Overview of spp. and Animal Models in Malaria Research.

Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by protozoan species of the genus and transmitted by female mosquitos of the genus and other Culicidae. Most of the parasites of the genus are highly species specific with more than 200 species described affecting different species of mammals, birds, and reptiles. species strictly affecting humans are , , , and More recently, and other nonhuman primate plasmodia were found to naturally infect humans.

A Review of the Effects of Some Extrinsic Factors on Mice Used in Research.

Animals have been used in research for over 2,000 y. From very crude experiments conducted by ancient scholars, animal research, as a science, was refined over hundreds of years to what we know it as today. However, the housing conditions of animals used for research did not improve significantly until less than 100 years ago when guidelines for housing research animals were first published.

Possibly pathogenic bacteria in aerosols and foams as a result of aeration remediation in a polluted urban waterway.

Newtown Creek is a tributary of the Hudson River Estuary. It has a legacy of both industrial pollution and sewage pollution and has been designated a Superfund site. To ameliorate the chronically low levels of dissolved oxygen detected in the Creek, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has been installing aerators.

Denitrification potential of surface soils of constructed wetlands in Newtown Creek, an urban superfund site.

Denitrification, the anaerobic microbial conversion of nitrate (NO ), a common water pollutant, to nitrogen (N) gases, is often high in the soil of natural wetlands. In areas where natural wetlands have been degraded or destroyed, constructed and restored wetlands have been used to restore ecosystem services like denitrification. Thus, denitrification in restored and constructed wetlands could play an important role in treating anthropogenic N sources such as combined sewer overflow discharges which can be high in NO .

Contributions of Diet and Age to Ulcerative Dermatitis in Female C57BL/6J Mice.

C57BL/6J (B6) mice are commonly affected by ulcerative dermatitis (UD), a disease of unknown etiology with poor response to treatment. To study the possible role of diet in UD, we compared skin changes in B6 female mice fed a high-fat diet with those of mice fed a control diet. In addition, skin samples from mice with no, mild, moderate, and severe clinical signs of UD were examined by light and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).