Publications by authors named "Nathan R N Cruz"
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- Aeromonas bacteria, a common pathogen in tropical fish, can lead to serious infections like septicemia, causing high mortality rates in aquaculture, making its study vital for control measures.
- In an experiment, juvenile pacus were infected with Aeromonas hydrophila, with observations taken at various time points post-infection, showing significant hemodynamic alterations and bacterial presence in tissues by 9 hours.
- Pathological analyses revealed severe tissue damage, including necrosis and vascular issues, particularly after 6 and 9 hours, suggesting that the bacteria spread rapidly and caused irreversible harm to vital organs like the spleen, liver, and kidney.
Captive parrots show a high incidence of obesity and other metabolic disorders due to the consumption of unbalanced diets. Therefore, this study evaluated the digestibility and metabolic effects of transitioning blue-fronted amazons from a high fat diet (sunflower seeds) to processed diets with three degrees of starch gelatinization (SG). The same feed formulation was processed to obtain pelletized feed (PEL) at 27.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSkin is an extensive and easily accessible organ possessing various cell types that are constantly renewed. Previous studies have suggested the presence of a stem cell niche at the bulge region of the hair follicle, which contains cells positive for CD200 and CD34. Thus, this study sought to identify these cell populations in canine skin cells using the following methods 1- collecting samples of adult and fetal skin and isolating and culturing these cells using a method of simple enzymatic digestion and 2- testing the cell cultures for CD200 and CD34 in vitro and comparing them with skin tissue samples (in situ).
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