箱型矮栏养猪好

自1960年来,已建造了数千幢部分或全部漏缝地板的肥育猪舍,但每头肥育猪的空间有限,通常为O.54~O.64平方米.在西欧进行的比较试验证明,当采用部分漏缝地板,且每头猪有o.70平方米空间时,技术效益较好.而如果猪能在箱型矮栏里休息,效果就更佳好动的肥育猪一般不怕贼风或低温的影响.试验表明,把饲喂和排粪区与躺卧区分开,是很有利的.躺卧区三面能够关闭,并可用顶盖覆盖,以创造     

CD4+ and CD8+ T- lymphocytopenia in a filly with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Decreased proportion of CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes in peripheral blood likely contributed to susceptibility to Pneumocystis carinii in a foal. Cytological evaluation of bronchoalveolar lavage was required for identification of the pathogen and serial flow-cytometric analysis of peripheral blood lymphocytes documented transient low expression of CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes. Although immunodeficiency is uncommon, it must be included in the differential diagnosis for patients suffering from chronic or opportunistic infections and may provide an indication for immunostimulant therapy.     

Effects of Exogenous Insulin on Luteolysis and Reproductive Cyclicity in the Mare

Insulin is a pancreatic hormone that classically regulates carbohydrate and fat metabolism, but also appears to play a role in various reproductive processes. A preliminary study suggested insulin production by day 10 to 18 equine conceptuses. The aim of the present study was to examine the hypothesis that insulin is the conceptus signal responsible for maternal recognition of pregnancy (MRP) in the mare, or otherwise influences reproductive cyclicity during the MRP period. Six Warmblood mares were treated daily during days 7 to 17 after ovulation of two successive oestrous cycles with either (short and intermediate acting) insulin or control saline. Mares were assigned randomly to treatment, and crossed over during the subsequent cycle. Time of ovulation and corpus luteum surface area were determined by serial transrectal ultrasonographic examination of the mares' ovaries, and daily jugular vein blood samples were analysed for progesterone and luteinizing hormone (LH) concentrations. On day 14 of dioestrus, the luteolytic drive was examined by measuring systemic 15-ketodihydroprostaglandin F_{2 α} (PG-metabolite) release in response to oxytocin challenge. In addition, yolk sac fluid recovered from 32 day 10 to 14 equine conceptuses was analysed for insulin concentrations. Insulin administration did not affect luteal size, dioestrus length, the interovulatory interval, or circulating LH concentrations. Insulin administration also failed to suppress oxytocin-induced PGF_{2 α} release, and tended to depress systemic progesterone concentrations. Finally, insulin could not be detected in the yolk sac fluid of day 10 to 14 equine conceptuses by radio-immunoassay. It is concluded that insulin administered daily during days 7 to 17 of dioestrus has little or no effect on reproductive cyclicity in the mare, and is unlikely to be the MRP signal.     

兽药产品区域市场营销策略

传统的营销模式已经不能满足企业发展的需求，建立新的兽药产品区域市场营销体系是兽药企业的选择。     

Web-based, interactive simulation of an anesthesia machine

Gases are transparent and the piping layout in anesthesia machines is not obvious, making it hard to understand anesthesia machine function, potential failure modes, and recovery from faults. We experimented with an approach that simplified the layout of the anesthesia machine piping by removing extraneous details and making gases not only visible, but also color-coded. More than 15 anesthesia machine controls were represented by icons that a user can adjust by clicking on the icon with a pointing device and subsequently observing the effect of his/her intervention on anesthesia machine function in real time. We simulated two anesthesia machine failures and also supported non-English languages and non-US gas color codes. Further, we initiated an experiment in Web philanthropy by deliberately choosing to make the educational module accessible without charge and selected the Web as the preferred medium for dissemination of the Virtual Anesthesia Machine (VAM) viewable at http://www.anest.ufl.edu/vam . Originally designed for use in human anesthesiology, a significant percentage (about 30%) of the 54 000 international visitors, as tracked by an independent third-party Web traffic monitoring service, for the period 9/00–5/02, were from the veterinary field. VAM is being used as part of the curriculum in veterinary programs in the US and overseas and has been well received by the global anesthesia community (human and veterinary).     

Transport and hindlimb exchange of plasma and blood-cell amino acids in calves fed soy- or urea-based purified diets

Plasma and blood-cell free amino acid concentrations and venoarterial differences across the hindlimbs via abdominal aorta and caudal vena cava cannulae were determined on Holstein steer calves (130 kg) fed purified diets containing soy protein or urea as the sole source of dietary N. Calves were fed 24 hourly feedings per day to promote "steady-state" metabolism. Trials lasted 30 d and consisted of four calves per treatment. Urea feeding resulted in reduced venous concentrations of plasma amino acids, namely, a 30% decrease in essential amino acids (P less than .05) and a 16% decrease in nonessential amino acids (P less than .10). Nonessential amino acid concentrations of blood cells were affected little in urea-fed calves; however, blood-cell essential amino acid concentrations were depressed due to significant decreases in threonine, valine, methionine, isoleucine and phenylalanine. A net negative concentration difference across the hindlimbs for plasma free amino acids was noted for soy-fed calves. Urea feeding resulted in a small positive amino acid concentration difference. The branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) changed (P less than .01) from a large negative concentration difference in soy-fed calves to essentially a zero difference in calves fed urea. Blood-cell total amino acid change across hindlimbs showed no treatment differences, although BCAA changed from large outputs from the blood cells in soy-fed calves to essentially zero change in urea-fed calves.