Avian pneumovirus (APV) is increasingly recognized as an important respiratory pathogen of turkeys causing a rapidly spreading disease of all ages. Because of the significant economic impact of the disease, there has been an urgent and critical need to develop effective vaccines…
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This book, Textbook of Dental Anatomy and Oral Physiology, deals with dental anatomy. Knowledge of dental anatomy and tooth morphology is a foundation for all dental professionals and for the practice of dentistry. The textbook covers all traditional aspects of tooth morphology …
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a term linking the clinical profiles of some of the 21st Century major health problems---obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Both dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and the angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) telmisartan enhance features of M…
The purpose of the research was to study photoperiodism and endocrine control of reproduction in domestic turkeys. In female turkeys, plasma levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) were high at hatch, then declined to low levels at about 10 weeks of age, then rebounded to high levels…
The contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle depends on the reversible phosphorylation of the 20,000 Da myosin light chains (MLC₂₀). The phosphorylation reaction, which is catalyzed by myosin light chain kinase and results in contraction, has been well characterized. In contr…
The overall objective of this dissertation was to evaluate the effects of dietary fiber and short-chain fatty acids on enterocyte differentiation, maturation, and susceptibility to coronavirus infection in turkeys. Initial work involved the development of an indirect immunoperox…
The purpose of this research was to understand developmental patterns of intestinal glucose transport and its role in functional aspects of growth in turkeys. The objective of the first study was to examine developmental patterns of glucose transport in turkeys and to compare di…
An experiment involving 96 turkeys was carried out in conventional battery cages. The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of lactose on the productive performance of turkeys. Another objective was to establish the optimum level of inclusion in the diet. Birds …
Spermiophages were enriched by Percoll density gradient centrifugation from pooled turkey semen and used as immunogen in the production of monoclonal antibodies. Eight hybridoma clones producing antibodies reactive with turkey spermiophages were characterized. All eight monoclon…
Pale, soft, exudative (PSE) turkey meat is a growing problem for the industry and has been associated with rapid postmortem pH decline and loss of protein functionality, similar to PSE pork. Previous research has indicated that antemortem stress factors such as seasonal-type hea…
Semen quantity (volume) and quality (concentration, total number of sperm, percent of live sperm, total number of live sperm, and/or motility) were analyzed in male turkeys from 10 weeks of age to over one year of age in three experiments. The key variable in each of the three s…
Hemorrhagic Enteritis (HE) vaccine is perhaps the most commonly used vaccine in the turkey industry. Although it provides protection against clinical disease, the vaccine is still thought to produce transient immunosuppression. In the field, HE still remains a significant concer…
Experiments were conducted to determine whether feeding diets of different ingredient composition to poults could reduce severity of experimentally-induced stunting syndrome (SS). One-day-old poults were dosed per os with either saline or an inoculum of a homogenate prepared usi…
Scope and method of study. The health benefits of functional foods, such as flaxseed in lowering cholesterol and lowering the risks of atherosclerosis have already been discovered. Our earlier findings indicate that flaxseed reduced plasma cholesterol induced by ovarian hormone …
The objectives of this study were to understand the molecular endocrinology of three different genes/receptors important in the reproductive cycle of the turkey. In the first study, we cloned turkey VIP cDNAs and presented evidence that, unlike the mammalian prepro-VIP molecule,…