caused clinical babesiosis in a female Shih Tzu dog.

A 2-year-old female Shih Tzu dog was submitted with the history of anorexia and depression for one week and no prior surgery. Fever and pale mucosa were noticed in physical examination. Microscopic examination of the Giemsa-stained blood smear disclosed large form of  and single to four pear-shaped merozoites within erythrocytes (RBCs).

Assessment of hepatic oxidative damage, paraoxonase-1 activity, and lipid profile in cattle naturally infected with Ba7besia bigemina.

Naturally occurring Babesia bigemina infection in cattle is associated with changes in the status of oxidative stress, trace elements, sialic acid, and cholinesterase activity in blood. However, to date there is no description of hepatic damage in the infected animals. More importantly, the majority of the above-mentioned causative factors are synthesized or stored in the liver.

Evaluation of inflammatory biomarkers in goats naturally infected with Babesia ovis.

This study was designed to evaluate the effects of Babesia ovis infection on concentrations of some essential acute phase proteins (APPs) including albumin, fibrinogen, serum amyloid A, haptoglobin, and ceruloplasmin as well as total, protein-binding, and lipid-binding sialic acids (TSA, PBSA, and LBSA) and two crucial cytokines including interferon-γ (IFN-γ) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). Some hematological parameters also were evaluated. Furthermore, any probable correlation among the APPs, SAs, IFN-γ, and TNF-α was calculated.

Status of oxidative stress, trace elements, sialic acid and cholinesterase activity in cattle naturally infected with Babesia bigemina.

Babesia bigemina infection (also known as Texas fever) is reported as the most prevalent and main causative agent of bovine babesiosis, worldwide. The current study was undertaken to assess indicators of oxidative stress including activities of antioxidant enzymes and total antioxidant capacity (TAC), oxidation status of biomolecules and serum levels of trace elements as well as indicators of inflammation including sialic acid (SA) contents and cholinesterase activity in cattle naturally infected with B. bigemina.

A molecular study on spp. in cattle and ticks in West-Azerbaijan province, Iran.

A total number of 450 blood samples were collected from 45 different randomly selected cattle herds. Light microscopic examination of blood smears revealed spp. infection in 4.

Protein Clustering and Interactome Analysis in Parkinson and Alzheimer's Diseases.

Background: Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases (AD and PD) are the two most important neurodegenerative disorders. This paper aims to determine the possible molecular linkage between these two common neurodegenerative diseases by a combination of computational investigations.

Methods: According to our aim, common sets of identified proteins from the KEGG database were further analyzed based on Gene Ontology (GO) annotation and sequence similarities by the agglomerative hierarchical clustering.