic action of peroral powders with ferrous oxalate. Ferosol-1].

Investigation of new stable iron (II) compounds is still an actual problem of today. Therefore we synthesized ferrous oxalate and prepared a stable antianaemic powder Ferosol-1 including copper, zinc and cobalt. We used colour tests, precipitation reactions and paper chromatography for identification of components of this powder.