Using bioelectrical impedance analysis for modeling regression and predicting body fat accumulation in dogs in East Thailand.

Background And Aim: Obesity in dogs leads to several health problems, such as premature death, and contributes to other diseases. Recently, body fat percentage has been considered to represent the body condition of dogs, and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is the most effective method for accurately measuring body fat in dogs. In Thailand, information on the body condition of dogs is limited, and there is no standard body fat level for Thai or mongrel dogs.

Seasonal variation in the number of deaths in Pteropus lylei at Wat Pho Bang Khla temple, Thailand.

Flying foxes have been widely studied as they are well-known reservoirs of infectious agents. Understanding their population dynamics might help to explain seasonal patterns of disease prevalence, and contribute towards the conservation of flying fox populations. Therefore, this study explored the annual variation in the number of deaths in P.

Diurnal behavior and activity budget of the golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) in the Subic bay forest reserve area, the Philippines.

Acerodon jubatus (the Golden-Crowned flying fox) is an endemic species in the Philippines, which was suspected to be a host of the Reston strain of the Ebola virus. As nocturnal animals, the flying foxes spend daytime at the roosting site, which they use for self-maintenance and reproduction. To understand the variation in diurnal behavior and time allocation for various activities in the Golden-Crowned flying fox, we investigated their daytime behavior and activity budget using instantaneous scan sampling and all occurrence focal sampling.

Reproductive performance in diabetes mice with a special reference to uterine natural killer cells and placental growth factor.

To determine the effect of diabetes on reproductive performance, two kinds of diabetes mice, i.e., KK/TaJcl mice with Type-II diabetes and Streptozotocin-induced diabetes mice with Type-I diabetes, were used in this study.

Uterine natural killer cells in perforin and beta(2)-microglobulin deficient mice.

Uterine natural killer (uNK) cells have roles for immune responses at the feto-maternal interface in mice. We studied the effects of beta(2)-microglobulin (beta(2)m) and perforin on proliferation and differentiation of uNK cells in pregnancy, using beta(2)-microglobulin-deficient (beta(2)m(-/-)) mice and perforin-deficient (P(-/-)) mice. The cell population of uNK cells in the metrial gland of P(-/-) mice was tended to be higher than the control B6 mice.

Immunization with tick salivary gland extracts.

Tick burdens cause direct damage to hosts and transmit several disease agents, the majority of which are secreted into feeding lesions through tick salivary glands. Reduced incidence of naturally transmitted tick-borne diseases was recently observed among cattle immunized with tick salivary gland extracts (TSGE). The aim of this work was to compare the ultrastructure of salivary glands from Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus removed from cattle that were immunized with TSGE to those from control cattle injected with saline.