item: #1 of 201 id: haf-10000 author: Nordio, Laura; Stornelli, Valentina; Giudice, chiara title: MMP-9 immunohistochemical expression is correlated with histologic grade in feline diffuse iris melanoma date: 2018-06-12 words: 595 flesch: 52 summary: MMP-9 expression has been positively correlated with metastasizing behavior in human posterior uveal melanoma (El-Shabrawi et al., 2001). Tumors with MMP-9 expression in more than 50% of neoplastic cells were 13,6% in grade I cases, 40,0% in grade II and 36,8% in grade III. keywords: grade; iris; melanoma cache: haf-10000.pdf plain text: haf-10000.txt item: #2 of 201 id: haf-10001 author: Dai, Francesca; Dalla Costa, Emanuela; Minero, Michela title: Efficacy of a standardized training on horse welfare indicators: a preliminary study date: 2018-06-12 words: 616 flesch: 58 summary: Our results suggest that the HGS scoring system is easy to apply even without any training; however, the training method applied proved useful to improve the reliability of HGS scores. Table 1: ICC scores pre- and post-training for each Facial Action Unit and total HGS score. keywords: hgs; training cache: haf-10001.pdf plain text: haf-10001.txt item: #3 of 201 id: haf-10002 author: Manzoni, Elena Franca Maria; Arcuri, Sharon; Brevini, Tiziana Angela Luisa; Gandolfi, Fulvio title: Matrix stiffness boosts pancreatic differentiation via the YAP/TAZ mechanotransduction mediated pathway date: 2018-06-12 words: 854 flesch: 46 summary: b Insulin expression changes in porcine skin fibroblasts plated on plastic dishes (T0p, blue) and PAA gels (T0g, red) and subjected to endocrine pancreatic induction (days 10, 14, 36). c Quantification of the nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio of YAP in untreated fibroblasts (T0p, T0g), after 18-hour exposure to 5-aza-CR (Post 5-aza-CRp, Post 5-aza-CRg) and at the end of pancreatic induction (36p, 36g). keywords: aza; cells; fibroblasts; pennarossa cache: haf-10002.pdf plain text: haf-10002.txt item: #4 of 201 id: haf-10004 author: Gambini, Matteo; Forlani, Annalisa; Tecilla, Marco; Caniatti, Mario; Roccabianca, Paola title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Cytology in Canine Splenic Lesions date: 2018-06-12 words: 637 flesch: 46 summary: Splenic cytology had a diagnostic accuracy of 67.39%, a sensitivity of 55.38%, a specificity of 96.3%, a positive and negative predictive value of 97.3% and 47.27% (Table 1). The major limit of splenic cytology was a reduced sensitivity related to a high number of false negative results that strongly correlate with lesion distribution, size and type and with the blood storage function of the spleen resulting in hematic samples (Bertazzolo et al., 2005; O’Brien et al., 2013). keywords: canine; cytology; veterinary cache: haf-10004.pdf plain text: haf-10004.txt item: #5 of 201 id: haf-10005 author: Colombo, Martina; Morselli, Maria Giorgia; Luvoni, Gaia Cecilia title: Follicle-like environment for domestic cat vitrified oocytes. date: 2018-06-12 words: 529 flesch: 45 summary: The use of three-dimensional (3D) follicle-like structures, i.e. a combination of granulosa cells (GCs) and semipermeable 3D matrices, could mimic the physiological microenvironment and enhance VOs maturation and embryo development. However, further advancements in VOs culture methods would optimize the use of these valuable resources. keywords: days; gcs cache: haf-10005.pdf plain text: haf-10005.txt item: #6 of 201 id: haf-10006 author: Serra, Valentina; Bazzocchi, Chiara; Di Lecce, Irene title: Detection of a novel bacterium of the genus Midichloria (family Midichloriaceae) in avian-borne Hyalomma marginatum ticks and their trans-Saharan migratory hosts date: 2018-06-12 words: 625 flesch: 51 summary: The aims of this study are: 1) evaluate the presence of Midichloria DNA in H. marginatum ticks and blood collected from trans-Saharan migratory birds; 2) quantify Midichloria bacteria in ticks through a novel quantitative PCR (qPCR). : Range values of gyrB and cal copy numbers and of gyrB/cal ratios obtained in H. marginatum ticks through qPCR analysis. keywords: midichloria; migratory; ticks cache: haf-10006.pdf plain text: haf-10006.txt item: #7 of 201 id: haf-10009 author: Zamarian, Valentina; Lecchi, Cristina; Ceciliani, Fabrizio; Grieco, Valeria; Stefanello, Damiano; Ferrari, Roberta title: Evaluation of quantity and purity of miRNAs extracted from different matrices collected from dogs with Mast Cell Tumours. date: 2018-06-12 words: 581 flesch: 52 summary: Vol. V, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short non-coding RNA, which interact with the 3’ UTR region of complementary mRNA to decrease or inhibit the translation of proteins (Lai, 2002). MiRNAs regulate pathways in various pathophysiological status, and are regarded as biomarkers for early diagnosis of several diseases, including cancer (Di Leva et al., 2014). keywords: mirnas; ng/µl; saliva cache: haf-10009.pdf plain text: haf-10009.txt item: #8 of 201 id: haf-10011 author: Ruggerone, Beatrice; Troia, Roberta; Murgia, Elsa; Giunti, Massimo; Dondi, Francesco; Paltrinieri, Saverio title: Diagnosis of sepsis in dogs by measuring carbonylated proteins (PCOs) and paraoxonase (PON-1) date: 2018-06-12 words: 631 flesch: 51 summary: Because Protein Carbonyls (PCOs), that result from protein oxidation, are widely used in human medicine as sepsis markers (Abu-Zidan et al., 2002; Colombo et al., 2015), the aim of our study was to validate an ELISA kit (Enzolifesciences, 3V Chimica, Roma) on canine serum and to measure PCOs, after a preliminary validation study, in three groups (homogeneous for age and size): healthy dogs without clinical or laboratory abnormalities (A, n=14), dogs with septic (B, n=14) and non-septic inflammation (C, n=12) at the first presentation and without previous treatments. Compared with controls, the concentration of PCOs was significantly higher either in dogs with sepsis (P<0.001) or in dogs with non-septic inflammation (P=0.005) but no significant differences were found between the two groups of sick dogs (Figure 1a). keywords: dogs; pcos; sepsis cache: haf-10011.pdf plain text: haf-10011.txt item: #9 of 201 id: haf-10013 author: Genova, Francesca; Longeri, Maria; Cozzi, Cristina M; Bagnato, Alessandro; Strillacci, Maria G title: Genome-wide CNV Mapping in Felis catus Using NGS Data date: 2018-06-12 words: 629 flesch: 58 summary: F. Genova1*, M. Longeri1, C.M. Cozzi1, A. Bagnato1, M.G. Strillacci1 and the 99Lives Consortium 1 Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 10, Milano, Italy. 22(12): 1540-2. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 0 15000000 30000000 45000000 60000000 75000000 90000000 105000000 120000000 135000000 150000000 165000000 180000000 195000000 210000000 225000000 240000000 F2 F1 E3 E2 E1 D4 D3 D2 D1 C2 C1 B4 B3 B2 B1 A3 A2 A1 Figure 1: Felis catus CNVRs map. keywords: cat; genome cache: haf-10013.pdf plain text: haf-10013.txt item: #10 of 201 id: haf-10014 author: Castrica, Marta; Balzaretti, Caludia Maria; Baldi, Antonella title: Meal portion sizes and their potential impacts on food waste: case study of school meals in Italy date: 2018-06-12 words: 616 flesch: 55 summary: A lack of conformity of food portions with nutritional guidelines can potentially lead to a double negative externality: overweight children and food waste. Food categories with highest relative standard deviations values were cooked and raw vegetables (0.29 and 0.35 respectively) that indicate great levels of heterogeneity in food portions amongst Italian regions. keywords: food; portion; waste cache: haf-10014.pdf plain text: haf-10014.txt item: #11 of 201 id: haf-10015 author: Lin, Shih-kuo; Chiesa, Luca Maria; Pasquale, Elisa title: Preliminary evaluation results of the extraction methods for Fipronil and its metabolites and Amitraz in chicken eggs date: 2018-06-12 words: 691 flesch: 57 summary: According to the database of Rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF), after the Belgian authority reported Fipronil residues in chicken eggs in 2017, there were 719 follow- up reports from 34 countries. 2002/657/EC: Commission Decision of 12 August 2002 implementing Council Directive 96/23/EC concerning the performance of analytical methods and the interpretation of results. keywords: amitraz; european; fipronil cache: haf-10015.pdf plain text: haf-10015.txt item: #12 of 201 id: haf-10016 author: Minoli, Lucia; Scanziani, Eugenio title: Identification and Preliminary Validation in Mouse Models of Circulating Biomarkers of Pancreatic Cancer date: 2018-06-12 words: 542 flesch: 35 summary: CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Lucia Minoli lucia.minoli@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Identification and preliminary validation in mouse models of circulating biomarkers of pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer–associated stroma production. keywords: biomarkers; mouse; pdac cache: haf-10016.pdf plain text: haf-10016.txt item: #13 of 201 id: haf-10017 author: Polito, Umberto; Di Giancamillo, Mauro; Peretti, Giuseppe Michele; Andreis, Maria Elena; Modina, Silvia Clotilde; Boschetti, Federica; Di Giancamillo, Alessia title: Meniscal femoral and tibial surfaces characterization in the swine model. date: 2018-06-12 words: 715 flesch: 42 summary: Figure 1: Summarized results: femoral vs tibial meniscal surfaces. Swine meniscal samples were evaluated from morphological (Safranin-O, Sirius Red and collagen type I and II) (Di Giancamillo et al. 2014), biochemical (DNA and glycosaminoglycans, or GAGs, contents) and biomechanical (compression and traction tests) points of view at the level of femoral and tibial meniscal surfaces. keywords: italy; meniscus; milan; tibial cache: haf-10017.pdf plain text: haf-10017.txt item: #14 of 201 id: haf-10018 author: Catozzi, Carlotta; Cuscó Martí, Anna; Lecchi, Cristina; Zamarian, Valentina; Viñes Pujol, Joaquim; D'andreano, Sara; Martucciello, Alessandra; Cappelli, Giovanna; Grassi, Carlo; Marianelli, Cinzia; D'Angelo, Luisa; De Carlo, Esterina; Vecchio, Domenico; Sanchez Bonastre, Armand; Francino, Olga; Caciliani, Fabrizio title: Effect of inactivated cultures of Lactobacillus rhamnosus on subclinical mastitis quarter milk microbiota date: 2018-06-12 words: 955 flesch: 33 summary: SM_L_T0: subclinical quarters treated with Lactobacillus rhamnosus (pre-treatment) SM_L_T0: subclinical quarters treated with Lactobacillus rhamnosus (post-treatment) keywords: lactobacillus; mastitis; microbiota; milk; quarters; rhamnosus; treatment cache: haf-10018.pdf plain text: haf-10018.txt item: #15 of 201 id: haf-10020 author: Sala, Giulia; Boccardo, Antonio; Coppoletta, Eleonora; Belloli, Angelo; Pravettoni, Davide title: Long-term effect of neonatal calf diarrhoea on productive and reproductive performance: preliminary data date: 2018-06-12 words: 751 flesch: 59 summary: During lactation, we analyzed: milk production in a 305-day lactation, average fat percentage, average protein percentage, average somatic cell count and interval from birth to first calving. This paper analyses the long-term effects of Neonatal Calf Diarrhoea (NCD) on the first milk production. keywords: days; lactation; ncd cache: haf-10020.pdf plain text: haf-10020.txt item: #16 of 201 id: haf-10021 author: Barros, Rodrigo Garcia; Lodde, Valentina; Dieci, Cecilia; Fraciosi, Federica; Luciano, Alberto Maria title: Study on the effects of zinc supplementation during in vitro embryo production technologies in cattle date: 2018-06-12 words: 572 flesch: 40 summary: Zinc supplementation during 24 hours of oocytes in vitro growth significantly improved the proportion of oocytes reaching the metaphase-II stage of meiosis after subsequent standard in vitro maturation (IVM; 41.53±5.51 vs 57.79±4.32; P<0.05 oneway- ANOVA). In conclusion, zinc supplementation can greatly improve the exploitation of the ovarian reserve since it increases the meiotic competence of growing oocytes, which are usually discarded in standard IVP settings. keywords: embryo; oocytes; zinc cache: haf-10021.pdf plain text: haf-10021.txt item: #17 of 201 id: haf-10022 author: Manfredi, Martina; De Zani, Donatella; Zani, Davide Danilo title: Planar Lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel lymph node mapping in dogs with mast cell tumor: a pilot study. date: 2018-06-12 words: 743 flesch: 56 summary: Incorporation of sentinel lymph node mapping in dogs with mast cell tumours: 20 consecutive procedures. Sentinel lymph node detection in canine oncological patients. keywords: lymph; node; sln cache: haf-10022.pdf plain text: haf-10022.txt item: #18 of 201 id: haf-10023 author: Chiapparini, Sara; Vizzarri, Francesco; Palazzo, Marisa; Rossi, Raffaella; Casamassima, Donato; Corino, Carlo title: Dietary integration with natural extract in rabbit: effects on growth performances and meat quality. date: 2018-06-12 words: 627 flesch: 56 summary: Overall, these results highlight that dietary supplementation with natural extract mixture, containing polyphenols from plants and seaweeds enhance growth performances, carcass weight, improving LL muscle nutritional parameter. Dietary integration with natural extract improve (P<0.05) growth performances: Live weight (LW), Average daily gain (ADG), Feed intake (FI) and Feed conversion (FC) in T1 group (Table 1). keywords: extract; growth; rabbit cache: haf-10023.pdf plain text: haf-10023.txt item: #19 of 201 id: haf-10025 author: Curone, Giulio; Gazzonis, Alessia; Zanzani, Sergio; Ponzoni, Davide; Vigo, Daniele; Manfredi, Maria Teresa; Riva, Federica; Moroni, Paolo; Vitali, Francesca; Faustini, Massimo title: Blood baseline values in female alpine and nera di verzasca goats reared in italy. date: 2018-06-12 words: 748 flesch: 56 summary: *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001. Alpine Verzasca Age effect, slope Subject effect Variable Mean SD Mean SD Alpine Verzasca P<0.05 RBC (M/µl) 12.95† 1.85 14.37 1.35 -0.080 -0.320*** HGB (g/L) 86.60† 13.10 96.60 9.70 -0.400 -2.500*** PCV (%) 0.25† 0.03 0.27 0.03 0.001 -0.005*** MCV (fl) 19.72† 1.96 19.08 1.76 0.173** 0.129** MCH (pg) 6.70 0.53 6.74 0.46 0.044** -0.026* MCHC (g/dl) 34.20† 3.19 35.51 3.09 -0.062 -0.359*** RDW (%) 32.76† 4.80 34.91 4.27 -0.357** -0.757*** WBC (106/L) 8.60† 3.15 5.95 2.25 -0.365*** -0.491*** NEU (106/L) 3.26† 2.07 1.80 1.11 -0.020 -0.061* LYMPH (106/L) 4.59 2.24 3.66 1.73 -0.327*** -0.399*** MONO (106/L) 0.47 0.44 0.28 0.19 -0.031** -0.012** EOS (106/L) 0.24 0.22 0.17 0.17 0.014* -0.021*** BAS (106/L) 0.08 0.06 0.05 0.04 -0.001 -0.001 NEU (fraction) 0.37 0.15 0.30 0.12 0.015*** 0.016*** LYMPH (fraction) 0.53 0.17 0.61 0.13 -0.019*** -0.017*** MONO (fraction) 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.04 -0.003 0.002 EOS (fraction) 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.003*** -0.002 BAS (fraction) 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.001 0.005* N/L 0.96 1.63 0.57 0.38 0.053** 0.051*** http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en Factors affecting the haematological parameters in different goat breeds from Italy. keywords: alpine; breeds; verzasca cache: haf-10025.pdf plain text: haf-10025.txt item: #20 of 201 id: haf-10026 author: Pigoli, Claudio; Sironi, Giuseppe; Caniatti, Mario title: Feline Visceral Mycobacteriosis date: 2018-06-12 words: 559 flesch: 55 summary: Thirteen cases out of 29 were identified: 2 as Mycobacterium spp, 7 as M. bovis and 4 as M. avium. Since the most recent cases were sustained exclusively by M. avium, while older cases were caused by M. bovis, a switching in the most diffused species or a different source of infection might occurred in the last years (Pesciaroli et al., 2014). keywords: cases; feline cache: haf-10026.pdf plain text: haf-10026.txt item: #21 of 201 id: haf-10027 author: Meazzi, Sara; Ferriani, Riccardo; Paltrinieri, Saverio; Giordano, Alessia title: Preliminary data about Paraoxonase-1 (PON-1) as a maker for Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) date: 2018-06-12 words: 696 flesch: 57 summary: Results showed significantly lower PON-1 activity in FIP cats (mean ± SD: 29.1 ± 16.3 U/mL; median: 24.4; IQR: 16.6- 38.3), compared with healthy cats (90.1 ± 24.1 U/mL; median: 86.0; IQR: 76.7-105.7; P<0.001) and with “non-FIP” cats (55.9 ± 28.3 U/mL; median: 51.9; IQR: 35.7-68.8, P<0.001). The aim of this study was to measure paraoxonase-1 in healthy cats and cats with clinical signs consistent with FIP (both wet or dry form), in order to evaluate the utility of this parameter in the diagnosis of FIP. keywords: cats; feline; fip cache: haf-10027.pdf plain text: haf-10027.txt item: #22 of 201 id: haf-10032 author: Gorla, Erica; Bertolini, Francesca; Strillacci, Maria G.; Cozzi, Maria C.; Roman-Ponce, Sergio I.; Ruiz, Felipe J.; Vega, Vicente V.; Dematawewa, C. M.B.; Kugonza, Donald; Elbeltagy, Ahmed; Schmid, Carl J.; Lamont, Susan J.; Bagnato, Alessandro; Rothschild, Max F. title: Genomic Diversity Using Copy Number Variations in Worldwide Chicken Populations date: 2018-06-12 words: 708 flesch: 54 summary: 2 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. 