Preliminary study of histological comparison on the growth patterns of long-bone cortex in young calf, pig, and sheep.

Some young large farm animals show a laminar bone formation in the long-bone cortex. Such a laminar bone is gradually replaced by Haversian bone with osteons during their growth periods. In this preliminary study, we observed the transverse ground samples of tibia cortex in young calves, pigs, and sheep by backscattered electron imaging.

Apolipoprotein C polymorphism in sheep: allele frequencies and association with plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels.

The genetic polymorphism of apolipoprotein C in normal plasma of four European sheep breeds (Suffolk, Corriedale, Cheviot, and Finn) was first detected using one-dimensional polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing (pH 2.5-5.0) followed by immunoblotting with antihuman apolipoprotein CII antibody.