Redoxtrons – An experimental system to study redox processes within the capillary fringe     

Kristof Dorau  Daniel Uteau  Markus Maisch  Andreas Kappler  Stephan Peth  Tim Mansfeldt 《European Journal of Soil Science》2023,74(1):e13347

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In vitro Evaluation of the Torsional Strength Reduction of Neonate Calf Metatarsal Bones with Bicortical Defects Resulting from the Removal of External Fixation Implants     

Stefano Brianza DVM  PhD  Eng.  Susan Vogel DVM  Stephan Rothstock Eng.  Andrè Desrochers DVM  MS  Diplomate ACVS  Ludovic Boure DVM  MSc  DES  Diplomate ACVS & ECVS 《Veterinary surgery : VS》2013,42(1):75-78

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Food supplementation: A tool to increase reproductive output? A case study in the threatened Florida Scrub-Jay     

Stephan J. Schoech  Eli S. Bridge  S. James Reynolds  Jonathan W. Atwell 《Biological conservation》2008,141(1):162-173

The federally threatened Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) has suffered dramatic losses in recent years primarily because of overdevelopment of its unique scrub habitat. Ensuring the survival of this species will require not only measures to reduce habitat loss, but also efforts to increase the numbers of birds in small scattered populations to a point at which they are resilient to extinction from stochastic population fluctuations. Here we evaluate the utility of providing supplementary food during the pre-breeding season as a means of increasing the reproductive output of Florida Scrub-Jays. Data collected from 2000 to 2007 at Archbold Biological Station in south-central Florida indicate a marked effect of supplemental feeding on reproductive output. This increased output appeared to result primarily from larger clutch sizes produced by supplemented female breeders as a result of their advanced laying. Supplementation also increased offspring survival probabilities and the early laying permitted more renesting attempts. Furthermore, annual variation in several reproductive measures was dampened in supplemented birds, suggesting that supplemental feeding may reduce environmental or stochastic effects on reproductive output. Although a number of potential problems may be associated with supplemental feeding (e.g., predator entrainment and increased opportunity for disease transmission), it can serve as a valuable tool for management agencies that wish to rapidly increase local carrying capacity. In addition, food supplementation might benefit translocation efforts both by increasing the number of potential translocation candidates from a donor population and then by supplementing the newly established population to promote rapid growth.  相似文献   

Land use change and mountain biodiversity,edited by E. M. Spehn,M. Liberman and C. Körner. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,Boca Raton,FL 2006. ISBN 0 8493 3523 X,xiii + 362 pp.     

Stephan Harrison 《Land Degradation \u0026amp; Development》2008,19(2):232-232

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The spread of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa—What should be done next?     

Feldmann  Falko  Rieckmann  Ute  Winter  Stephan 《植物病害和植物保护杂志》2019,126(2):97-101

Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection - The following text summarizes the different perspectives of presenters participating in the section Plant Protection in the Tropics and Subtropics, 61st...  相似文献   

Shedding of food-borne pathogens and microbiological carcass contamination in rabbits at slaughter     

Kohler R  Krause G  Beutin L  Stephan R  Zweifel C 《Veterinary microbiology》2008,132(1-2):149-157

To obtain microbiological data from rabbits at slaughter, 500 fecal samples and 500 carcasses samples were examined. All samples tested negative for Listeria and Salmonella. Campylobacter were detected in two fecal samples. Of the 500 fecal samples, 45.8% tested positive for eae (intimin), 1.2% for stx (Shiga toxin), and 1.8% for both eae and stx. By colony hybridization, 56 eae positive Escherichia coli strains were isolated. Among them, 27 strains (48.2%) were of the serotypes O178:H7 and O153:H7, whereas 15 strains (26.8%) belonged to a serogroup that has not yet been described (O(CB10681):H7). All strains possessed intimin beta1 and the translocated intimin receptor (tir) capable of being tyrosine phosphorylated. None of the strains harbored the genes for Shiga toxins, EAST1 (astA), bundlin (bfpA), or the EAF plasmid. Slaughter rabbits therefore constitute a reservoir for certain atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. On rabbit carcasses, average total bacterial counts accounted for 3.3 log CFU cm(-2). Enterobacteriaceae and coagulase positive staphylococci (CPS) were detected on 118 (23.6%) and 153 (30.6%) carcasses, respectively. Enterobacteriaceae and CPS counts of positive samples were mainly <1.5 log CFU cm(-2). Among 153 selected CPS isolates, 98.7% were identified as Staphylococcus aureus. None of the 151 isolated strains harbored the gene for methicillin resistance (mecA). Genes for staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) were detected in 102 strains. The combinations of seg and sei (53 strains) and sed, seg, sei, and sej (27 strains) dominated.  相似文献   

Plasma concentration of transforming growth factor-β1 and hepatic fibrosis in dogs          下载免费PDF全文

Stephan Neumann  Franz-Josef Kaup    Baerbel Beardi 《Canadian journal of veterinary research》2008,72(5):428-431