5 Department of Animal Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. keywords: animal; chicken; science; software cache: haf-10032.pdf plain text: haf-10032.txt item: #23 of 201 id: haf-10033 author: Mariani, Elena; Savoini, Giovanni; Niewold, Theo A. title: Non-invasive intestinal biomarkers: a new ELISA test for Pancreatitis Associated Protein detection in pig date: 2018-06-12 words: 605 flesch: 49 summary: Intestinal health biomarkers in vivo. Even if only preliminary, our results seem to show a fair relationship between fecal consistency, used as health indicator, and PAP fecal concentrations. keywords: health; pap cache: haf-10033.pdf plain text: haf-10033.txt item: #24 of 201 id: haf-10034 author: Andreis, Maria Elena; Di Giancamillo, Mauro; Carnevale, Liliana Maria; Polito, Umberto; Veronesi, Maria Cristina; Di Giancamillo, Alessia; Modina, Silvia Clotilde title: Stifle anatomic, tomographic and biomechanical features of growing dogs affected by quadriceps contracture. date: 2018-06-12 words: 613 flesch: 42 summary: Quadriceps contracture influenced stifle development. Vol. V, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 Quadriceps contracture induces severe alterations of stifle development in affected puppies. keywords: contracture; quadriceps; stifle cache: haf-10034.pdf plain text: haf-10034.txt item: #25 of 201 id: haf-10035 author: Meroni, Gabriele; Martino, Piera Anna title: Biofilm-forming ability and virulence factors of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius from canine pyoderma date: 2018-06-12 words: 668 flesch: 45 summary: Our data reveal the pathogenicity potential of SP strains from dogs, suggesting that they could be considered zoonotic potential agents and confirming other previous studies (Osland et al., 2010; Singh et al., 2013; Stefanetti et al., 2017). This condition could be also related to the ability to produce biofilm (Flemming and Wingender., 2010). keywords: biofilm; methicillin; strains cache: haf-10035.pdf plain text: haf-10035.txt item: #26 of 201 id: haf-10036 author: Bernardi, Serena; Martini, Valeria; Costanzo, Simone; Cozzi, Marzia; Comazzi, Stefano title: Immunophenotypical and cytomorphological examination of feline peripheral blood in patients with suspect leukemia date: 2018-06-12 words: 607 flesch: 46 summary: Cases were classified depending on antigen expression and hematologic features in five groups: chronic lymphocytic leukemias (CLL), acute lymphoblastic leukemias (ALL), acute myelogenous leukemias (AML), acute undifferentiated leukemias (AUL) and undetermined ALL vs lymphoma stage V. 26 cases (59%) were classified as acute leukemias whereas 11 cases (25%) were classified as chronic leukemias; 7 cases (16%) were classified as undetermined. These results confirmed that T cell leukemias are more frequent than B ones in the cat with a prevalent T-helper phenotypes as previously described (Helfand and Kisseberth, 2010). keywords: acute; cases; leukemias cache: haf-10036.pdf plain text: haf-10036.txt item: #27 of 201 id: haf-10039 author: Hejna, Monika; Moscatelli, Alessandra; Stroppa, Nadia; Piu, Salvatore Roberto; Baldi, Antonella; Rossi, Luciana title: Plant-based strategies to control the zinc output from swine production date: 2018-06-12 words: 788 flesch: 56 summary: Phytoremediation as an innovative approach to control heavy metals output from livestock. Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2018, 6th- 8th June, Milan, Italy HAF © 2013 keywords: animal; hms cache: haf-10039.pdf plain text: haf-10039.txt item: #28 of 201 id: haf-10040 author: Trovatelli, Marco; Bernardini, Andrea; Pieri, Valentina; Acocella, Fabio; Brizzola, Stefano; Zani, Davide Danilo title: Sheep brain atlas creation. Diffusion tensor imaging and Scanning electron microscope in sheep brain analysis date: 2018-06-12 words: 647 flesch: 54 summary: Once the DTI imaging were acquired the animals were euthanased, sheep brain was collected and samples of white matter tracts obtained with disposable biopsy punches of 1.5-2 mm of diameter. Corticospinal tract (Figure 1) was identified as major white matter tract in sheep brain and useful as target area for the research aims. keywords: animal; brain; imaging; sheep cache: haf-10040.pdf plain text: haf-10040.txt item: #29 of 201 id: haf-10041 author: Giorgi, Silvia; Comi, Marcello; Ghiringhelli, Matteo; Bontempo, Valentino title: The saponification of lauric acid with calcium soaps as an alternative to in-feed antibiotics in post-weaning piglets date: 2018-06-12 words: 702 flesch: 54 summary: Table 1: Feed efficiency of piglets fed basal diet without additive (CTR), with basal diet plus amoxycillin (T2) and basal diet plus laurate calcium soap (T2). The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of laurate calcium soap (C12-Ca soap) on growth performance and health status of post-weaning piglets. keywords: days; feed; piglets cache: haf-10041.pdf plain text: haf-10041.txt item: #30 of 201 id: haf-10042 author: Gioeni, Daniela; Di Cesare, Federica; D'urso, Elisa Silvia; Rabbogliatti, Vanessa; Ravasio, Giuliano title: Clinical effects of dexmedetomidine combined with methadone after intranasal and intramuscular administration in dogs date: 2018-06-12 words: 643 flesch: 59 summary: IN-group IM-group p-value Weight (kg) mean ± SD 23 ± 7 26 ± 10 p=0.1 Age (months) mean ± SD 21 ± 13 31 ± 16 p=0.07 Temperament (1-4) mean ± SD 2.6 ± 0.8 2.4 ± 0.9 p=0.3 Body temperature (°C) mean ± SD 39,1 ± 0.1 39 ± 0.1 p=0.1 Propofol dose (mg kg-1) mean ± SD 2.4 ± 1 1.7 ± 0.9 p=0.06 keywords: group; sedation cache: haf-10042.pdf plain text: haf-10042.txt item: #31 of 201 id: haf-10043 author: Perricone, Vera; Agazzi, Alessandro; Costa, Annamaria; Lazzari, Massimo; Savoini, Giovanni; Calcante, Aldo; Tangorra, Francesco Maria title: Chemical homogeneity and particle size distribution of dairy cow TMR along the feeding alley with different mixing times date: 2018-06-12 words: 677 flesch: 56 summary: Vol. V, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Following the concepts of precision feeding, the right components balance (Sova et al., 2014) and the correct particle size distribution (PSD, Khan et al., 2014) of total mixed ration (TMR) are essential for a complete homogeneity of the diet and are strongly influenced by adopted mixing time (MT, Humer et al., 2018, Schingoethe et al.,2017). A 100-Year Review: Total mixed ration feeding of dairy cows. keywords: dairy; feeding; science cache: haf-10043.pdf plain text: haf-10043.txt item: #32 of 201 id: haf-10045 author: Villa, Luca; Gazzonis, Alessia Libera; Mazzola, Silvia; Zanzani, Sergio Aurelio; Perlotti, Chiara; Sironi, Giuseppe; Manfredi, Maria Teresa title: Investigating on Besnoitia besnoiti (Apicomplexa, Sarcocystidae) in naturally infected dairy cattle by an integrated approach. date: 2018-06-12 words: 753 flesch: 42 summary: A review on bovine besnoitiosis: a disease with economic impact in herd health management, caused by Besnoitia besnoiti. Vol. V, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Bovine besnoitiosis, caused by Besnoitia besnoiti, is a (re)emerging disease in Europe (Cortes et al.,2014), including Italy (Gazzonis et al.,2014;2017). keywords: besnoiti; besnoitiosis; italy cache: haf-10045.pdf plain text: haf-10045.txt item: #33 of 201 id: haf-10046 author: D'Urso, Elisa Silvia; Zani, Davide Danilo; Dacerno, Massimo; Gioeni, Daniela; Rabbogliatti, Vanessa; Ravasio, Giuliano title: Locoregional anaesthesia for perioperative pain management in rabbits undergoing Total Ear Canal Ablation and Lateral Bulla Osteotomy (TECALBO): case series. date: 2018-06-12 words: 542 flesch: 44 summary: Mandibular and auriculopalpebral nerve blocks were performed as described. Proceedings of Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists, AVA meeting Barcelona, Spain, 14-16 October, 68. Figure 1: Neurostimulator connected to an insulated needle which is used to perform neurostimulated TECALBO blocks in rabbits. keywords: tecalbo cache: haf-10046.pdf plain text: haf-10046.txt item: #34 of 201 id: haf-10047 author: Savarese, Alice; Locatelli, Chiara; Borromeo, Vitaliano; Berrini, Anna; Galizzi, Alberto; Crudo, Martina; Brambilla, Paola Giuseppina title: Preliminary evaluation of an ELISA kit for the detection of Aldosterone concentration in dog’s urine date: 2018-06-12 words: 543 flesch: 47 summary: Concentrations of urine aldosterone are reported in Table 1. Journal of Veterinary Cardiology 9, 1 - 7. Table 1: Concentrations of urine aldosterone measured in four dogs. keywords: aldosterone; elisa; urine cache: haf-10047.pdf plain text: haf-10047.txt item: #35 of 201 id: haf-10048 author: Rabbogliatti, Vanessa; Di Giancamillo, Mauro; De Zani, Donatella; Gioeni, Daniela; Di Cesare, Federica; D'urso, Elisa Silvia; Ravasio, Giuliano; zani, Davide Danilo title: Helical Hydro-Computed Tomography in the diagnosis of pyloric stenosis in two foals date: 2018-06-12 words: 613 flesch: 53 summary: Ante-mortem diagnosis of pyloric stenosis in horses is challenging because aspecific clinical signs. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Vanesssa Rabbogliatti Vanessa.rabbogliatti@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Helical Hydro-Computed Tomography in the diagnosis of pyloric stenosis in two foals. keywords: pyloric; stenosis cache: haf-10048.pdf plain text: haf-10048.txt item: #36 of 201 id: haf-10049 author: Vitali, Francesca; Kariuki, Edward; Njoroge, Michael; Kaitho, Titus; Curone, Giulio; Mijele, Dominic; Ravasio, Giuliano title: Physiological response to chemical immobilization: a case study of etorphine-azaperone in free-ranging plains zebra (Equus quagga) in Kenya date: 2018-06-12 words: 718 flesch: 49 summary: Etorphine-azaperone combination Keywords Zebra, chemical immobilization, Blood gas analysis, Etorphine, Physiology. Higher exertion levels during the chasing were significantly correlated to worse immobilization scores (p=0.008) and hyperthermia occurrence (p=0.0012) and non-significantly to severe acidosis. keywords: immobilization; seconds cache: haf-10049.pdf plain text: haf-10049.txt item: #37 of 201 id: haf-10051 author: Omodei Zorini, Fabio; Savoini, Giovanni; Finocchiaro, Raffaella; Cassandro, Martino; Invernizzi, Guido title: Feed efficiency of Italian Holstein dairy heifers in the genomic era – preliminary results date: 2018-06-12 words: 759 flesch: 62 summary: Moreover, the trial will be performed again on the same batch after the first parturition of the animals, so as to investigate the relationship between feed efficiency during the growth phases (use of feed energy for growth and maintenance) and the productive phases (use of feed energy for milk production). The aim of the trial was to create a dataset useful to build up genetic indexes based on feed efficiency. keywords: feed; intake; rfi cache: haf-10051.pdf plain text: haf-10051.txt item: #38 of 201 id: haf-10052 author: Stucchi, Luca; Valli, Corrado; Ferrucci, Francesco title: Effect of post-exercise increase in creatine-kinase activity on performance parameters in Standardbred racehorses. date: 2018-06-12 words: 615 flesch: 50 summary: Results confirm that horses with elevated post-exercise CK activity, probably due to muscle damage, have worse performance compared to controls. An age-matched and sex-matched control group (group B) of 10 horses with no alteration potentially influencing performance and normal post-exercise CK activity was selected. keywords: activity; group; performance cache: haf-10052.pdf plain text: haf-10052.txt item: #39 of 201 id: haf-10057 author: Aidos, Lucia; Vasconi, Mauro; Lanfranchi, Marco; Di Giancamillo, Alessia title: Effect of different stocking densities on growth, muscle development and fatty acid profile of Acipenser baerii larvae date: 2018-06-12 words: 671 flesch: 54 summary: CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Alessia Di Giancamillo alessia.digiancamillo@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Effect of different stocking densities on growth, muscle development and fatty acid profile of Acipenser baerii larvae. Effects of different rearing temperatures on muscle development and stress response in the early larval stages of Acipenser baerii. keywords: development; fatty; larvae cache: haf-10057.pdf plain text: haf-10057.txt item: #40 of 201 id: haf-10062 author: Di Cesare, Federica; Cagnardi, Petra; Ravasio, Giuliano; Capasso, Michele; Magnone, William; Villa, Roberto title: Pharmacokinetics of ketamine and norketamine following intramuscular administration combined with dexmedetomidine in tigers (Panthera tigris) date: 2018-06-12 words: 753 flesch: 48 summary: Nine animals were assigned to standard protocol group (KET 2 mg/kg and dexmedetomidine 10 µg/kg) and ten animals to non-standard protocol group (tigers administered with different doses of KET, 2 – 2.5 mg/kg, and dexmedetomidine 10 – 30 µg/kg or with any other necessary drug, such as titrate-to-effect propofol and isoflurane, respectively for anaesthesia induction and maintenance). Aims of the study is the assessment of the pharmacokinetics of KET and its main metabolite, norketamine (NORKET), after its intramuscular administration in combination with dexmedetomidine in tigers. keywords: dexmedetomidine; tigers cache: haf-10062.pdf plain text: haf-10062.txt item: #41 of 201 id: haf-10063 author: Marescotti, Maria Elena; Caputo, Vincenzina; Demartini, Eugenio; Gaviglio, Anna title: Effect of hunting awareness on wild game meat purchase behavior date: 2018-06-12 words: 589 flesch: 53 summary: Among all the determinants that can influence the behavior of consumers of hunted wild game meat (i.e. animal welfare, sustainability, ecological food choice, product safety, nutritional quality), the consumers’ awareness of hunting activity and their perceptions of wild game meat assume a crucial role (Ljung et al., 2012; Byrd et al., 2017). Vol. V, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Although wild game meat constitutes a sustainable and healthy alternative to conventional meat and hunting contributes to the control of game populations (Gaviglio et al., 2017; Ramanzin et al., 2010; Hoffman & Wilkund, 2006), international studies on consumer attitudes towards this type of meat are still limited and no previous research has been focused on the Italian population. keywords: game; hunting; meat cache: haf-10063.pdf plain text: haf-10063.txt item: #42 of 201 id: haf-10065 author: Facchini, Elena; Rizzi, Rita Maria; Chessa, Stefania title: DNA extraction from wings as a suitable approach for queen bees genotyping date: 2018-06-12 words: 597 flesch: 53 summary: Along with previous reports of DNA extraction from several matrices, this study aims to contribute in developing suitable methodologies for genotyping honey bees queens using DNA extracted from wing cuttings (Chaline et al., 2004; Gregory and Rinderer, 2004; Gould et al., 2011). Keywords Honey bee, DNA Extraction, Queen, Wings Clipping, Sequencing CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Elena Facchini elena.facchini@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf DNA extraction from wings as a suitable approach for queen bees genotyping. keywords: dna; honey; wings cache: haf-10065.pdf plain text: haf-10065.txt item: #43 of 201 id: haf-10265 author: Bhide, Mangesh title: Borrelia and host interaction: a tangled tale date: 2018-06-12 words: 354 flesch: 38 summary: Paracellular penetration of pathogen needs multiple protein:protein interactions between pathogen surface proteins and endothelial cells. It is proposed that Borrelia may employ multiple strategies to evade host's complement system by binding complement regulatory proteins like factor H, vitronectin, C4BP and CD59. keywords: borrelia; pathogen cache: haf-10265.pdf plain text: haf-10265.txt item: #44 of 201 id: haf-10266 author: Bonnet, Muriel title: Proteomics of adipose tissue: from the molecular drivers of adipogenesis to the molecular phenotyping of ruminants date: 2018-06-12 words: 964 flesch: 47 summary: We have recently integrated and mined -omics data to computationally predict the large-scale “secretome” of adipose tissues and muscles in ruminants (Bonnet et al., 2016). Cellular and molecular large-scale features of fetal adipose tissue: is bovine perirenal adipose tissue brown? keywords: adipose; bonnet; proteomics cache: haf-10266.pdf plain text: haf-10266.txt item: #45 of 201 id: haf-10267 author: Fazeli, Alireza title: When dads become pregnant, would they do a better job? date: 2018-06-12 words: 312 flesch: 40 summary: Vol. V, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Invited paper The thrifty phenotype hypothesis states that reduced foetal growth is strongly associated with the occurrence of a number of chronic non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and hypertension in later life and during adulthood. Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2018, 6th- 8th June, Milan, Italy HAF © 2013 keywords: hypothesis; periconception cache: haf-10267.pdf plain text: haf-10267.txt item: #46 of 201 id: haf-10268 author: Munoza, Ana title: Exercise in water in the horse: physiological adaptations and potential benefits for training and rehabilitation date: 2018-06-12 words: 748 flesch: 47 summary: Six horses were subjected to sessions of 40 minutes in water treadmill, with speeds of 5.5-6 km/h and with water at different depths: baseline (BL, exercise in water treadmill without water), and with the water at level of the metacarpophalangeal/metatarsophalangeal (MCPJ; MTPJ), tarsal (TJ) and stifle joints (SJ). However, this type of exercise leads to profound changes in locomotion, mainly in stride length and frequency and in muscle power, with the highest values with water depths at the tarsal and stifle joints. keywords: exercise; water cache: haf-10268.pdf plain text: haf-10268.txt item: #47 of 201 id: haf-10794 author: Safiyu, Kamorudeen Kolawole; Sogunle, Olajide Mark; Egbeyale, Lawrence Tokunbo; Shittu, Taofik Akinyemi title: An exploratory study on the effects of rearing system and plumage colour on performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of local turkeys date: 2019-12-05 words: 5525 flesch: 63 summary: Based on this background, the objective of this research aimed to investigate the effects of rearing system and plumage colour on local turkey performances, carcass components and meat quality. Table 5 shows the effects of rearing system and plumage colour on physical properties of breast and thigh meats from local turkey. keywords: animal; colour; indoor; outdoor; plumage; rearing; science; system; turkeys; weight; white cache: haf-10794.pdf plain text: haf-10794.txt item: #48 of 201 id: haf-3250 author: Bernardi, Cristian; Tirloni, Erica; Cattaneo, Patrizia title: A case study: shelf-life of smoked herring fillets by volatile compounds analysis. date: 2014-02-10 words: 1879 flesch: 57 summary: I, No. 1 ISSN: 2283-3927 4 Results and discussion WPS rate was amply above the 3.5 % NaCl-WPS; in product B, salt content was more variable; aW was similar in both, but more variable in product A, allowing to consider safe both products. Acetic acid was found more in product B. Dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethyl sulphide were more represented in A than in B. As a whole, product B showed an aromatic profile more complex and rich in qualitatively superior compounds, while product A showed a very little articulate profile. keywords: compounds; content; food; product; science cache: haf-3250.pdf plain text: haf-3250.txt item: #49 of 201 id: haf-3379 author: Simitzis, Panagiotis E; Papadomichelakis, George; Tsiplakou, Eleni; Theodorou, George; Zervas, George; Politis, Ioannis title: Effect of dietary protein source on piglet meat quality characteristics date: 2014-03-17 words: 5254 flesch: 62 summary: However, dietary protein source appeared not to significantly influence lipid oxidation (MDA formation) values in raw pork L. dorsi muscle after storage at 4°C for up to 9 days (Table 3). Effect of dietary protein source (whey proteins or soybean meal) on piglets’ meat quality characteristics (LS means ± s.e.m.) keywords: animal; dietary; effect; meal; meat; protein; quality; science; source; whey cache: haf-3379.pdf plain text: haf-3379.txt item: #50 of 201 id: haf-3382 author: Theodorou, Georgios; Papadomichelakis, George; Tsiplakou, Eleni; Chronopoulou, Roubini; Zervas, George; Politis, Ioannis title: Association of dietary soy with expression of various pro-inflammatory genes in porcine phagocytes date: 2014-01-28 words: 2984 flesch: 58 summary: On the other hand, expression of the iNOS gene results in the production of NO (free radical), which is one of the main pro-inflammatory compounds secreted by activated phagocytes (De Mejia & u-PA SB WP SB WP 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 Monocytes Neutrophils R e la ti v e e x p re ss io n u-PAR SB WP SB WP 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 Monocytes Neutrophils *** *** R e la ti v e e x p re ss io n PAI-1 SB WP SB WP 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 Monocytes Neutrophils R e la ti v e e x p re ss io n PAI-2 SB WP SB WP 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 Monocytes Neutrophils R e la ti v e e x p re ss io n G. Theodorou et al. - Int. Our group has also shown that SPP down- regulated the expression of various pro-inflammatory genes in ovine phagocytes induced by fatty acids in vitro (Politis et al. 2012). keywords: animal; expression; phagocytes cache: haf-3382.pdf plain text: haf-3382.txt item: #51 of 201 id: haf-4212 author: Rossi, Luciana; Eleonora, Fusi; Boglioni, Morena; Giromini, Carlotta; Rebucci, Raffaella; Baldi, Antonella title: Effect of Zinc Oxide and Zinc Chloride on Human and Swine Intestinal Epithelial Cell Lines date: 2014-07-18 words: 3064 flesch: 54 summary: The importance of intestinal cell models of human and pig origins in in vitro platforms for preclinical research is well recognised (Langerholc et al., 2011). Since intestinal cell model a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a L.Rossi et al. - Int. keywords: animal; cell; viability; zinc; zncl2; zno cache: haf-4212.pdf plain text: haf-4212.txt item: #52 of 201 id: haf-4311 author: Spada, Eva; Proverbio, Daniela; Martino, Piera Anna; Baggiani, Luciana; Perego, Roberta; Roggero, Nora title: Ammonia concentration and bacterial evaluation of feline whole blood and packed red blood cell units stored for transfusion date: 2014-10-23 words: 3820 flesch: 62 summary: Blood units were stored in a controlled-temperature blood bank refrigerator (EMOTECA 250, FIOCCHETTI & CO, Luzzara, Italy), where the temperature was consistently maintained at 4±2°C. We hypothesized that AC in feline WB and PRBC units collected and stored for transfusion purpose would increase much more than in canine blood units due to the open blood collection system used in cats. keywords: ammonia; blood; feline; prbc; storage; study; units cache: haf-4311.pdf plain text: haf-4311.txt item: #53 of 201 id: haf-4313 author: Tirloni, Erica; Stella, Simone; Bernardi, Cristian title: Concerns about the microbiological quality of traditional raw milk cheeses: a worldwide issue date: 2014-11-11 words: 3431 flesch: 58 summary: (EC) n.1441/2007 for raw milk cheeses (4 Log CFU/g), while in all the other cheeses all the samples were below this limit, with constant low values (<2 Log CFU/g) in Formaggella samples. Raw milk cheeses are generally known as potentially contaminated by Staphylococci and this characteristic is also well recognized by the EU Regulation which settled a higher tolerance level if compared to fresh cheeses produced with E. Tirloni et al. - Int. keywords: cfu; cheeses; filata; food; log; milk; pasta; samples cache: haf-4313.pdf plain text: haf-4313.txt item: #54 of 201 id: haf-4319 author: Omotoso, Adekunbi Bridget; Omojola, Babatunde Andrew title: Screening of fluoroquinolone residues in imported and locally produced broiler chicken meat in Ibadan, Nigeria date: 2014-12-04 words: 4098 flesch: 61 summary: ce th e exposure of consumers to fluoroquinolon e residues. If th e residue of a chemical exceeds th e MRL in meat, it is considered unsafe (Petrovic et al., 2006). keywords: animal; chicken; ciprofloxacin; fluoroquinolones; food; frozen; health; meat; nigeria; norfloxacin; residues; samples; science cache: haf-4319.pdf plain text: haf-4319.txt item: #55 of 201 id: haf-4321 author: Perego, Roberta; Proverbio, Daniela; Spada, Eva; Bagnagatti De Giorgi, Giada; Valena, Emanuela; Ferro, Elisabetta title: Prevalence of Dermatophytes in The Haircoat of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) in The Stelvio National Park, Italy. date: 2014-10-21 words: 3495 flesch: 67 summary: The project, however, has also provided a mechanism for investigation of the health status of th e deer and their relationship with the ecos ystem and with man. This forestry station of about 24,600 hectares , the largest of the park, is of sufficient size to provide all th e needs of th e red deer (neighbourh oods for summering, wintering areas and breeding areas). keywords: animals; deer; dermatophytes; et al; fungi; hair; national; population; red; samples; study cache: haf-4321.pdf plain text: haf-4321.txt item: #56 of 201 id: haf-4452 author: Simitzis, Panagiotis E; Karastamatis, Stavros; Koutsouli, Panagiota; Bizelis, Iosif A; Politis, Ioannis title: Effect of yoghurt serum powder dietary supplementation on growth performance and antioxidant status in fattening lambs date: 2015-01-09 words: 3418 flesch: 64 summary: Wh ey derived from cheese industry is traditionally used in th e diets of pigs, but in areas unsuitable for pig breeding, this by-product could be used in dairy farms as liquid or after water evaporation (Church, 1991). It can be concluded that yoghurt serum powder appears as a promising alternative of the cereals in the diets of fattening lambs, since no negative effects on growth performance and health status were observed. keywords: animal; dietary; feed; lambs; powder; serum; whey; yoghurt cache: haf-4452.pdf plain text: haf-4452.txt item: #57 of 201 id: haf-4649 author: Jiang, Xian-Ren; Luo, Fa-Hong; Wu, Shu-Geng; Zhang, Hai-Jun; Bontempo, Valentino; Qu, Ming-Ren; Yue, Hong-Yuan; Qi, Guang-Hai title: Effect of phytase supplementation on apparent phosphorus digestibility and phosphorus output in broiler chicks fed low-phosphorus diets date: 2015-04-26 words: 4621 flesch: 68 summary: total P diets compared to the CTR chicks fed 2.5P and3.0P, respectively, when th ese were expressed as g/kg DM digesta. The interes t in the supplem entation of ph ytas e in low P diets for monogastric animals has got great atten tion du e to environmen tal concerns and high cost of inorganic P. Man y previous studies demonstrated that phytase supplemen tation to low -P diets improved performance and P utilization of broiler chicks (Viveros et al., 2002; Rutherfurd et al., 2004; 2012; Jiang et al., 2013). keywords: chicks; diets; digesta; faeces; fed; ileal; phosphorus; phytase; total cache: haf-4649.pdf plain text: haf-4649.txt item: #58 of 201 id: haf-4739 author: Omotoso, Adekunbi Bridget; Omojola, Andrew Babatunde title: Fluoroquinolone residues in raw meat from open markets in Ibadan, Southwest, Nigeria date: 2015-07-11 words: 3648 flesch: 62 summary: Detection and control of fluoroquinolon e residues in meat is important due to mark et globalization and food safety issues. The presence of fluoroquinolone residues in meat has attracted extensive atten tion from national and international public health ag encies. keywords: animal; beef; chicken; ciprofloxacin; food; meat; norfloxacin; residues; samples cache: haf-4739.pdf plain text: haf-4739.txt item: #59 of 201 id: haf-4767 author: Makaen, Johnson; Tasi, Lydia title: Anthrax, fairly undetected in Papua New Guinea date: 2015-07-16 words: 3439 flesch: 57 summary: The organism is vegetative in host tissues but sporulates when exposed to the environment (Parker et al. 2002; Spencer 2003; Schaechter et al. 2006; Stoltenow et al. 2010). The organism is vegetative in host tissues but sporulates when exposed to the environment (Parker et al. 2002; Spencer 2003; Schaechter et al. 2006; Stoltenow et al. 2010). keywords: animals; anthracis; anthrax; et al; guinea; infection; new; schaechter et; spencer; stoltenow et; turnbull cache: haf-4767.pdf plain text: haf-4767.txt item: #60 of 201 id: haf-4785 author: Zhang, Rui; Wilson, Vincent L.; Hou, Aixin; Meng, Ge title: Source of lead pollution, its influence on public health and the countermeasures date: 2015-07-11 words: 6340 flesch: 35 summary: Lead exposure in children: prevention, detection, and management. Lead exposure in children: prevention, detection, and management. keywords: 2013; animal; blood; children; environmental; et al; exposure; food; gasoline; haf; health; int; issn; lead; levels; poisoning; pollution; safety; science; toxicity; vol; zhang cache: haf-4785.pdf plain text: haf-4785.txt item: #61 of 201 id: haf-4978 author: Bolis, Barbara; Peric, Tanja; Veronesi, Maria Cristina; Faustini, Massimo; Rota, Alessandro; Montillo, Marta title: Hair dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) concentrations in newborn dogs date: 2015-07-11 words: 404 flesch: 57 summary: DHEA levels were 45.5±13.61 pg/mg in small size puppies and 47.8±15.61 pg/mg in medium-large size puppies, with no significant differences. Non invasive, long time-frame retrospective hormonal levels analysis were performed in the hair of humans and animals, but not in newborn puppies, and DHEA never investigated in puppies. keywords: dhea; puppies cache: haf-4978.pdf plain text: haf-4978.txt item: #62 of 201 id: haf-4979 author: Cafiso, Alessandra title: Molecular evidence for a bacterium of the family Midichloriaceae (order Rickettsiales) in skin and organs of the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss affected by red mark syndrome date: 2015-07-11 words: 399 flesch: 57 summary: The 16S rDNA of a bacterium belonging to the family Midichloriaceae (Rickettsiales) was found in association with RMS skin lesions. Our work shows, for the first time, that the midichloriacea is present not only in skin lesions but also in organs of affected fish. keywords: fish; skin cache: haf-4979.pdf plain text: haf-4979.txt item: #63 of 201 id: haf-4982 author: Ceriotti, Serena; Lange Consiglio, Anna; Casati, Lavinia; Cremonesi, Fausto; Zucca, Enrica; Sibilia, Valeria; Ferrucci, Francesco title: Effects of Ghrelin on metabolic activity of equine cartilage affected with inflammatory degeneration: preliminary isolation, characterization of equine cultured chondrocytes and assessment of LPS-induced inflammatory stress. date: 2015-07-24 words: 389 flesch: 33 summary: This project aims to assess the possible protective effects of Ghrelin on equine cultured chondrocytes exposed to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), as a model of osteoarthritic joint. P3 chondrocytes were treated with increasing LPS concentrations (1-100 ng/ml) and the effects of LPS were assessed with the apoptosis-induction test and fluorescence microscopy after 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 h of treatment. keywords: chondrocytes; lps cache: haf-4982.pdf plain text: haf-4982.txt item: #64 of 201 id: haf-4989 author: Tecilla, Marco; Origgi, Francesco; Grilli, Guido; Forlani, Annalisa; Roccabianca, Paola title: TeHV3 outbreak characterization in captive Testudo spp. date: 2015-07-16 words: 442 flesch: 54 summary: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 35(1): 25-33; A. J. Johnson, A. P. Pessier, J. F. Wellehan, R. Brown, E. R. Jacobson. ( 1-2): 52-54; E. R. Jacobson., K. H. Berry, F. C. Origgi , J. F. Jr Wellehan, A. L. Childress, J. Braun, M. Schrenzel, J. Ye, B. Rideout. 2012. keywords: tehv3 cache: haf-4989.pdf plain text: haf-4989.txt item: #65 of 201 id: haf-4994 author: Maghin, Federica; Rossi, Raffaella; Ratti, Sabrina; Pastorelli, Grazia; Corino, Carlo title: Antioxidant supplementation in pig nutrition: effects on shelf life of longissimus dorsi muscle and consumers’ preferences for smoked cured ham. date: 2015-07-14 words: 387 flesch: 45 summary: The seasoning losses of smoked cured ham tended to be lower (P=0.06) in AOX group than CT. Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2015, 15th- 17th July, Milan, Italy riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf 1 l CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Federica Maghin, federica.maghin@unimi.it ABSTRACT The effects of dietary supplementation with antioxidant mixture in medium-heavy swine on oxidative status, nutritional and sensory characteristics of longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle and smoked cured ham were evaluated. keywords: ham cache: haf-4994.pdf plain text: haf-4994.txt item: #66 of 201 id: haf-4995 author: Filipe, Joel Fernando Soares; Bronzo, Valerio; Curone, Giulio; Pollera, Claudia; Turin, Lauretta; Dall'Ara, Paola; Luzzago, Camilla; Vigo, Daniele; Casula, Antonio; Roccabianca, Paola; Moroni, Paolo; Riva, Federica title: PTX3 is up-regulated in epithelial mammary cells during S. aureus intramammary infection in goat date: 2015-07-20 words: 561 flesch: 50 summary: During S. aureus infection PTX3 was up-regulated by epithelial cells. PTX3 was up-regulated in epithelial mammary cells and in milk cells after S. aureus infection, demonstrating that it represents a first line of immune defense in goat udder. keywords: cells; ptx3 cache: haf-4995.pdf plain text: haf-4995.txt item: #67 of 201 id: haf-4999 author: Cozzi, Marzia; Martini, Valeria; Marconato, Laura; Aresu, Luca; Comazzi, Stefano title: Evaluation of CD45 protein expression and transcript in canine small clear cell/T zone lymphoma. date: 2015-07-20 words: 413 flesch: 48 summary: Aim of this work was to evaluate CD45 protein and mRNA expression in small clear cell lymphoma. FC was performed on lymph node fine needle aspiration and CD45 median fluorescence intensity (MFI) was then evaluated on small clear cells and normal residual T-lymphocytes. keywords: cd45 cache: haf-4999.pdf plain text: haf-4999.txt item: #68 of 201 id: haf-5001 author: Labella, Giuseppe Federico; Chiesa, Luca Maria; Pasquale, Elisa; Panseri, Sara; Arioli, Francesco title: Determination of thyreostats in bovine urine and thyroid glands by HPLC-MSMS date: 2015-07-17 words: 409 flesch: 54 summary: J. Wauters, J. Vanden Bussche, B. Le Bizec, J. A. L. Kiebooms, G. Dervilly-Pinel, S. Prevost, B.Wozniak, S. S. Sterk, D.Grønningen, D. G. Kennedy, S. Russell, P. Delahaut, L. Vanhaecke. Commission Decision 2002/657/EC of 12 August 2002 implementing Council Directive 96/23/EC concerning the performance of analytical methods and the interpretation of results. keywords: milan; thyreostats cache: haf-5001.pdf plain text: haf-5001.txt item: #69 of 201 id: haf-5002 author: De Maglie, Marcella; Cella, Claudia; Bianchessi, Silvia; Argentiere, Simona; Scanziani, Eugenio; Recordati, Camilla title: Dose and batch-dependent hepatobiliary toxicity of 10 nm silver nanoparticles date: 2015-07-20 words: 444 flesch: -5 summary: The toxicity was dose-dependent and interestingly, the toxic effects were more severe in mice treated with batches A and B that contained smaller AgNPs. Our preliminary studies performed to compare the effect of the AgNPs size (10-40-100 nm) on toxicity, demonstrated that the smallest AgNPs determine the most severe toxicological effects. keywords: agnps; toxicity cache: haf-5002.pdf plain text: haf-5002.txt item: #70 of 201 id: haf-5004 author: Stranieri, Angelica; Lauzi, Stefania; Giudice, Chiara; Cannito, Valentina; Giordano, Alessia; Paltrinieri, Saverio title: Comparison between the diagnostic accuracy of clinico-pathological and molecular tests for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) date: 2015-07-14 words: 341 flesch: 24 summary: Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2015, 15th- 17th July, Milan, Italy riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf 1 l CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Angelica Stranieri angelica.stranieri@unimi.it ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) of conventional clinic-pathological tests with that of molecular tests such as routine PCR and PCR followed by the sequencing of the Spike (S) gene. In vivo examination consisted of CBC, serum protein electrophoresis, AGP measurement, cytological and biochemical examination and the evaluation of the ΔTNC on effusions, and of molecular tests such the screening PCR (target: 3’UTR region) and the PCR directed towards the S gene followed by the amplification products sequencing in order to detect the aminoacidic substitution recently considered diagnostic for FIP1. keywords: sens; spec cache: haf-5004.pdf plain text: haf-5004.txt item: #71 of 201 id: haf-5005 author: Longo, Maurizio; Ravasio, Giuliano; De Zani, Donatella; Di Giancamillo, Mauro; Rabbogliatti, Vanessa; Zani, Davide Danilo title: A case of adrenal tumour in a lion (Panthera leo): tomographic and ultrasonographic findings. date: 2015-07-14 words: 367 flesch: 33 summary: Adrenal adenomas can be occasionally observed in asymptomatic patients during tomographic studies while estrogen-secreting tumors, known as feminizing adrenal tumors (FATs), have been rarely reported. Liver and left adrenal lesions FNABs were performed. keywords: lion; tumors cache: haf-5005.pdf plain text: haf-5005.txt item: #72 of 201 id: haf-5009 author: Farina, Greta; Agazzi, Alessandro; Caputo, Jessica Michela; Campagnoli, Anna; Ferroni, Mariella; Loor, J.Juan; Savoini, Giovanni; Invernizzi, Guido title: Hepatic and subcutaneous adipose lipid metabolism genes modulation by dietary fish oil and stearate in transition goats date: 2015-07-16 words: 354 flesch: 45 summary: Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2015, 15th- 17th July, Milan, Italy riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf l CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Greta Farina, greta.farina@unimi.it ABSTRACT The objective of the experiment was to understand the interaction between saturated or unsaturated fatty acids and genes involved in lipid metabolism in liver and subcutaneous adipose tissue. Liver and subcutaneous adipose tissue samples were harvested at day -7, 7 and 21 relative to kidding and immediately snap frozen in liquid nitrogen. keywords: adipose cache: haf-5009.pdf plain text: haf-5009.txt item: #73 of 201 id: haf-5030 author: Alloggio, Isabella; Piras, Cristian; Greco, Viviana; soggiu, alessio; Losio, Nadia; Bonizzi, Luigi; Urbani, Andrea; Roncada, Paola title: Food Safety: Secretome of Lactococcus lactis and Listeria monocytogenes in competition. date: 2015-07-24 words: 414 flesch: 40 summary: Food processing represents one of the major steps that could be linked to LM growth. Inhibition of LM growth through competition of Lactococcus lactis (LAC) could represent a solution to this problem. keywords: competition; italy cache: haf-5030.pdf plain text: haf-5030.txt item: #74 of 201 id: haf-5039 author: Albonico, Marco; Spicer, Leon; Cortinovis, Cristina; Schutz, Luis Fernando; Caloni, Francesca title: In Vitro toxicological effects of Fumonisin B1 and Beauvericin on bovine granulosa cells date: 2015-07-20 words: 382 flesch: 49 summary: Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 113:314-320; In vitro toxicological effects of Fumonisin B1 and Beauvericin on bovine granulosa cells M. Albonico 1 , L.J. Spicer 2 , C. Cortinovis 1 , L. F. Schutz 2 , F. Caloni. 1 1 Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety (VESPA), Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan, Italy 2 Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2015, 15th- 17th July, Milan, Italy riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf l CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Marco Albonico, marco.albonico@unimi.it ABSTRACT Fumonisin B1 (FB1) and beauvericin (BEA) are fusariotoxins found to co-exist in food and feed commodities. keywords: bea cache: haf-5039.pdf plain text: haf-5039.txt item: #75 of 201 id: haf-5059 author: Talenti, Andrea; Nicolazzi, Ezequiel Luis; Nicoloso, Letizia; Frattini, Stefano; Coizet, Beatrice; Chessa, Stefania; Pagnacco, Giulio; Pilla, Fabio; Ajmone Marsan, Paolo; Crepaldi, Paola title: Development of a 200 single nucleotide polymorphism panel for parentage assessment for 14 Italian goat breeds date: 2015-07-14 words: 497 flesch: 44 summary: REFERENCES Heaton, M. P., G. P. Harhay, G. L. Bennett, R. T. Stone, W. M. Grosse, E. Casas, J. W. Keele, T. P. L. Smith, C. G. Chitko - McKown, and W. W. Laegreid. 2002. The recent availability of a medium density SNPs chip in goat offers the possibility to develop a useful and less expensive tool for parentage assessment. keywords: panel cache: haf-5059.pdf plain text: haf-5059.txt item: #76 of 201 id: haf-5084 author: BEAUJEAN, Nathalie title: Histone post-translational modifications in preimplantation mouse embryos and their role in nuclear architecture date: 2015-07-14 words: 629 flesch: 23 summary: One of her objectives is to better understand embryonic genome reprogramming after either fertilization or nuclear transfer (the cloning procedure). Remarkably, it however seems that transcripts generated by pericentromeric satellite repeats are involved in this event and that interference with this phenomenon results in developmental arrest (Probst et al., 2010; Santenard et al., 2010; Fulka & Langerova 2014). keywords: reprogramming cache: haf-5084.pdf plain text: haf-5084.txt item: #77 of 201 id: haf-5085 author: VAN VUUREN, Ad title: Confirmation Bias: Examples from Dairy Cow Nutrition and Their Impact on Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine date: 2015-07-14 words: 657 flesch: 40 summary: Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2015, 15th- 17th July, Milan, Italy riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf 1 l AD VAN VUUREN Ad van Vuuren obtained his degree in Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University in 1974 and his PhD in Animal and Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University in 1993. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 36(2):186-195; Roudebush, P., T. A. Allen, C. E. Dodd, and B. J. Novotny. keywords: nutrition; veterinary cache: haf-5085.pdf plain text: haf-5085.txt item: #78 of 201 id: haf-5087 author: McKAY, Stephanie title: To What Extent Does DNA Methylation Affect Phenotypic Variation in Cattle? date: 2015-07-14 words: 510 flesch: 34 summary: MBD-Seq is a technique that involves the sample enrichment of methylated genomic regions followed by their next-generation sequencing. Genomic regions of interest derived from this analysis were then aligned to previously identified QTL and GWAS regions using Animal QTL database. keywords: methylation; regions cache: haf-5087.pdf plain text: haf-5087.txt item: #79 of 201 id: haf-5104 author: Perrini, Claudia; Lange-Consiglio, Anna; Cremonesi, Fausto; tasquier, riccardo; deregibus, maria chiara; camussi, giovanni; pascucci, luisa; marini, maria giovanna; coradetti, bruna; bizzaro, davide title: Microvesicles secreted from equine amniotic cells and their potential role in in vitro cell tendon repair date: 2015-07-16 words: 423 flesch: 41 summary: Lastly, the ability of MVs to counteract an in vitro inflammatory process induced by lipolysaccaride on tendon cells was studied evaluating the expression of pro-inflammatory genes like metallopeptidase (MPP) 1 and 13, and prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 (COX2). Then, the in vitro incorporation of MVs into equine tendon cells was studied by a dose-response curve. keywords: cells; mvs; tendon cache: haf-5104.pdf plain text: haf-5104.txt item: #80 of 201 id: haf-5105 author: Prinsen, Raphaëlle Teresa Matilde Maria; Strillacci, Maria Giuseppina; Schlangen, Karin; Schiavini, Fausta; Frigo, Erika; Cozzi, Maria Cristina; Dolezal, Marlies Alexandra; Gredler, Birgit; Bagnato, Alessandro title: A high-resolution CNV map across Brown Swiss cattle populations. date: 2015-07-24 words: 427 flesch: 48 summary: This study therefore expands the catalogue of CNVRs in the bovine genome, delivers an international based high-resolution map of CNVRs specific to Brown Swiss dairy cattle and will lastly provide information for GEBV estimation with CNVs. The first aim was to create a high resolution map of CNV regions (CNVRs) in Brown Swiss cattle and the characterization of identified CNVs as markers for quantitative and population genetic studies. keywords: cattle; cnvrs cache: haf-5105.pdf plain text: haf-5105.txt item: #81 of 201 id: haf-5106 author: Ghiringhelli, Matteo; Acocella, Fabio; Bontempo, Valentino title: Branched-Chain Amino Acids date: 2015-07-16 words: 243 flesch: 31 summary: During parenteral nutrition in humans, physician already associates in the PN-bags different formulations including amino acids, lipids and glucose solutions or essential amino acids solution alone or exclusively branched-chain amino acids (BCAA). In particular, our attention is directed to the role of certain amino acids in cachectic patients. keywords: acids; amino cache: haf-5106.pdf plain text: haf-5106.txt item: #82 of 201 id: haf-5114 author: Terzaghi, Laura; Luciano, Alberto Maria; Lodde, Valentina title: Progesterone Receptor Membrane Component 1 (PGRMC1) in cell division: its role in bovine granulosa cells mitosis date: 2015-07-17 words: 384 flesch: 35 summary: First, we performed immunofluorescence studies on in vitro cultured bGC collected from antral follicles, which showed that PGRMC1 localizes to the spindle apparatus in mitotic cells. Thus our studies set the stage for analysis aimed to further characterize PGRMC1’s mechanism of action in mitotic cells. keywords: cells; pgrmc1 cache: haf-5114.pdf plain text: haf-5114.txt item: #83 of 201 id: haf-5115 author: Quintavalle Pastorino, Giovanni; Preziosi, Richard; Albertini, Mariangela title: Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups date: 2015-07-17 words: 431 flesch: 40 summary: This will be accompanied by a survey of animal personality for welfare, husbandry, breeding programs and reintroduction purposes. The pilot project is currently based on direct monitoring of animal behaviour, use of time lapse cameras and animal personality questionnaires completed by experienced keepers. keywords: animal; interactions cache: haf-5115.pdf plain text: haf-5115.txt item: #84 of 201 id: haf-5126 author: Marques, Andreia Tomás; Ceciliani, Fabrizio; Redegalli, Miriam; Carisetti, Michela; Meani, Sarah; Vinco, Leonardo James; Bronzo, Valerio; Lecchi, Cristina title: Serum miRNA disregulation during transport-related stress in turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) date: 2015-07-20 words: 410 flesch: 41 summary: Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2015, 15th- 17th July, Milan, Italy riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf l CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Cristina Lecchi, cristina.lecchi@unimi.it ABSTRACT MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small 21-25 nucleotide regulatory non-coding RNAs that modulate gene expression in eukaryotic organisms. miRNAs are complementary to the 3′-untranslated regions of mRNA and act as post- transcriptional regulators of gene expression, exhibiting remarkable stability in extracellular fluids such as blood. keywords: mir-22; stress; transportation cache: haf-5126.pdf plain text: haf-5126.txt item: #85 of 201 id: haf-5127 author: Zenobi, Alessandro; Gandolfi, Fulvio; Brevini, Tiziana Anna Luisa title: Role of oxygen tension and genetic background during the epigenetic conversion of mouse fibroblasts into insulin secreting cells date: 2015-07-20 words: 385 flesch: 47 summary: Cell differentiation was directed toward the endocrine pancreatic lineage with a sequential combination of Activin A, Retinoic Acid, B27 supplement, ITS and bFGF. Our results show that C57 BL/6J cells are able to differentiate into insulin secreting cells in both oxygen tensions with a higher amount of insulin release in low oxygen conditions. keywords: cells; oxygen cache: haf-5127.pdf plain text: haf-5127.txt item: #86 of 201 id: haf-5128 author: Pilotto, Adriano; Invernizzi, Guido; Baldi, Antonella; Savoini, Giovanni title: Plasma α-tocopherol content and its relationship with milk somatic cells count in Italian commercial herds. date: 2015-07-20 words: 415 flesch: 62 summary: Plasma α-tocopherol content and its relationship with milk somatic cells count in Italian commercial herds. However, plasma α-tocopherol content at dry off could be usefully correlated with somatic cell count in fresh cows. keywords: content cache: haf-5128.pdf plain text: haf-5128.txt item: #87 of 201 id: haf-5132 author: magro, giada; piccinini, renata; brevini, tiziana; pasello, luca title: An ex vivo model of the bovine mammary gland to study the pathogenesis of bacterial infections. date: 2015-07-24 words: 421 flesch: 47 summary: These data suggest that such ex vivo model could be a valid approach to study the mammary immune response to bacteria. Samples were analyzed for cell proliferation and apoptosis by immunofluorescence, in order to validate the model. keywords: response; vivo cache: haf-5132.pdf plain text: haf-5132.txt item: #88 of 201 id: haf-6440 author: Baldi, Antonella; Giromini, Carlotta; Gottardo, Davide; Rebucci, Raffaella; Pinotti, Luciano; Fusi, Eleonora title: Relative bioefficacy of RRR-α-tocopherol versus all-rac-α-tocopherol in in vitro models date: 2015-11-05 words: 889 flesch: 54 summary: ISSN: 2283-3927 Pre-treatments with 100μM of RRR-α-T and 100μM all-rac-α-T were able to significantly (P<0.05) counteract the effect induced by 750μM of H2O2 in BME-UV1. Results and Discussion In BME-UV1, the proliferative effect induced by RRR-α-T form was higher at the lowest concentrations (1nM and 0.01uM) than all-rac α-T (about 30%, which is consistent with the current bioactivity conversion factors). keywords: rac cache: haf-6440.pdf plain text: haf-6440.txt item: #89 of 201 id: haf-6447 author: Labella, Giuseppe Federico; Chiesa, Luca Maria; Panseri, Sara; Arioli, Francesco title: Are saponins and sapogenins precursors of prednisolone? Preliminary results date: 2015-11-04 words: 1028 flesch: 55 summary: Dusi G., Arioli F., Ghidelli V., Casati A., Hathaway T., Pompa G., Bertocchi L. (2012) Investigations on the origin of prednisolone in cow urine “Euro Residue VII – Conference on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Food” - 14-16 May 2012, Egmond aan Zee,The Netherlands. In the last noughties, the frequency of detection of prednisolone in cow urine, especially in samples collected at the slaughterhouse, raised in Italy. keywords: prednisolone; solanine; urine cache: haf-6447.pdf plain text: haf-6447.txt item: #90 of 201 id: haf-6452 author: Rossi, Luciana; Reggi, Serena; Zaninelli, Mauro; Saccone, Francesca; Gottardo, Davide; Crotti, Antonio; Lombardi, Angela; Dell'Orto, Vittorio; Rebucci, Raffaella; Baldi, Antonella title: Evaluation of antigens stability of tobacco seeds as edible vaccine against VTEC strains date: 2015-11-04 words: 1559 flesch: 55 summary: The dietary administration of transgenic tobacco seeds promotes a significant increase in the number of mucosal IgA-producing cells of the tunica propria in both small and large intestine in mice (Rossi et al., 2013). A protective effect of oral administration of transgenic tobacco seeds was also observed against verocytotoxic Escherichia coli infection in piglets (Rossi et al., 2014). keywords: f18; seeds; tobacco; vt2e cache: haf-6452.pdf plain text: haf-6452.txt item: #91 of 201 id: haf-6468 author: Zaninelli, Mauro; Rossi, Luciana; Costa, Annamaria; Tangorra, Francesco Maria; Agazzi, Alesandro; Savoini, Giovanni title: Use of Electrical Coductivity Sensors to monitor Health Status and Quality of Milk in Dairy Goats date: 2015-11-04 words: 1503 flesch: 59 summary: However, our research group has shown that a specificity of 65% and a sensitivity of 81% could be reached by a univariate model based on evaluations of time series of gland milk EC (Zaninelli et al. 2015). As expected, not healthy glands showed higher mean value of SCC and of milk EC (Diaz et al. 2011, Romero et al. 2012, Zaninelli et al. 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2015c). keywords: milk; model cache: haf-6468.pdf plain text: haf-6468.txt item: #92 of 201 id: haf-6525 author: Spetsarias, Stavros; Koutsouli, Panagiota; Theodorou, Georgios; Theodoropoulos, Georgios; Bizelis, Iosif title: Allelic polymorphism of Ovar-DRB1 exon2 gene and parasite resistance in two dairy sheep breeds date: 2016-02-08 words: 10153 flesch: 68 summary: Associations of MHC DRB1 alleles with resistance to n ematodes have been found not only in sheep (Outteridge et al., 1996; Associations betw een Ovar-DRB1 genotypes and FEC values of parasites were investigated using non parametric tests (Mann-Whitney or Kruskal-Wallis depending from the number of levels for th e specific alleles ) considering th e fixed effect of genotype for th e specific i allele with three lev els (firs t level: animals without the specific allele, second level: animals with on e copy of th e i allele and third lev el: animals with two copies of the i allele). keywords: alleles; animals; arta; breed; drb1; et al; food; genotypes; int; kalarrytiko; levels; mhc; new; number; ovar; parasites; pepsinogen; plasma; resistance; science; sheep; stear; th e; values cache: haf-6525.pdf plain text: haf-6525.txt item: #93 of 201 id: haf-6796 author: Manno, Claudia; Blake, Damer; Ghisleni, Gabriele; Tecilla, Marco; Macaluso, Giusi; Puleio, Roberto; Monteverde, Vinenzo; Loira, Guido R. title: Cardiac filariosis in migratory Mute swans (Cygnus olor) in Sicily date: 2016-09-05 words: 3165 flesch: 56 summary: To the authors knowledge the available literature pointed out the presence of S. eurycerca only in Nederland and United Kingdom, among all the Europeans countries (Cohen et al., 1991; de Bruijn et al., 2009). The first reports of these parasites are recorded in boreal to warm-temperate areas such as North America and Japan (Cohen et al., 1991; MacNeil, 1975; Woo et al., 2010). keywords: birds; eurycerca; figure; sarconema; swans cache: haf-6796.pdf plain text: haf-6796.txt item: #94 of 201 id: haf-7018 author: Labella, Giuseppe Federico title: Comparison between Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE) with clean up in-line and Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe (QuEChERS) extraction in honey. date: 2016-06-06 words: 410 flesch: 55 summary: The criteria for a good repeatability (CV <20%) were satisfied for the 92 % of the compounds with QuEChERS extraction and for the 74% of the compounds with ASE extraction. Furthermore, QuECheERS method allowed a significant reduction of the time needed for sample preparation than ASE extraction. References Chauzat, M.P., Martel, A.C., Cougoule, N., Porta, P., Lachaize, J., Zeggane, S., Aubert, M., Carpentier, P., Faucon, J.P; 2011. keywords: extraction; honey cache: haf-7018.pdf plain text: haf-7018.txt item: #95 of 201 id: haf-7019 author: Terzaghi, Laura; Luciano, Alberto Maria; Modina, Silvia Clotilde; Lodde, Valentina title: Progesterone Receptor Membrane Component-1 (PGRMC1) nucleolar localization in bovine granulosa cells and its putative interaction with nucleolin. date: 2016-06-06 words: 347 flesch: 24 summary: Additionally, siRNA mediated gene knockdown experiments showed that when PGRMC1 expression is silenced, nucleolin localization shifts from the nucleolus to the nucleoplasm, suggesting a PGRMC1/nucleolin functional association. Moreover, in bGC PGRMC1 co-localizes with nucleolin, a well-known nucleolar marker exerting important functions within the nucleolus. keywords: bovine; pgrmc1 cache: haf-7019.pdf plain text: haf-7019.txt item: #96 of 201 id: haf-7020 author: Nobile, Maria; Panseri, Sara; Arioli, Francesco; Chiesa, Luca M title: Detection of seven β2-agonists in teeth by LC-MS/MS: preliminary results. date: 2016-06-06 words: 487 flesch: 54 summary: For this reason, we suggested bovine teeth as a new unconventional matrix of accumulation in a more long-time window, for the detection of cimaterol, clenbuterol, isoxsuprine, mabuterol, ractopamine, salbutamol and terbutaline. ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Bovine, Teeth, β2-agonists, Residues, HPLC-MS/MS. keywords: teeth; union cache: haf-7020.pdf plain text: haf-7020.txt item: #97 of 201 id: haf-7023 author: Cafiso, Alessandra; Serra, Valentina; Plantard, Olivier; Bazzocchi, Chiara title: Molecular screening for Midichloria bacteria in hard and soft ticks (Acari: Ixodida). date: 2016-06-06 words: 540 flesch: 48 summary: This result prompts us to hypothesize different roles of Midichloria bacteria in different tick species. The performed screening highlights different prevalence levels in different tick species including one, Ixodes aulacodi, where the bacteria is present in all examined individuals, like in I. ricinus. keywords: midichloria; tick cache: haf-7023.pdf plain text: haf-7023.txt item: #98 of 201 id: haf-7024 author: Ceriotti, Serena; Bullone, Michela; Vargas, Amandine; Leclère, Mathilde; Ferrucci, Francesco; Lavoie, Jean-Pierre title: Pulmonary vascular remodeling occurs in severe equine asthma. date: 2016-06-06 words: 484 flesch: 43 summary: In this study, we investigated the presence of pulmonary artery remodeling in severe equine asthma, as, to the best of our knowledge, this has not been yet studied. In conclusion, pulmonary artery remodeling due to smooth muscle hypertrophy and intimal muscolarization may be induced by persistence of hypoxic vasoconstriction stimulus and release of cytokines from inflammatory cells infiltrating the annexed airways (Barbera, 2003). keywords: asthma; pulmonary; remodeling cache: haf-7024.pdf plain text: haf-7024.txt item: #99 of 201 id: haf-7025 author: Ghiringhelli, Matteo; Pennarossa, Georgia; Di Giancamillo, Alessia; Brizzola, Stefano; Brevini, Tiziana A.L.; Brevini, Cinzia; Acocella, Fabio; Bontempo, Valentino title: Derivation of canine hepatocyte in vitro models to study Branched-Chain Amino Acid effects on liver functions. date: 2016-06-06 words: 448 flesch: 48 summary: To this purpose we have selected and set up three different in vitro models: hepatic dog cells and canine hepatocellular carcinoma cells plated in 2D monolayer and hepatic dog cells cultured onto 3D scaffolds, obtained from decellularized rabbit liver. Furthermore, they have been demonstrated to inhibit proliferation of liver cancer cells in vitro, and to be essential for lymphocyte proliferation. keywords: canine; cells; liver cache: haf-7025.pdf plain text: haf-7025.txt item: #100 of 201 id: haf-7027 author: Tecilla, Marco; Roccabianca, Paola; Pilo, Paola; Origgi, Francesco Carlo title: Characterization of the immune response against Testudinid herpesvirus 3. date: 2016-06-06 words: 431 flesch: 46 summary: TeHV3’s proteins expression was assessed by F.A.C.S using T. graeca seropositive sera. The aim of this work is to partially characterize the immunological response of T. graeca against TeHV3. keywords: tehv3 cache: haf-7027.pdf plain text: haf-7027.txt item: #101 of 201 id: haf-7029 author: Lombardi, Angela; Rakhola, Jeremy; Bandi, Srinivasa; Rossi, Luciana; Janoff, Edward Neil; Baldi, Antonella title: Avidities of human monoclonal antibodies derived from an adult immunized with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine date: 2016-06-06 words: 560 flesch: 46 summary: Edible vaccines in particular are of interest as they are able to stimulate the mucosal immune system to produce secretory IgA (S-IgA) at mucosal surfaces and, potentially IgG in the blood. We will evaluate the avidity of antibodies after immunization with edible vaccines against VTEC strain in piglets about which little in known, but as demonstrated in Granoff et al. keywords: antibodies; avidity; vaccines cache: haf-7029.pdf plain text: haf-7029.txt item: #102 of 201 id: haf-7033 author: Manzoni, Elena Franca Maria title: 5-azacytidine reactivates pluripotency gene expression, affects TET2 and histone transcription and modifies chromatin organization and morphology of mammal skin fibroblasts date: 2016-06-06 words: 531 flesch: 41 summary: In this work we exposed skin fibroblasts to the demethylating agent 5-azacytidine (5-aza-CR), which is a well-known DNA methyltransferase inhibitor, and has been recently shown to increase cell plasticity and facilitate phenotype changes in different cell types (Pennarossa, 2013; Brevini, 2014; Pennarossa, 2014; Brevini, 2016). Although many aspects controlling its demethylating action have been widely investigated, the mechanisms through which 5-aza-CR acts on cell plasticity are still poorly understood. keywords: brevini; cells; pennarossa cache: haf-7033.pdf plain text: haf-7033.txt item: #103 of 201 id: haf-7039 author: Filipe, Joel Fernando Soares; Trevisi, Erminio; Massara, Matteo; Minuti, Andrea; Bani, Paolo; Amadori, Massimo; Riva, Federica title: Rumen fluid, a new diagnostic matrix in dairy cattle farms? date: 2016-06-06 words: 465 flesch: 49 summary: Diverse leukocyte populations at low concentrations and IFN-γ were revealed in some samples of rumen fluids, with a clear inhibition of the response observed in the animals fed the maize-supplemented diet, compared to a normal and a soy-supplemented diet. Our data points into the idea that dairy farms could be ranked according to a risk score using the inflammatory markers in rumen fluids, in addition to the traditional analysis. keywords: diseases; forestomachs; rumen cache: haf-7039.pdf plain text: haf-7039.txt item: #104 of 201 id: haf-7042 author: Zenobi, Alessandro; Gandolfi, Fulvio; Brevini, Tiziana Angela Luisa title: High glucose concentrations are required for endocrine pancreatic differentiation of mammalian adult fibroblasts. date: 2016-06-06 words: 452 flesch: 35 summary: Our results show that mammalian cells are not able to differentiate into insulin secreting cells in a low glucose environment. These results suggest that high glucose levels are essential for the achievement of the endocrine pancreatic differentiation process in mammalian cells and appear to be crucial for functional efficiency and morphological organization. keywords: cells; glucose cache: haf-7042.pdf plain text: haf-7042.txt item: #105 of 201 id: haf-7044 author: Frattini, Stefano; Capra, Emanuele; Lazzari, Barbara; Coizet, Beatrice; Groppetti, Debora; Pecile, Alessandro; Riccaboni, Pietro; Arrighi, Silvana; Chessa, Stefania; Castiglioni, Bianca; Giordano, Alessia; Talenti, Andrea; Williams, John L; McKay, Stephanie D; Crepaldi, Paola; Stella, Alessandra; Pagnacco, Giulio title: The methylome of the hypothalamus of prepubertal and pubertal goats. date: 2016-06-06 words: 469 flesch: 42 summary: Recent studies provide proof that there is an epigenetic regulation of female puberty, and DNA methylation, the most studied epigenetic modification, plays a major role in it3. Epigenetic control of female puberty. keywords: methylation; milan; puberty cache: haf-7044.pdf plain text: haf-7044.txt item: #106 of 201 id: haf-7046 author: Perrini, Claudia title: Secretome of bovine amniotic and endometrial cells: application for in vitro embryo production. date: 2016-06-06 words: 407 flesch: 47 summary: Aim of this study was to understand the role of CM, MVs and supernatant (SN, obtained from CM deprived of MVs) secreted by bovine endometrial and amnion cells on embryo development. The blastocyst rate obtained culturing embryos with amniotic CM and MVs was not significantly different from the CTR (34.17±3.29%, 32.82±3.26% and 35.45±2.53% respectively). keywords: embryos; mvs cache: haf-7046.pdf plain text: haf-7046.txt item: #107 of 201 id: haf-7048 author: Talenti, Andrea; Bertolini, Francesca; Frattini, Stefano; Elbeltagy, Ahmed; Pagnacco, Giulio; Coizet, Beatrice; Aboul-Naga, Adel M.; Reecy, James M; Moaeen-ud-Din, Muhammad; Rothschild, Max F.; Crepaldi, Paola title: Initial genomic characterization of Italian, Egyptian and Pakistani goat breeds. date: 2016-06-06 words: 527 flesch: 47 summary: These processes, together with natural selection and regional drift, have shaped the phenotypic variability of goat breeds (Kim et al., 2015). The availability of improved genomic analysis tools for this species may provide useful information on the history of selection, adaptation and differentiation of goats from different areas of the world, that can be evaluated by the study of gene frequencies and length of the Runs of Homozigosity (contiguous length of homozygous genotypes, ROH; Purfield et al., 2012). keywords: breeds; goat; selection cache: haf-7048.pdf plain text: haf-7048.txt item: #108 of 201 id: haf-7049 author: Serra, Valentina; Cafiso, Alessandra; Bazzocchi, Chiara title: Molecular and serological evidences of Midichloria mitochondrii transmission to vertebrate hosts during the tick bite. date: 2016-06-06 words: 493 flesch: 43 summary: Two lines of evidence suggest a transmission of M. mitochondrii in mammalians during the tick bite: 1) detection of circulating DNA in blood samples of different animal species; 2) seropositivity toward a M. mitochondrii protein (FliD) in humans and dogs exposed to tick bite (Mariconti 2012; Bazzocchi 2013). Based on these results, FliD protein and other M. mitochondrii markers could thus be extremely useful to determine the risk of infection by I. ricinus pathogens in given areas, and for investigating the epidemiological association of a variety of pathological alterations with this tick. keywords: mitochondrii; tick cache: haf-7049.pdf plain text: haf-7049.txt item: #109 of 201 id: haf-7060 author: Marques, Andreia Tomás; Lecchi, Cristina; Nordio, Laura; Giudice, Chiara; Grilli, Guido; Ariño-Bassols, Helena; Ceciliani, Fabrizio title: Widespread extrahepatic expression of acute-phase proteins in chicken (Gallus gallus) tissues date: 2016-06-06 words: 437 flesch: 54 summary: SAA expression was particularly high in cecal tonsil, lung, spleen and meckel’s diverticulum, whereas OVT showed a high expression in lung, bursa of Fabricius, pancreas, brain and adipose tissue. APP gene expression was higher in liver compared with other tissues. keywords: expression; gallus; proteins cache: haf-7060.pdf plain text: haf-7060.txt item: #110 of 201 id: haf-7061 author: Bottagisio, Marta; Drago, Lorenzo; Romanò, Carlo Luca; Bonizzi, Luigi; Lovati, Arianna Barbara title: Evaluation of antibiotic and cell-based therapy in preventing S. epidermidis-induced nonunion in rats. date: 2016-06-06 words: 509 flesch: 43 summary: Our study suggests that the association of s-VANC and l-HYD is an effective treatment to prevent biofilm-induced nonunions. Differently, we cannot positively support cell therapies for this purpose due to the high risk related to the systemic cell injection, thus requiring further studies to be eventually proposed in clinics. keywords: italy; milan cache: haf-7061.pdf plain text: haf-7061.txt item: #111 of 201 id: haf-7062 author: De Maglie, Marcella title: Role of the mononuclear phagocyte system in the uptake and accumulation of nanoparticles designed for biomedical applications date: 2016-06-06 words: 418 flesch: 48 summary: Immunostaining for Iba-1 (pan macrophage marker) was applied to localize the NPs aggregates within MPS cells. Iron/silver deposits were mainly found in the cytoplasm of MPS cells (Iba1 immunostaining), indicating that most of injected particles were removed from blood circulation by phagocytic cells. keywords: iron; mps; nps cache: haf-7062.pdf plain text: haf-7062.txt item: #112 of 201 id: haf-7070 author: Bolis, Barbara; Peric, Tanja; Rota, Alessandro; Faustini, Massimo; Veronesi, Maria Cristina title: Cortisol fetal fluids concentrations and newborn outcome in term pregnancy small-sized purebred dogs. date: 2016-06-06 words: 423 flesch: 41 summary: In order to provide further information about canine perinatology, and because of the scarce knowledge about fetal fluids composition in dogs, the present study was aimed to assess the cortisol concentrations in fetal fluids collected from small-sized purebred newborn puppies born by elective cesarean section, at term of pregnancy (Meloni et al, 2014). Fetal fluids cortisol concentrations were also evaluated for correlation with maternal parity, litter-size, neonatal gender, birth weight and Apgar score (Veronesi et al, 2009). keywords: concentrations; cortisol cache: haf-7070.pdf plain text: haf-7070.txt item: #113 of 201 id: haf-7071 author: Ruggerone, Beatrice; Colombo, Graziano; Paltrinieri, Saverio title: Analytical aspects of protein carbonyl group in oxidized canine serum. date: 2016-06-06 words: 393 flesch: 43 summary: CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Beatrice Ruggerone beatrice.ruggerone@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Analytical aspects of protein carbonyl group in oxidized canine serum. A step-by-step protocol for assaying protein carbonylation in biological samples. keywords: protein; serum cache: haf-7071.pdf plain text: haf-7071.txt item: #114 of 201 id: haf-7072 author: Curone, Giulio title: Milk ketone bodies assessment in a local italian cow breed (Modenese) vs. Holstein and characterization of its physiological, reproductive and productive performances. date: 2016-06-06 words: 521 flesch: 44 summary: The objective of this study was to characterize some productive, reproductive and metabolic parameters (ketone bodies) in the Italian autochthonous cattle breed Modenese, comparing them with those of Holstein and their crossbred (F1=Modenese x Holstein; F2=Modenese x F1) breed in the same farm in order to understand if there is a different metabolic picture that can influence the reproductive performances. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Giulio Curone giulio.curone@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Milk ketone bodies assessment in a local italian cow breed (Modenese) vs. Holstein and characterization of its physiological, reproductive and productive performances. keywords: italy; milan; modenese cache: haf-7072.pdf plain text: haf-7072.txt item: #115 of 201 id: haf-7073 author: Maghin, Federica; Rossi, Raffaella; Ratti, Sabrina; Chiapparini, Sara; Corino, Carlo title: Dietary supplementation with algae and polyphenols in lactating sows: effects on sows and piglets' performance. date: 2016-06-06 words: 446 flesch: 55 summary: The inclusion in lactating sows of Algatan Mater® improves lactating sows and piglets’ performance. (a) Average daily gain of the piglets at 21 days of lactation and (b) total number of piglets born from control and Algatan Mater® group. keywords: days; sows cache: haf-7073.pdf plain text: haf-7073.txt item: #116 of 201 id: haf-7075 author: Stranieri, Angelica; Lauzi, Stefania; Giordano, Alessia; Paltrinieri, Saverio title: A reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the detection of feline Coronavirus date: 2016-06-06 words: 388 flesch: 55 summary: Accelerated reaction by loop-mediated isothermal amplification using loop primers. ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords LAMP, feline coronavirus, PCR CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Angelica Stranieri angelica.stranieri@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf A reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the detection of feline Coronavirus. keywords: lamp; loop cache: haf-7075.pdf plain text: haf-7075.txt item: #117 of 201 id: haf-7077 author: Longo, Maurizio title: Therapeutic chemonucleolysis of the lumbosacral disk in a cadaveric model: lateral vs sternal technique. date: 2016-06-06 words: 354 flesch: 44 summary: The dogs were randomly positioned either in lateral recumbency with the lumbo-sacral joint in neutral position (six dogs), or in sternal recumbency with the hind limbs extended cranially along the body and the lumbosacral joint flexed (six dogs). The percutaneous injection in lateral recumbency under fluoroscopic guidance resulted rapid and feasible in a cadaveric model. keywords: disk; dogs cache: haf-7077.pdf plain text: haf-7077.txt item: #118 of 201 id: haf-7078 author: Facchini, Elena title: Hygienic behaviour in honeybee: a comparison of two in-field assays for phenotypic characterization. date: 2016-06-06 words: 387 flesch: 46 summary: Honey bee hygienic behaviour. Beside environmental causes, e.g. the loss of forage as a consequence of agricultural intensification, another cause is the increasing relevance of pests and diseases affecting honeybee colonies. keywords: behaviour; honeybee cache: haf-7078.pdf plain text: haf-7078.txt item: #119 of 201 id: haf-7079 author: Nordio, Laura; Genova, Francesca; Serra, Valentina; Giudice, Chiara title: LTA4H expression in canine oral melanomas: methodological set up and preliminary results date: 2016-06-06 words: 405 flesch: 39 summary: Immunohistochemical investigation of LTA4H protein was performed with a mouse monoclonal antibody anti-LTA4H (clone 1E9). In the present study, we set up RT-PCR and immunohistochemical protocols to investigate the expression of LTA4H gene and protein, respectively, in formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) specimens of canine melanomas. keywords: canine; lta4h cache: haf-7079.pdf plain text: haf-7079.txt item: #120 of 201 id: haf-7082 author: Andreis, Maria Elena; Di Giancamillo, Mauro; Faustini, Massimo; Veronesi, Maria Cristina; Modina, Silvia Clotilde title: Dog craniometry: a cadaveric study date: 2016-06-06 words: 450 flesch: 46 summary: However, several dog breeds are still unclassified, and skull measurements, often analyzed in adult dogs, are rarely studied in dog puppies. The aim of this work is to clarify whether dog puppies can be classified as dolichocephalic, mesaticephalic and brachycephalic. keywords: dog; index cache: haf-7082.pdf plain text: haf-7082.txt item: #121 of 201 id: haf-7085 author: Marescotti, Maria Elena; Gaviglio, Anna; Demartini, Eugenio; Pirani, Alberto title: Development of a wild game meat supply chain: assessment of the food safety of large wild ungulates’ meat by interviews with hunters date: 2016-06-06 words: 439 flesch: 54 summary: ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Food safety, wild game meat, hunters, food supply chain, sustainable development, territorial marketing. Consequently, the customers’ demand is met by relevant amount of imported meat from other nearby markets. keywords: food; meat cache: haf-7085.pdf plain text: haf-7085.txt item: #122 of 201 id: haf-7086 author: Prinsen, Raphaëlle Teresa Matilde Maria; Strillacci, Maria Giuseppina; Schiavini, Fausta; Rossoni, Attilio; Gredler, Birgit; Dolezal, Marlies Alexandra; Bieber, Anna; Bagnato, Alessandro title: Genome-wide association studies using copy number variants in Brown Swiss Dairy cattle. date: 2016-06-06 words: 520 flesch: 58 summary: Switzerland Abstract Detecting Copy Number Variation (CNV) in cattle provides the opportunity to study their association with quantitative traits (Winchester et al., 2009; Zhang et al., 2009; Hou et al., 2011; Clop et al., 2012; de Almeida et al., 2016;). Copy number variation in the genomes of domestic animals. keywords: cnvrs; copy; number cache: haf-7086.pdf plain text: haf-7086.txt item: #123 of 201 id: haf-7088 author: Aidos, Lucia; Di Giancamillo, Alessia; Lanfranchi, Marco; Domeneghini, Cinzia title: Oxidative stress and lateral muscle development in Siberian Sturgeon (Acipenser baeri): preliminary observations. date: 2016-06-06 words: 484 flesch: 41 summary: The aim of this study is to monitor oxidative stress status and muscle development during embryonic and precocious larval phases in Siberian Sturgeon (Acipenser baeri), when subjected to different incubating temperatures (13°, 16° and 19°C). Siberian sturgeon eggs were subjected to different incubation temperatures. keywords: muscle; stress; sturgeon cache: haf-7088.pdf plain text: haf-7088.txt item: #124 of 201 id: haf-7089 author: Albonico, Marco; Cortinovis, Cristina; Caloni, Francesca title: In vitro toxicity of beauvericin alone and combined with fumonisin B1 or deoxynivalenol on Caco-2 cells date: 2016-06-06 words: 384 flesch: 50 summary: Bl exposure to BEA and FB1 alone, whereas a significant decrease (P<0.05) of TEER was observed after exposure to BEA in combination with FB1 for 1 h and 2 h. DON was found to decrease (P<0.05) TEER alone and combined with BEA after Bl application starting from the second hour of treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro toxic effects of BEA alone and combined with FB1 or DON on human intestinal Caco-2 cells cultured on semi-permeable inserts (Caloni et al., 2012). keywords: bea; fb1 cache: haf-7089.pdf plain text: haf-7089.txt item: #125 of 201 id: haf-7090 author: Mariani, Elena; Rizzi, Nicoletta; Cesari, Nicoletta; Maggi, Adriana; Savoini, Giovanni title: Nuclear factor E2-related factor 2’s activation in transgenic mice fed with high dosage of fish oil. date: 2016-06-06 words: 503 flesch: 52 summary: Recent advances in the use of fatty acids as supplements in pig diets: A review. Through ruminant nutrition to human health: role of fatty acids. keywords: acids; nrf2; response cache: haf-7090.pdf plain text: haf-7090.txt item: #126 of 201 id: haf-7091 author: Castrica, Marta; Balzaretti, Claudia; Bernardi, Cristian; Baldi, Antonella title: HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical control point) to guarantee safety in food recovery for social solidarity’s purposes date: 2016-06-06 words: 420 flesch: 55 summary: Based on the results of the analysis, the main critical control points (CCPs) were identified to guarantee the microbiological quality and safety of food recovery: (i) the best practices for managing the recovery of the different categories of food, (ii) the control of the correct storage temperatures and (iii) the volunteers required training on good hygiene procedures. The amount of food wasted each year in Italy is around 5.1 million tons, of which only 500.000 tons recovered (9% of food surplus). keywords: food; safety cache: haf-7091.pdf plain text: haf-7091.txt item: #127 of 201 id: haf-7092 author: Cozzi, Marzia; Martini, Valeria; Aresu, Luca; Mortarino, Michele; Comazzi, Stefano title: Loss of cd45 protein in canine small clear cell/t-zone lymphoma is due to absence of gene transcription. date: 2016-06-06 words: 476 flesch: 51 summary: The data here reported support further studies for clarifying possible genomic or epigenomic factors involving CD45 gene transcription and for better clarifying the possible role of CD45 in lymphomagenesis. Immunohistochemistry was performed with a different antibody respect with FC to confirm CD45 surface protein absence. keywords: cd45; lymphoma; tzl cache: haf-7092.pdf plain text: haf-7092.txt item: #128 of 201 id: haf-7094 author: Alloggio, Isabella; Soggiu, Alessio; Piras, Cristian; Greco, Viviana; Bonizzi, Luigi; Dorrestein, Pieter; Roncada, Paola title: Monitoring dynamics in bacterial competition by Imaging Mass Spectrometry date: 2016-06-06 words: 447 flesch: 33 summary: Different factors can contribute to the outcome of microbial competition, such as molecules exchanged between the competing organisms for the regulation of cell densities and the initial spatial configuration of the microbe–microbe interaction. Gonzalez, D.J., et al., Microbial competition between Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus monitored by imaging mass spectrometry. keywords: competition; mass cache: haf-7094.pdf plain text: haf-7094.txt item: #129 of 201 id: haf-7096 author: Dell'Orco, Francesca; Facchini, Elena; Cilia, Giovanni; Rizzi, Rita; Mortarino, Michele title: Candidate molecular markers of hygienic behavior in honeybees (Apis mellifera): an expression study. date: 2016-06-06 words: 515 flesch: 45 summary: ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Honeybee, hygienic Behavior, microRNA, gene expression, brain CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Francesca Dell’Orco francesca.dellorco@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Candidate molecular markers of hygienic behavior in honeybees (Apis mellifera): an expression study. The characterization of expression markers of HB could greatly assist in-field selection still incomplete. keywords: expression; honeybee cache: haf-7096.pdf plain text: haf-7096.txt item: #130 of 201 id: haf-7097 author: Ravasio, Giuliano; D'Urso, Elisa Silvia; Macchioni, Chiara; Stefanello, Damiano title: Proximal mandibular nerve block using electrolocation in 10 dogs undergoing mandibular surgery: a case series report. date: 2016-06-06 words: 437 flesch: 33 summary: Carprofen was administered subcutaneously as a sole postoperative treatment (3 mg/kg) and postoperative analgesia was assessed for at least 24 hours by a blind operator, accordingly to the Glasgow composite pain scale (Reid et al 2007); when it overcame a threshold of 5/24, intravenous rescue analgesia was administered (methadone, 0.2 mg/kg). ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Nerve block, electrolocation, mandibulectomy, analgesia CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Elisa Silvia D’Urso elisasilvia.durso@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Proximal mandibular nerve block using electrolocation in 10 dogs undergoing mandibular surgery: a case series report. keywords: analgesia; nerve cache: haf-7097.pdf plain text: haf-7097.txt item: #131 of 201 id: haf-7098 author: Di Cesare, Federica title: Cefazolin in dog: preliminary results for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters date: 2016-06-06 words: 411 flesch: 49 summary: Simple HPLC method for cefazolin determination in serum - validation and stability testing. Blood samples were taken at prefixed times from 0 to 8 h. Quantification of cefazolin concentrations was performed through a validate HPLC method with UV detection (Kunicki, 2012). keywords: animal; cefazolin cache: haf-7098.pdf plain text: haf-7098.txt item: #132 of 201 id: haf-7099 author: Savarese, Alice title: Iron status in dogs with mitral valve disease. date: 2016-06-06 words: 424 flesch: 57 summary: ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Dog, Mitral valve disease (MVD), chronic heart failure (CHF), serum iron deficiency (SID), TIBC CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Alice Savarese alice.savarese@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Iron status in dogs with mitral valve disease. Aims of the study were determine prevalence and characteristics of SID (SI < 90 µg/dL) in MVD dogs, analyze differences in SI among ACVIM classes, symptomatic and non-symptomatic patients, and study effects on survival. keywords: dogs; sid cache: haf-7099.pdf plain text: haf-7099.txt item: #133 of 201 id: haf-7102 author: Quintavalle Pastorino, Giovanni; Soares, Nuno; Mazzola, Silvia Michela; Preziosi, Richard; Albertini, Mariangela title: Personality assessment and feline–keepers relationship in lions (Panthera leo) date: 2016-06-06 words: 581 flesch: 41 summary: Testing and improving existent methodologies, as well as develop new ones, to outline animal personality is an important step towards welfare, health and longevity of captive animals (Phillips, 2007; Whitham and Wielebnowski, 2013). The limitation of this study is the sample size of the animal considered; in future research we hope to test other animals in order to validate the methodologies. keywords: animal; personality; science cache: haf-7102.pdf plain text: haf-7102.txt item: #134 of 201 id: haf-7107 author: Magro, Giada title: An ex vivo model of heifer udder to study the innate immune response of bacterial infections. date: 2016-06-06 words: 560 flesch: 53 summary: Stimulated expression of TNF-a and IL-8, but not of lingual antimicrobial peptide reflects the concentration of pathogens contacting bovine mammary epithelial cells. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide induces increased expression of toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and downstream TLR signaling molecules in bovine mammary epithelial cells. keywords: cells; expression; response cache: haf-7107.pdf plain text: haf-7107.txt item: #135 of 201 id: haf-7163 author: Farina, Greta; Agazzi, Alessandro; Invernizzi, Guido; Campagnoli, Anna; Loor, Juan Jose; Savoini, Giovanni title: Transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism and inflammation in transition dairy goats by fish oil and stearate date: 2016-06-06 words: 501 flesch: 51 summary: Dietary fatty acids on subcutaneous adipose tissue modulation in transition dairy goats. Abstract To better understand the interaction between saturated or unsaturated fatty acids and its effect on expression of genes involved in subcutaneous adipose tissue metabolism, 23 second parity alpine dairy goats were enrolled in the experiment and fed either a non fat-supplemented basal diet (C; n=8), the basal diet supplemented with stearic acid (ST; n=7) or the basal diet supplemented with fish oil (FO; n=8). keywords: dairy; goats cache: haf-7163.pdf plain text: haf-7163.txt item: #136 of 201 id: haf-7232 author: Sánchez, Armand title: Why Toll-Like Receptors genes are so polymorphic? date: 2016-06-06 words: 330 flesch: 40 summary: A. Sáncheza* aDepartment of Animal Genetics, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Molecular Genetics Veterinary Service. Viruses can only be detected through their nucleic acids; therefore, intracellular TLRs have an essential non-redundant role in host survival. keywords: tlrs; veterinary cache: haf-7232.pdf plain text: haf-7232.txt item: #137 of 201 id: haf-7233 author: Politis, Ioannis title: Lipid mobilization, immune function and the paradigm of vitamin E in transition cows. date: 2016-06-06 words: 417 flesch: 41 summary: Among the many physiological changes during the transition period, perhaps the most crucial, is an increase in the concentration of plasma non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA). ISSN: 2283-3927 l CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Ioannis Politis i.politis@aua.gr JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Lipid mobilization, immune function and the paradigm of vitamin E in transition cows. keywords: cells; transition cache: haf-7233.pdf plain text: haf-7233.txt item: #138 of 201 id: haf-7234 author: Luo, Yonglun title: Modeling and Manipulating Human Diseases with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Pig Models and Precision Gene Editing. date: 2016-06-06 words: 317 flesch: 50 summary: Thus, we have developed systems for rapid generation of gene targeting vectors (Luo et al., 2014), lentivirus- mediated gene targeting [Yujia Cai et al., Elife, in revision], and recombinant Cas9s to enhance HDR in mammalian cells. Abstract We have developed systems, e.g. C-Check, that can be used to rapidly select and quantify CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease activity and enrichment of genetically modified cells with desired mutations (Zhou et al., 2016). keywords: cells cache: haf-7234.pdf plain text: haf-7234.txt item: #139 of 201 id: haf-7235 author: Fair, Trudee title: Good Egg or Bad Egg: Developing markers of oocyte competence for Assisted Reproductive Interventions. date: 2016-06-06 words: 298 flesch: 37 summary: Technologies, such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, offer more sophisticated methods for oocyte and embryo selection, with the emphasis on the predictive value of non- invasive protocols which profile follicular fluid, follicle/ granulosa cells and cumulus cells, for assessment of oocyte quality. ISSN: 2283-3927 l CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Trudee Fair trudee.fair@ucd.ie JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Good Egg or Bad Egg: Developing markers of oocyte competence for Assisted Reproductive Interventions. keywords: oocyte cache: haf-7235.pdf plain text: haf-7235.txt item: #140 of 201 id: haf-7236 author: Anadón, Arturo title: Pharmacokinetics, efficacy prediction indexes and residue depletion of antibacterial drugs. date: 2016-06-06 words: 391 flesch: 28 summary: A. Anadóna aDepartment of Toxicology and Pharmacology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040-Madrid Abstract Pharmacokinetics behaviour of the antibacterial in food producing animals, provides information on the rates of absorption and elimination, half-life in plasma and tissue, elimination pathways and metabolism. Based on in vitro susceptibility data, and target animal PK data, an analysis for the PK/PD relationship may be used to support dose regimen selection and interpretation criteria for a clinical breakpoint. keywords: animal; mic cache: haf-7236.pdf plain text: haf-7236.txt item: #141 of 201 id: haf-7446 author: Sagar, Shyam P.; Mehta, Bhavbhuti M.; Wadhwani, K. N.; Darji, V. B.; Aparnathi, K. D. title: Evaluation of camel milk for selected processing related parameters and comparisons with cow and buffalo milk date: 2016-12-17 words: 4756 flesch: 68 summary: mail: bhavbhuti5@yahoo.co.in phone: + 919825807454 JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Article Evaluation of camel milk for selected processing related parameters and comparisons with cow and buffalo milk Shyam P. Sagar 1 , Bhavbhuti M. Mehta 2,* , K.N. Wadhwani 3 , V.B. Darji 4 , K.D. Aparnathi 2 1 Executive QA, GCMMF, Anand, Gujarat, India 2 Dairy Chemistry Department, SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand Agricultural University (AAU), Anand, Gujarat, India 3 Department of Livestock Production and Management, Veterinary College, AAU, Anand 4 Department of Agricultural Statistics, B.A. College of Agriculture, AAU, Anand ABSTRACT Cow and buffalo milk and camel milk were analyzed and compared for processing related parameters. keywords: buffalo; buffalo milk; camel; camel milk; coagulation; cow; dairy; heat; milk; stability cache: haf-7446.pdf plain text: haf-7446.txt item: #142 of 201 id: haf-7927 author: Adjou, Euloge; Dahouenon Ahoussi, Edwige; Dègnon, René G.; Mongazi, Chrystelle; M. Soumanou, Mohamed; Sohounhloue, Dominique title: Effects of essential oil from Cymbopogon citratus leaves and its susceptibility on the quality of fresh orange juice during storage date: 2017-03-26 words: 5371 flesch: 53 summary: March 21 2017 Published: March 27 2017 CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Euloge S. Adjou, Laboratory of Study and Research in Applied Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, University of Abomey-Calavi, 01, P. O. Box 2009, Cotonou, BENIN mail: eulogesenan@yahoo.fr phone: (+229) 95924907 JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Article Chemical composition and biological activity of essential oil from Cymbopogon citratus leaves on the quality of fresh orange juice during storage Euloge S. Adjou 1,* , Edwige Dahouenon Ahoussi 1 , René G. Dègnon 1 , Chrystelle Mongazi 1 , Mohamed M. Soumanou 1 , Dominique Sohounhloue 1 1 Laboratory of Study and Research in Applied Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Abstract The present study aims to evaluate the effect of essential oil (EO) from Cymbopogon citratus leaves against the spoilage flora of fresh orange juice. After identification of spoilage flora of fresh orange juice, antimicrobial tests were carried out with the EO of Cymbopogon citratus to evaluate its antimicrobial activity on spoilage flora of fresh orange juice. keywords: adjou; antimicrobial; benin; citratus; food; juice; oil; orange cache: haf-7927.pdf plain text: haf-7927.txt item: #143 of 201 id: haf-8001 author: Huda, Nazmul; Shahidul Haque, Khan; Kumer Roy, Biplob; Ram Sarker, Nathu title: Seasonal Weather Impacts on Biomass Production of Moringa oleifera at Different Fertilizer Doses date: 2017-05-30 words: 5203 flesch: 63 summary: Irrespective of fertilizer doses, the biomass yield of Moringa oleifera in different season varied significantly (P<0.001) with the highest and lowest was in summer (2793.6 kg/ha) and winter (309.7 kg/ha). The potential of Moringa oleifera for agricultural and industrial uses. keywords: autumn; doses; fertilizer; moringa; oleifera; production; season; yield cache: haf-8001.pdf plain text: haf-8001.txt item: #144 of 201 id: haf-8343 author: Bolis, Barbara; Schrank, Magdalena; Fusi, Jasmine; Mollo, Antonio; Veronesi, Maria Cristina title: Biochemical composition of amniotic fluid in normal puppies at term of pregnancy: preliminary data date: 2017-05-29 words: 408 flesch: 46 summary: The aim of the present study was to define the biochemical composition of amniotic fluid of puppies born by elective Caesarean section (CS) at term of pregnancy. IGF-I and NEFA concentrations in fetal fluids of term pregnancy dogs. keywords: composition; fluid cache: haf-8343.pdf plain text: haf-8343.txt item: #145 of 201 id: haf-8348 author: Filipe, Joel Fernando Soares; Curone, Giulio; Trevisi, Erminio; Amadori, Massimo; Turin, Lauretta; Moroni, Paolo; Vigo, Daniele; Addis, Maria Filippa; Riva, Federica title: A comparison study of the inflammatory response in Holstein Friesian versus a local cattle breed (Rendena) date: 2017-06-01 words: 568 flesch: 48 summary: HF cows showed a more severe systemic inflammatory response at T2 and T3 in comparison with R cows (Fig.1). The impact of genetic selection for increased milk yield on the welfare of dairy cows. keywords: cows; milk cache: haf-8348.pdf plain text: haf-8348.txt item: #146 of 201 id: haf-8352 author: Polito, Umberto; Dell'Era, Elena; Tessaro, Irene; Peretti, Giuseppe Maria; Di Giancamillo, Alessia title: Meniscus matrix morphological composition: age-dependent evaluation in a swine model date: 2017-06-01 words: 593 flesch: 40 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 References Deponti, D., Di Giancamillo, A., Scotti, C., Peretti, G.M., Martin, I., 2013. Proceeding of Veterinary and Animal Science Days 2017, 6th- 8th June, Milan, Italy HAF © 2013 keywords: adult; animal; menisci cache: haf-8352.pdf plain text: haf-8352.txt item: #147 of 201 id: haf-8367 author: Dieci, Cecilia; Lodde, valentina; Labreque, Rémi; Tessaro, Irene; Sirard, Marc-André; Luciano, Alberto Maria title: Morphological markers to select populations of oocytes with different cultural needs for dedicated pre-maturation protocols date: 2017-05-29 words: 559 flesch: 38 summary: This study aims at identifying correlations between cumulus-oocyte complex (COC) morphology and oocyte chromatin configuration and secondly at testing the hypothesis that only fully grown oocytes at earlier stages of differentiation with loosely compacted chromatin (GV1) can benefit from Pre-IVM treatment. Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Chromatin configuration, Developmental competence, COCs morphology, Pre-IVM treatment, transcriptomic analysis CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Cecilia Dieci cecilia.dieci@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Morphological markers to select populations of oocytes with different cultural needs for dedicated pre-maturation protocols Cecilia Dieci1, Valentina Lodde1, Rémi Labrecque2, Irene Tessaro1, Marc-André Sirard2 and Alberto M. Luciano1 1University of Milan, Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, Italy 2 Universite Laval, Department des Sciences Animales, Quebec, Canada Abstract Oocyte’s chromatin gradually becomes more compacted during the final stage of oocyte development and the level of chromatin compaction is considered a marker of oocyte differentiation (Luciano et al., 2014). keywords: chromatin; ivm; oocyte cache: haf-8367.pdf plain text: haf-8367.txt item: #148 of 201 id: haf-8368 author: Ceriotti, Serena; Bullone, Michela; Ferrucci, Francesco; Lavoie, Jean-Pierre title: Assessment of pulmonary vascular smooth muscle remodeling in severe equine asthma date: 2017-05-29 words: 501 flesch: 45 summary: We investigated the presence of PA remodeling in SEA, the involvement of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) alterations and their reversibility following long-term antigen avoidance or inhaled corticosteroids. Pulmonary hypertension in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. keywords: horses; remodeling cache: haf-8368.pdf plain text: haf-8368.txt item: #149 of 201 id: haf-8370 author: Tecilla, Marco; Roccabianca, Paola; Pilo, Paola; Origgi, Francesco Carlo title: Characterization of the immune response against Testudinid herpesvirus 3: new insight date: 2017-05-29 words: 410 flesch: 39 summary: Of the six detected positive clones, only one was confirmed by F.A.C.S. Selected clone was determined to be a concatamer of different TeHV3 genomic fragments including the partial sequence of TE17, UL15, Major capsid protein (MCP), and Glycoprotein B (gB) genes. TeHV3 infections in different species of the genus Testudo correlate with various lesions profiles, disease severity and clinical outcome, suggesting the existence of a complex host-pathogen interaction. keywords: host; tehv3 cache: haf-8370.pdf plain text: haf-8370.txt item: #150 of 201 id: haf-8374 author: Catozzi, Carlotta; Lecchi, Cristina; Gini, Chiara; Ceciliani, Fabrizio; Finotello, Riccardo; Ressel, Lorenzo title: Expression Analysis of MicroRNAs in FFPE samples of canine cutaneous and oral melanoma by RT-qPCR date: 2017-05-29 words: 608 flesch: 50 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 Fig 1: Boxplots of the median (black line), the mean (+), 25%- and 75%-quartile and range of the values measured, as well as statistical differences between groups are shown for miR-145, miR-146a, miR-425-5p, miR-365 and miR-155 in control, oral melanoma (oral M) and cutaneous melanoma (skin M) samples References Peng and Croce, 2016. MiR-425-5p was upregulated (p = 0.039) only in skin melanoma (Fig. 1 C). keywords: melanoma cache: haf-8374.pdf plain text: haf-8374.txt item: #151 of 201 id: haf-8375 author: Meroni, Gabriele; Morandi, Stefano; Brasca, Milena; Martino, Piera Anna title: Molecular typing of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius canine strains by three commonly used techniques date: 2017-05-29 words: 544 flesch: 31 summary: S. pseudintermedius infection was recently described in humans. Despite this, only in 2008 was described the first molecular protocol for diagnostic identification of S. pseudintermedius (Bannoehr et al., 2009). keywords: pseudintermedius; staphylococcus cache: haf-8375.pdf plain text: haf-8375.txt item: #152 of 201 id: haf-8376 author: Nobile, Maria; Panseri, Sara; Arioli, Francesco; Chiesa, Luca Maria title: Preliminary study about the detection of perfluoroalkyl substances in eel samples of Lake Garda by liquid chromatography tandem mass high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS). date: 2017-05-29 words: 532 flesch: 49 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Eels, Perfluoroalkyl substances, LC-HRMS CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Maria Nobile maria.nobile1@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Preliminary study about the detection of perfluoroalkyl substances in eel samples of Lake Garda by liquid chromatography tandem mass high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS). The developmental toxicity of perfluoroalkyl acids and their derivatives. keywords: acid; perfluoro cache: haf-8376.pdf plain text: haf-8376.txt item: #153 of 201 id: haf-8377 author: Labella, Giuseppe Federico; Chiesa, Luca Maria; Panseri, Sara; Arioli, Francesco title: Analyses of organochlorine pesticides residues in eels (Anguilla anguilla) from Lake Garda using Gas chromatography coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS/MS). date: 2017-05-29 words: 569 flesch: 56 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Pesticides residues, GC-MS/MS, Food Safety, Environmental contaminants CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Giuseppe Labella giuseppe.labella@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Analyses of organochlorine pesticides residues in eels (Anguilla anguilla) from Lake Garda using Gas chromatography coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) Giuseppe F. Labella1*, Luca M. Chiesa1, Sara Panseri1, Francesco Arioli1 1University of Milan, Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, Italy Abstract Lake Garda is located in one of the most populated and industrialized area of Italy (Camusso et al., 2001). European eels (Anguilla anguilla) are considered as suitable matrix for biomonitoring environmental contaminants in European water (Belpaire et al., 2007), being widespread in many European waters and highly contaminated by lipophilic compounds, due to the high lipid content (up to 40%) keywords: anguilla; eel cache: haf-8377.pdf plain text: haf-8377.txt item: #154 of 201 id: haf-8378 author: Savarese, Alice; Locatelli, Chiara; Maurizi, Niccolò; Briante, Nicolò; Brambilla, Paola Giuseppina title: Comparative analysis of a portable smartphone­based electrocardiograph (D­Heart®) versus standard 6­leads electrocardiograph in the canine patient. date: 2017-05-29 words: 544 flesch: 49 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 References Bruining, N., et al., 2014. 21(2 Suppl), 4-13 Haberman, Z.C., et al., 2015. keywords: heart cache: haf-8378.pdf plain text: haf-8378.txt item: #155 of 201 id: haf-8379 author: Ruggerone, Beatrice; Bonelli, Francesca; Giordano, Alessia; Nocera, Irene; Paltrinieri, Saverio; Sgorbini, Micaela title: Validation of a Paraoxon-based method for measurement of Paraoxonase (PON-1) activity and establishment of RI in horses date: 2017-05-29 words: 673 flesch: 54 summary: The aim of this study is to validate a paraoxon-based method to measure PON-1 and to establish reference intervals (RIs) in healthy horses and foals. 1: Comparison of results obtained in adult horses vs foals, stallions vs mares vs geldings, Trotters vs Warmblood adult horses, male vs female foals, and Trotter vs Warmblood foals. keywords: horses; method; veterinary cache: haf-8379.pdf plain text: haf-8379.txt item: #156 of 201 id: haf-8380 author: Bottagisio, Marta; Soggiu, Alessio; Lovati, Arianna B.; Toscano, Marco; Piras, Cristian; Romanò, Carlo L.; Bonizzi, Luigi; Roncada, Paola; Drago, Lorenzo title: Phenotypic and genomic identification of Staphylococcus epidermidis GOI1153754-03-14 isolated from an infected orthopedic prosthesis date: 2017-05-29 words: 715 flesch: 32 summary: Draft Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus epidermidis Clinical Strain GOI1153754-03-14, Isolated from an Infected Knee Prosthesis. FWCG01000000 (Bottagisio et al., 2017). keywords: epidermidis; italy; milan cache: haf-8380.pdf plain text: haf-8380.txt item: #157 of 201 id: haf-8382 author: Castrica, Marta; Giromini, Carlotta; Rebucci, Raffaella; Gottardo, Davide; Bontempo, Valentino; Baldi, Antonella title: Polyphenolic content and antioxidant activity in agri-food wastes and by-products using different extraction methods date: 2017-05-29 words: 459 flesch: 53 summary: The in vitro physiological extraction yielded high polyphenolic content and antioxidant capacity, suggesting that during the digestion the bioaccessibility of phenolic and antioxidant compounds was improved. 87, 3620–3629 Valorisation of agri-food wastes and by-products as animal feed: digestibility, polyphenolic content and antioxidant capacity Marta Castrica1*, Carlotta Giromini1, Raffaella Rebucci1, Davide Gottardo1, Valentino Bontempo1, keywords: antioxidant cache: haf-8382.pdf plain text: haf-8382.txt item: #158 of 201 id: haf-8383 author: Perricone, Vera; Agazzi, Alessandro; Costa, Anna Maria; Lazzari, Massimo; Savoini, Giovanni; Calcante, Aldo; Tangorra, Francesco Maria title: Real-time dry matter content of corn silage by a microwave sensor date: 2017-05-31 words: 446 flesch: 53 summary: The aim of the study was to test and calibrate a portable microwave sensor (MS) for DM content in corn silage samples. DM content of some forages, such as silages, can undergo huge variations during storing, affecting the total daily DM consumed. keywords: content cache: haf-8383.pdf plain text: haf-8383.txt item: #159 of 201 id: haf-8384 author: Mariani, Elena; Rizzi, Nicoletta; Invernizzi, Guido; Agazzi, Alessandro; Maggi, Adriana; Savoini, Giovanni title: Nuclear factor E2-related factor 2’s activation in transgenic mice fed with dosage of saturated or unsaturated fatty acids using in vivo bioluminescent imaging date: 2017-05-31 words: 435 flesch: 39 summary: Dietary treatments did not affect body weight and feed intake as well as Nrf2 expression in both pre- and post-challenge phases, with the exception of the abdominal region (P=0.031 pre-challenge); in this area, during the pre-challenge phase, OVX showed lower Nrf2 activation (P<0.001). The aim of the study was to evaluate the activation of Nrf2 in transgenic mice fed saturated or polyunsaturated fatty acids and the anti-inflammatory effect of oestrogens on organism. keywords: factor; nrf2 cache: haf-8384.pdf plain text: haf-8384.txt item: #160 of 201 id: haf-8385 author: Farina, Greta; Agazzi, Alessandro; Invernizzi, Guido; Savoini, Giovanni; Loor, Juan Jose title: Can lipid supplementation modulate inflammatory state and immune response in periparturient goats? A case study on hepatic and adipose miRNA expression date: 2017-05-31 words: 481 flesch: 51 summary: These outcomes consolidate the hypothesis that lipogenesis takes place in dairy goat in the two weeks around calving, but it is reduced when compared to dairy cow (Khan et al., 2013). Transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism and inflammation in transition dairy goats by fish oil and stearate. keywords: adipose; dairy; expression cache: haf-8385.pdf plain text: haf-8385.txt item: #161 of 201 id: haf-8386 author: Lin, Shih-kuo; Nobile, Maria; Chiesa, Luca title: Preliminary results for the detection method of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) residues in pork date: 2017-05-29 words: 466 flesch: 56 summary: Pilot study on levels of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in selected foodstuffs and human milk from Italy. One gram of pork sample was deproteined with acetonitrile, then extracted by Waters® WAX SPE (solid phase extraction) cartridges. keywords: european; food; pork cache: haf-8386.pdf plain text: haf-8386.txt item: #162 of 201 id: haf-8387 author: Ceriani, Federica; Chiesa, Luca Maria; Panseri, Sara; Arioli, Francesco title: Metals in mussels from Italian mollusc culture plants date: 2017-05-31 words: 544 flesch: 53 summary: No 1881/2006 (European Union, 2006) for Cadmium (0,15; 0,23; 0,08; 2,13 mg kg-1), Lead (0,14; 0,20; 0,32; 0,79mg kg-1) and Mercury (0,02; 0,03; 0,04; 0,16 mg kg-1), except one sample from south Adriatic sea, that showed Mercury concentration of 0.528 mg kg-1. Arsenic, Nickel and Chromium MLs are not stated by EU. Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 Fig.1: Origin FAO areas of mussel samples FAO 37.2.1 Ligury, 37.2.2. keywords: efsa cache: haf-8387.pdf plain text: haf-8387.txt item: #163 of 201 id: haf-8389 author: D'Urso, Elisa Silvia; Faverzani, Stefano; Barella, Gabriele; Di Cesare, Federica; Gioeni, Daniela; Rabbogliatti, Vanessa; Stefanello, Damiano; Ravasio, Giuliano title: Ultrasound-guided epidural catheter placement with a new technique: preliminary cadaveric study. date: 2017-05-29 words: 446 flesch: 37 summary: The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of an ultrasound longitudinal sagittal approach to epidural catheter placement using a biopsy needle guide. Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Ultrasound, Epidural catheter, Dog, Cadaver CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Elisa Silvia D’Urso elisasilvia.durso@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Abstract Several methods are described in veterinary medicine to perform and assess correct epidural needle placement to provide effective epidural analgesia (Adami et al. 2017). keywords: catheter; operator cache: haf-8389.pdf plain text: haf-8389.txt item: #164 of 201 id: haf-8390 author: Gioeni, Daniela; Di Cesare, Federica; D'urso, Elisa Silvia; Rabbogliatti, Vanessa; Ravasio, Giuliano title: Evaluation of an oral transmucosal administration of dexmedetomidine-butorphanol and dexmedetomidine-methadone in dogs. date: 2017-05-29 words: 536 flesch: 41 summary: 24 mixed-breed dogs undergoing soft tissue surgery or diagnostic procedures were randomly divided in 4 groups (n = 6): two groups received OTM administration of dexmedetomidine (10 µg/kg-1) together with butorphanol (0.2 mg/kg-1, BTF-OTM group) or methadone (0.2mg/kg-1, MTD-OTM group); two groups received intramuscular (IM) administration of dexmedetomidine (5 µg/kg-1) together with butorphanol (0.2 m/kg-1, BTF-IM group) or methadone (0.2 mg/kg-1, MTD-IM). Marked vasoconstriction was observed after OTM administration, as probably related to α2-agonists use. keywords: administration; otm cache: haf-8390.pdf plain text: haf-8390.txt item: #165 of 201 id: haf-8391 author: Nordio, Laura; Marques, Andreia Filipa Tomas title: Validation of anti-FXR1 antibodies in the canine species and application to an immunohistochemical study of canine oral melanomas date: 2017-05-29 words: 469 flesch: 42 summary: A) Western blot, rabbit anti-FXR1 antibody, positive bands around 65 kDa. B) Immunohistochemistry, oral melanoma, cytoplasmic positivity of neoplastic cells to FXR1. Rabbit anti-FXR1 antibody, AEC chromogen, 40x. keywords: antibody; fxr1 cache: haf-8391.pdf plain text: haf-8391.txt item: #166 of 201 id: haf-8392 author: Sala, Giulia; Boccardo, Antonio; Coppoletta, Eleonora; Belloli, Angelo; Pravettoni, Davide title: The role of iatrogenic disease of cattle in admission to veterinary hospital date: 2017-05-29 words: 538 flesch: 44 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Bovine, Iatrogenic diseases, malpractice, medical error, zootechnical error CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Giulia Sala giulia.sala1@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf The role of iatrogenic disease of cattle in admission to veterinary hospital Iatrogenic diseases were caused mostly by erroneous administration of drugs (47,4%), excessive traction at birth (17,5%), improper milk or colostrum administration, frequently performed by oroesophageal tubing (16,7%) or by forced administration using a nipple bottle (12,3%). keywords: health; milan; veterinary cache: haf-8392.pdf plain text: haf-8392.txt item: #167 of 201 id: haf-8393 author: Talenti, Andrea; Bertolini, Francesca; Frattini, Stefano; Pagnacco, Giulio; Rothschild, Max F; Crepaldi, Paola title: Detection of selection signatures for ear carriage in Maltese goat breed date: 2017-05-29 words: 620 flesch: 43 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Goat, SNP, Selection signatures CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Andrea Talenti andrea.talenti@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Detection of selection signatures for ear carriage in Maltese goat breed Andrea Talenti1*, Francesca Bertolini2, Stefano Frattini1, Giulio Pagnacco1, Max F. Rothschild2, Paola Crepaldi1 and the Italian Goat Consortium 1University of Milan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Italy 2Iowa State University, Department of Animal Science, USA Abstract Selection and breeding practices in goats have led to the fixation of several traits. Genetic diversity of Italian goat breeds assessed with a medium-density SNP chip. keywords: goat; selection cache: haf-8393.pdf plain text: haf-8393.txt item: #168 of 201 id: haf-8395 author: Andreis, Maria Elena; Cummaudo, Marco; Polito, Umberto; Luciano, Alberto Maria; Cattaneo, Cristina; Di Giancamillo, Mauro; Di Giancamillo, Alessia; Modina, Silvia Clotilde title: Swine cortical and cancellous bone: histomorphometric and densitometric characterisation date: 2017-06-01 words: 522 flesch: 38 summary: The results of this study, although preliminary, may be considered a dependable starting point for the definition of normal bone features in pigs. They have been used for several studies involving bone growth, bone and cartilage fractures and femoral head osteonecrosis. keywords: bone; italy; milan cache: haf-8395.pdf plain text: haf-8395.txt item: #169 of 201 id: haf-8397 author: Bernardi, Serena; Martini, Valeria; Marelli, Priscilla; Cozzi, Marzia; Comazzi, Stefano title: Flow cytometry for feline lymphoma: a retrospective study about pre-analytical factors possibly affecting the quality of samples date: 2017-05-30 words: 626 flesch: 52 summary: Ninety-seven consecutive samples of suspected feline lymphoma were retrospectively selected from the authors’ institution FC database. FC can be safely applied to cases of suspected feline lymphomas, even for intra-abdominal lesions. keywords: lymphoma; samples cache: haf-8397.pdf plain text: haf-8397.txt item: #170 of 201 id: haf-8399 author: Minoli, Lucia; Scanziani, Eugenio title: Tumor Microenvironment In Experimental Models Of Human Cancer: Morphological Investigational Approaches date: 2017-05-31 words: 534 flesch: 19 summary: It is composed of different cell populations and structures (such as tumor-associated vasculature, immune- inflammatory cells, fibroblasts). TME could either promote or antagonize tumor growth and has a great potential as target for novel therapeutic strategies (Hanahan and Coussens, 2012). keywords: italy; milan; tumor cache: haf-8399.pdf plain text: haf-8399.txt item: #171 of 201 id: haf-8400 author: trovatelli, marco; Acocella, Fabio; Brizzola, Stefano; Ghiringhelli, Matteo; Zani, Davide title: Sheep head frame validation for CT and MRI studies date: 2017-05-31 words: 416 flesch: 50 summary: The role of elements like mouth bar and ovine head pins is to lock the head in a stable position during imaging acquisition; fixing is guaranteed by V shape head pins that are arranged against the zygomatic arches. Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 Fig.1: Sheep head during CT imaging acquisition. keywords: head; imaging cache: haf-8400.pdf plain text: haf-8400.txt item: #172 of 201 id: haf-8401 author: Zenobi, Alessandro; Gandolfi, Fulvio; Brevini, Tiziana Angela Luisa title: Matrix stiffness and oxigen tension modulate epigenetic conversion of mouse dermal fibroblasts into insulin producing cells. date: 2017-05-29 words: 701 flesch: 42 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 Fig.1: A) representative image of cells differentiated in PTFE (20% and 5% oxygen) and on PAA gels (20% and 5% oxygen); B) insulin release in all samples after hyperglycemic stimulation with 20 mM of glucose. Recent studies show the direct influence of substrates on lineage commitment and cell differentiation (Engler, et al., 2006; Evans, et al., 2009). keywords: cells; insulin; oxygen cache: haf-8401.pdf plain text: haf-8401.txt item: #173 of 201 id: haf-8403 author: Curone, Giulio; Panseri, Sara; Colombani, Carla; Chiesa, Luca Maria; Filipe, Joel; Faustini, Massimo title: Fatty acid profile, Desaturase and Atherogenic indices in milk of Holstein Friesian and Italian autochthonous cattle breeds date: 2017-05-29 words: 533 flesch: 57 summary: Several positive functional properties of milk derive from fatty acids (FA), mainly unsaturated fatty acids (UFA), either monounsaturated (MUFA) or polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids (Mills, S. et al 2011; Importance of n-3 fatty acids in health and disease. keywords: acids; italy; milk cache: haf-8403.pdf plain text: haf-8403.txt item: #174 of 201 id: haf-8406 author: Manzoni, Elena Franca Maria; Gandolfi, Fulvio; Brevini, Tiziana Angela Luisa title: Liquid Marble micro-bioreactor promotes 3D cell rearrangement and induces, maintains and stabilizes high plasticity in epigenetically erased fibroblasts date: 2017-05-29 words: 779 flesch: 51 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Epigenetic, 5-aza-CR, 3D culture, Micro-bioreactor, Plasticity CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Elena F.M. Manzoni elena.manzoni@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Liquid Marble micro-bioreactor promotes 3D cell rearrangement and induces, maintains and stabilizes high plasticity in epigenetically erased fibroblasts Elena F.M. Manzoni1*, Tiziana A.L. In contrast the use of a 3D system maintained and stabilized the high plasticity state in LM cells until the end of the experiments (Fig. 1). keywords: cells; fibroblasts; micro cache: haf-8406.pdf plain text: haf-8406.txt item: #175 of 201 id: haf-8407 author: Ghiringhelli, Matteo; Brizzola, Stefano Brizzola; Consolo, Filippo; Di Giancamillo, Alessia; Trovatelli, Marco; Martino, Piera Anna; Mocchi, Camilla; Stranieri, Angelica; Vitiello, Tiziana; Fusi, Eleonora; Bontempo, Valentino; Acocella, Fabio Acocella title: Isolated slaughterhouse liver as model for normothermic perfusion after warm and cold ischemia: single case report date: 2017-05-31 words: 581 flesch: 39 summary: Normothermic extracorporeal perfusion of isolated porcine liver after warm ischaemia: a preliminary report. Liver function, reflected by urea, albumin, total cholesterol, total bilirubin was seen during NELP. keywords: italy; liver; normothermic; perfusion cache: haf-8407.pdf plain text: haf-8407.txt item: #176 of 201 id: haf-8408 author: Serra, Valentina; Bazzocchi, Chiara title: Serological evidence of Midichloria mitochondrii circulation in humans parasitized by I. ricinus in Germany and development of a marker for tick bite date: 2017-05-29 words: 555 flesch: 40 summary: However, the high number (133 out of 274) of subjects parasitized by I. ricinus but negative to both bacteria prompted us to detect new more suitable I. ricinus/M. mitochondrii antigenic proteins to use as markers for tick bite. The obtained results showed that 82 out of 274 sera were positive to M. mitochondrii and 42 out of 175 sera of subjects negative to B. burgdorferi were positive to M. mitochondrii to confirm the good property of FliD protein as a tick bite marker. keywords: ricinus; tick cache: haf-8408.pdf plain text: haf-8408.txt item: #177 of 201 id: haf-8410 author: Meazzi, Sara; Lauzi, Stefania; Stranieri, Angelica; Paltrinieri, Saverio; Giordano, Alessia title: The gut microbiome and mucosal defenses in cats with coronaviruses: a pilot study date: 2017-05-29 words: 509 flesch: 35 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords FIP, Feline Coronavirus, Microbiota analysis, Immunity CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Sara Meazzi sara.meazzi@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf The gut microbiota and mucosal defenses in cats with coronaviruses: a pilot study Sara Meazzi1*, Stefania Lauzi1,2, Angelica Stranieri1, Saverio Paltrinieri1,2, Alessia Giordano1,2 1University of Milan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Italy 2University of Milan, Centro clinico-veterinario e zootecnico-sperimentale, Lodi, Italy Abstract Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) develops from a mutation of enteric feline coronaviruses (FCoVs) and an imbalance of the host immune response. The aim of this study is to provide preliminary data about the composition of gut microbiota in healthy cats compared with FCoV infected cats (with and without FIP), in order to evaluate whether changes of gut microbiota may induce changes in FCoV, in its genetic polymorphism and in the mucosal immunity. keywords: cats; feline; microbiota cache: haf-8410.pdf plain text: haf-8410.txt item: #178 of 201 id: haf-8411 author: Aidos, Lucia; Di Giancamillo, Alessia; Lanfranchi, Marco; Bertotto, Daniela; Radaelli, Giuseppe; Domeneghini, Cinzia title: Rearing temperature effect on the skeletal muscle fibres of Acipenser baerii yolk-sac larvae date: 2017-05-29 words: 508 flesch: 49 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Sturgeon, Stress, Temperature, Growth CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Lucia Aidos marialucia.matelaaidos@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Rearing temperature effect on the skeletal muscle fibers of Acipenser baerii yolk-sac larvae Lucia Aidos1*, Alessia Di Giancamillo1, Marco Lanfranchi3, Daniela Bertotto2, Giuseppe Radaelli2 and Cinzia Domeneghini1 1 University of Milan, Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, Italy 2University of Padua, Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, The present study aims at investigating the stress response and development in precocious stages of siberian sturgeon when subjected to different rearing temperatures, by analysing ontogeny, growth and stress response of yolk-sac larvae. keywords: larvae; stress; temperature cache: haf-8411.pdf plain text: haf-8411.txt item: #179 of 201 id: haf-8412 author: rabbogliatti, vanessa; Di Giancamillo, Mauro; De Zani, Donatella; Gioeni, Daniela; Di Cesare, Federica; D'urso, Elisa Silvia; Zani, Davide Danilo; ravasio, Giuliano title: Peribulbar block in equine isolated heads. Development of a single needle technique and tomographic evaluation date: 2017-05-29 words: 492 flesch: 41 summary: Based on literature the aim of the study is to determinate, in equine specimens, feasibility of inferior PBB with single needle injection, by using contrast medium (CM), and to evaluate thought Computed Tomography (CT) the distribution around the optic nerve (degrees). Am J Vet Res 74: 1126-1132 Shilo-Benjamini, Y., Pascoe, P.J., Maggs, D.J. et al. 2013. keywords: needle cache: haf-8412.pdf plain text: haf-8412.txt item: #180 of 201 id: haf-8414 author: Gorla, Erica; Cozzi, Maria Cristina; Roman Ponce, Sergio Ivan; Ruiz López, Felipe J.; Vega Murillo, Vicente E.; Cerolini, Silvia; Bagnato, Alessandro; Strillacci, Maria Giuseppina title: Genomic variability in Mexican chicken population using Copy Number Variation date: 2017-05-29 words: 611 flesch: 46 summary: Finally this study provides a CNV map based on the 600K SNP chip array jointly with a genome-wide gene copy number estimates in Mexican chicken population. Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing. keywords: chicken; genome; population cache: haf-8414.pdf plain text: haf-8414.txt item: #181 of 201 id: haf-8416 author: Di Cesare, Federica; Cagnardi, Petra; Gioeni, Daniela; D'Urso, Elisa Silvia; Rabbogliatti, Vanessa; Lucatello, Lorena; Merlanti, Roberta; Ravasio, Giuliano; Villa, Roberto title: Pharmacokinetics of dexmedetomidine combined with methadone following oral-transmucosal and intramuscular administration in dogs date: 2017-05-29 words: 473 flesch: 38 summary: Regarding sedative drugs, OTM administration is very attractive in veterinary medicine, especially for patients difficult to inject and restrain (Messenger et al., 2016). Mean ± SD terminal half-lives of dexmedetomidine were 187.42 ± 109.66 and 94.78 ± 34.08 min after OTM and IM administration, respectively. keywords: administration; otm cache: haf-8416.pdf plain text: haf-8416.txt item: #182 of 201 id: haf-8418 author: Terzaghi, Laura; Luciano, Alberto Maria; Fair, Trudee; Lodde, Valentina title: Effect of pharmacological inhibition of Progesterone receptors PGRMC1 and nPR on bovine oocyte meiosis. date: 2017-05-29 words: 578 flesch: 37 summary: Thus, P4 driven nuclear maturation could act on different oocyte development stages. Expression, regulation, and function of progesterone receptors in bovine cumulus oocyte complexes during in vitro maturation. keywords: oocyte; pgrmc1; progesterone cache: haf-8418.pdf plain text: haf-8418.txt item: #183 of 201 id: haf-8420 author: Facchini, Elena; Dell'Orco, Francesca; Mortarino, Michele; Rizzi, Rita title: Expression monitoring of relevant sensitivity genes in honey bee antennae and their relationship with Hygienic Behavior date: 2017-06-01 words: 572 flesch: 46 summary: Mondet, F., C. Alaux, D. Severac, M. Rohmer, A. R. Mercer, Y. Le Conte. 2015. 106, 365-379. Vergoz, V., H. J. McQuillan, L. H. Geddes, K. Pullar, B. J. Nicholson, M. G. Paulin, A. R. Mercer. 2009. keywords: behavior; hygienic cache: haf-8420.pdf plain text: haf-8420.txt item: #184 of 201 id: haf-8424 author: Marescotti, Maria Elena; Gaviglio, Anna; Demartini, Eugenio title: The value of local Italian supply chain of the large wild ungulates meat: the case of the red deer meat in Alpine valleys date: 2017-05-29 words: 450 flesch: 50 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Large wild game meat, Short food supply chain, Economic value, Territorial marketing, Sustainable development CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Maria E. Marescotti maria.marescotti@unimi.it JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Abstract Currently in Italy, in contrast to other EU countries, a supply chain (SC) for hunted game meat does not exist. Due to its representativeness among Italian wild ungulates, the research focus on red deer meat. keywords: meat cache: haf-8424.pdf plain text: haf-8424.txt item: #185 of 201 id: haf-8437 author: Cozzi, Marzia; Comazzi, Stefano; Marelli, Stefano; Rizzi, Rita title: Prevalence of Golden retriever in European dogs with lymphoma: preliminary data date: 2017-05-31 words: 430 flesch: 41 summary: Odds ratio (OR) for different lymphoma subtypes are calculated in comparison with mixed breed population, considered as control. Aim of the present study is to investigate the prevalence of GR in a huge case series of canine lymphomas from different EU countries and to compare prevalence of different subtypes with studies in extra-EU countries, in order to support a possible different genetic predisposition. keywords: lymphoma; prevalence cache: haf-8437.pdf plain text: haf-8437.txt item: #186 of 201 id: haf-8447 author: Stucchi, Luca; Dosi, Miranda; Ferrucci, Francesco title: Performance profiling of Standardbred racehorses by means of Treadmill Exercise Testing date: 2017-05-29 words: 538 flesch: 57 summary: Aim of the present work is to analyze these parameters in a population of high performance Standarbred racehorses. Six healthy and at the same level of training Standardbred racehorses (average age 3,3±2,0 y.o.) underwent an incremental exercise test (Zucca et al., 2003) on a high speed treadmill (Sӓto I, SATO, Sweden). keywords: lactate; v200; vla4 cache: haf-8447.pdf plain text: haf-8447.txt item: #187 of 201 id: haf-8501 author: Tocci, Roberto; Sargentini, Clara; Martini, Andrea; Campostrini, Matteo; Pippi, Eleonora; Iaconisi, Valeria; Bonelli, Antonio; Giorgetti, Alessandro title: Quality characteristics of the Musculus longissimus dorsi from Pecora dell’Amiata reared in Tuscany date: 2017-07-21 words: 5868 flesch: 70 summary: 2.3 Statistical analysis: Data were submitted to one way ANOVA through the means squares method, using JMP 10 statistical software (SAS Institute Inch 2013), and considering as fixed factor the category (ewe meat and lamb meat). The PCA showed two different groups: lamb meat had higher saturated fatty acids that are derived from milk, and ewe meat was characterized by C18:0. keywords: acids; animal; et al; ewe; ewe meat; fatty; health; lamb; lamb meat; meat; pufa; ratio; science; sfa cache: haf-8501.pdf plain text: haf-8501.txt item: #188 of 201 id: haf-8518 author: Przyborski, Stefan; Gandolfi, Fulvio; Brevini, Tiziana A.L. title: Bridging the gap between cell culture and live tissue date: 2017-11-26 words: 4490 flesch: 53 summary: Until recently, cell culture has been performed in monolayers, that, although providing useful biological information, lack the ability to reproduce the morphology and 3-D architecture of the original tissue. Inert and non-degradable materials such as synthetic polymers can be carefully tweaked to capture the cellular niche, creating scaffolds suitable for cell culture (Bokari et al. 2007; keywords: cell; culture; et al; human; tissue; vitro; vivo cache: haf-8518.pdf plain text: haf-8518.txt item: #189 of 201 id: haf-8522 author: Arroyo, