ULTRASONOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ABDOMINAL ESOPHAGUS AND CARDIA IN DOGS     

Guillaume Gory  Delphine N. Rault  Laure Gatel  Claire Dally  Patrick Belli  Laurent Couturier  Eddy Cauvin 《Veterinary radiology & ultrasound》2014,55(5):552-560

Differential diagnoses for regurgitation and vomiting in dogs include diseases of the gastroesophageal junction. The purpose of this cross‐sectional study was to describe ultrasonographic characteristics of the abdominal esophagus and gastric cardia in normal dogs and dogs with clinical disease involving this region. A total of 126 dogs with no clinical signs of gastrointestinal disease and six dogs with clinical diseases involving the gastroesophageal junction were included. For seven euthanized dogs, ultrasonographic features were also compared with gross pathology and histopathology. Cardial and abdominal esophageal wall thicknesses were measured ultrasonographically for all normal dogs and effects of weight, sex, age, and stomach filling were tested. Five layers could be identified in normal esophageal and cardial walls. The inner esophageal layer was echogenic, corresponding to the cornified mucosa and glandular portion of the submucosa. The cardia was characterized by a thick muscularis, and a transitional zone between echogenic esophageal and hypoechoic gastric mucosal layers. Mean (±SD) cardial wall thicknesses for normal dogs were 7.6 mm (±1.6), 9.7 mm (±1.8), 10.8 mm (±1.6), 13.3 mm (±2.5) for dogs in the <10 kg, 10–19.9 kg, 20–29.9 kg and ≥30 kg weight groups, respectively. Mean (±SD) esophageal wall thicknesses were: 4.1 mm (±0.6), 5.1 mm (±1.3), 5.6 mm (±1), and 6.4 mm (±1.1) for the same weight groups, respectively. Measurements of wall thickness were significantly correlated with dog weight group. Ultrasonography assisted diagnosis in all six clinically affected dogs. Findings supported the use of transabdominal ultrasonography as a diagnostic test for dogs with suspected gastroesophageal disease.  相似文献   

An ex vivo evaluation of efficacy of refrigerated canine plasma     

Adam R. Grochowsky DVM  Elizabeth A. Rozanski DVM  DACVECC  DACVIM  Armelle M. de Laforcade DVM  DACVECC  Claire R. Sharp BSc  BVMS  MS  DACVECC  Dawn M. Meola BS  Jessica J. Schavone BS  CVT  Majory B. Brooks DVM  DACVIM 《Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care》2014,24(4):388-397

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The veterinary trauma initiative: Why bother?     

Kelly Hall DVM  MS  DACVECC  Claire Sharp BSc  BVM  MS  DACVECC 《Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care》2014,24(6):639-641

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Identification and characterization of genes that control fat deposition in chickens     

Hirwa Claire D’Andre  Wallace Paul  Xu Shen  Xinzheng Jia  Rong Zhang  Liang Sun  Xiquan Zhang 《畜牧与生物技术杂志(英文版)》2014,5(1):22-37

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Dairy sheep production research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,USA-a review     

David L Thomas  Yves M Berger  Brett C McKusick  Claire M Mikolayunas 《畜牧与生物技术杂志(英文版)》2014,(2):127-138

Commercial milking of sheep is a new agricultural industry in the United States starting approximately 30 yr ago. The industry is still small, but it is growing. The majority of the sheep milk is used in the production of specialty cheeses. The United States is the major importer of sheep milk cheeses with 50 to 60% of annual world exports coming to the United States during the past 20 yr. Therefore, there is considerable growth potential for the industry in the United States. The only dairy sheep research flock in North America is located at the Spooner Agricultural Research Station of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research program started in 1993 and has been multifaceted; dealing with several areas important to commercial dairy sheep farmers. The East Friesian and Lacaune dairy breeds were compared and introduced to the industry through the research program. Both dairy breeds produced significantly more milk than traditional meat-wool breeds found in the U.S., but the two breeds differed in their production traits. East Friesian-cross ewes produced more lambs and slightly more milk than Lacaune-cross ewes whereas Lacaune-cross ewes produced milk with a higher percentage of fat and protein than East Friesian-cross ewes. Lactation physiology studies have shown that ewes with active corpora lutea have increased milk yields, oxytocin release during milking is required to obtain normal fat percentages in the milk, large udder cisterns of dairy ewes can allow for increased milking intervals, and short daylengths during late pregnancy results in increased milk yield. In the nutrition area, legume-grass pastures and forages with a higher percentage of legume will result in increased milk production. Grazing ewes respond to additional supplementation with increased milk yield, but it is important to match the supplement to the quality of the grazing. Ewes on high quality legume-grass pastures that are high in rumen degradable protein respond with increased milk production to supplements high in energy and/or  相似文献   

A well-established fact: Rapid mineralization of organic inputs is an important factor for soil carbon sequestration     

Denis Angers  Dominique Arrouays  Rémi Cardinael  Claire Chenu  Marc Corbeels  Julien Demenois  Mark Farrell  Manuel Martin  Budiman Minasny  Sylvie Recous  Johan Six 《European Journal of Soil Science》2022,73(3):e13242

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Nitrogen isotopic composition of leached nitrate and soil organic matter as an indicator of denitrification in a sloping drained agricultural plot and adjacent uncultivated riparian buffer strips   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Claire Billy  Gilles Billen  François Birgand 《Soil biology & biochemistry》2010,42(1):108-117

In the small, agricultural, artificially drained Orgeval watershed δ¹⁵N values of leached nitrates and soil organic nitrogen were found to be significantly higher than the primary nitrogen (N) sources from which they are derived, namely, synthetic fertilizers, atmospheric deposition, and symbiotic or nonsymbiotic N₂ fixation (all with δ¹⁵N close to zero). In vertical soil profiles, the δ¹⁵N of organic N increased with depth, reaching higher values (up to 8‰) particularly at stations that were frequently waterlogged as judged from ochre iron traces, such as downhill field sites or in riparian buffer strips. Nitrification, volatilization, and denitrification are the main fractionating processes able to modify the isotopic composition of soil N. Using a newly designed algorithm for calculating the equilibrium isotopic composition of all soil N species, resulting from the average annual balance of their transformations, we show that the observed trends can be explained by the action of denitrification. We suggest that the isotopic composition of soil organic N can be used as a semiquantitative indicator of the intensity of denitrification integrated over century-long periods.  相似文献   

Hannah Wittman, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Nettie Wiebe (eds): Food sovereignty: reconnecting food, nature and community     

Claire Nettle 《Agriculture and Human Values》2013,30(2):313-314

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Is green infrastructure an effective climate adaptation strategy for conserving biodiversity? A case study with the great crested newt     

Astrid J. A. Van Teeffelen  Claire C. Vos  Rene Jochem  Johannes M. Baveco  Henk Meeuwsen  Jelle P. Hilbers 《Landscape Ecology》2015,30(5):937-954

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A xenia effect on number and volume of cotyledon cells and on seed weight in faba bean (Vicia faba L.)     

Gérard Duc  Annie Moessner  Françoise Moussy  Claire Mousset-Déclas 《Euphytica》2001,117(2):169-174

The female line 1709, carrying the recessivecharacter green cotyledon, marker of the embryogenotype, was cross-pollinated by bees in the presenceof either male line HG115 or male line Dial63. In thecomparison of seeds which resulted either fromintercrossing or from selfing, a xenia effect wasobserved on volume and number of cotyledon cells andon individual seed weight which was dependent on themale line. The increase of hybrid seed weight inducedby the small-seeded male line Dial63 was larger thanthe one induced by the large-seeded male line HG115.The xenia effect on seed weight was correlated withthe level of heterosis in the F1 plant's growth.  相似文献