Liver fibrosis is a morphologic alteration that accompanies chronic liver diseases. Apart from analysis of liver biopsy specimens, there has been no means of diagnosing and evaluating the course of liver fibrosis in the dog. Several plasma markers, including transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1), are used to indicate liver fibrosis in humans, but none has been validated for use in dogs. There is a significant correlation between the presence and severity of hepatic fibrosis and the plasma concentration of TGF-β1 in humans with hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. The feasibility of using TGF-β1 as a marker for hepatic fibrosis in dogs was evaluated by comparing plasma concentrations in 29 healthy dogs and 18 dogs with liver disease. The plasma concentrations of TGF-β1, were 193 to 598 pg/mL in the healthy dogs, 143 to 475 pg/mL in the 7 dogs with mild hepatic fibrosis or none at all, and 427 to 1289 pg/mL in 11 dogs with moderate to severe hepatic fibrosis. The plasma concentrations of TGF-β1 in the dogs with moderate to severe fibrosis differed significantly (P < 0.001) from those in the other 2 groups, whereas the concentrations in the dogs with mild or no fibrosis did not differ significantly from those in the healthy dogs (P > 0.05). It was concluded that TGF-β1 is a potential plasma marker for hepatic fibrosis in dogs.  相似文献   

Myopathy and alterations in serum 3-methylhistidine in dogs with liver disease     

Neumann S  Welling H  Bilzer T  Thuere S 《Research in veterinary science》2008,84(2):178-184

Liver disease can influence the metabolism of various other organs. Regarding the influence of liver diseases on muscles, only a few studies done on people exist. The goal of our study was to investigate the influence of liver diseases on muscles in dogs. Twenty-eight dogs with different liver diseases were investigated in this study. The diagnosis of muscle alteration was based on electromyography (EMG), creatine kinase serum activity, 3-methylhistidine serum concentration and a muscle biopsy in some cases. Our results suggest that liver diseases in dogs can be accompanied with muscle alteration. 3-Methylhistidine serum concentration as a new parameter for muscle destruction in dogs was significantly increased compared to clinical healthy dogs and was comparable to those concentrations in dogs with histologically confirmed myopathy of different types. The differentiation of the liver diseases into severe hepatitis, moderate hepatitis and liver tumours showed a significant elevation of 3-methylhistidine serum concentration in cases of liver tumours (P=0.03) and a tendency in cases of severe hepatitis (P=0.07). Based on our study we can conclude that liver diseases have an influence on muscles in dogs and 3-methylhistidine could be a useful parameter for muscle destruction.  相似文献   

Measures for interoperability of phenotypic data: minimum information requirements and formatting     

Hanna??wiek-Kupczyńska  Thomas?Altmann  Daniel?Arend  Elizabeth?Arnaud  Dijun?Chen  Guillaume?Cornut  Fabio?Fiorani  Wojciech?Frohmberg  Astrid?Junker  Christian?Klukas  Matthias?Lange  Cezary?Mazurek  Anahita?Nafissi  Pascal?Neveu  Jan?van?Oeveren  Cyril?Pommier  Hendrik?Poorter  Philippe?Rocca-Serra  Susanna-Assunta?Sansone  Uwe?Scholz  Marco?van?Schriek  ümit?Seren  Bj?rn?Usadel  Stephan?Weise  Paul?Kersey  Pawe??KrajewskiEmail author 《Plant methods》2016,12(1):44

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Phenotypic and genotypic traits of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from pig carcasses     

Nitzsche S  Zweifel C  Stephan R 《Veterinary microbiology》2007,120(3-4):292-299

A total of 142 S. aureus strains isolated from pig carcasses from abattoirs A (n = 98) and B (n = 44) were characterized by phenotypic and genotypic traits. Phenotypically, 96% showed yellow-pigmented colonies, 63% β/δ hemolysis, 85% were egg yolk-positive and 99% were positive for clumping factor/protein A. Only 25% of the strains were resistant to the antimicrobials tested (abattoir A: 19%; abattoir B: 39%), especially to penicillin and ampicillin. None of the strains harbored the mecA gene, which is conserved in methicillin-resistant S. aureus. The biofilm associated genes icaA, icaD and bap were present in 100%, 100% and 0% of the strains. Genes for staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) were detected in 51% (abattoir A) and 14% of the strains (abattoir B). Among strains harboring SE genes (n = 56), 63%, 31%, 4% and 2% tested positive for seg/sei, seg, sei and sec, respectively. The amplification of the 3′ end of the coagulase gene (coa) yielded amplicons of 400, 436, 602, 682 or 776 bp. Coa restriction profile (CRP) analysis using HaeIII resulted in seven patterns (a–d, e1–e3). CRP (c) was detected most frequently at both abattoirs, whereas CRP (a) was restricted to abattoir A and CRP (e3) to abattoir B. In the slaughter process (abattoir B), (i) two CRPs (b and d) were only found before dehairing/singeing, and (ii) four CRPs (c, e1–e3) were identified throughout the process. The genotyping revealed a remarkable homogeneity in S. aureus strains from the two different abattoirs and the slaughter process stages. These results may be explained by the distribution of a limited number of S. aureus genotypes in the pig population. Moreover, as the predominant CRPs (c, e1–e3) persisted throughout the slaughter process in abattoir B, it may be hypothesized that these types are characterized by colonization advantages.  相似文献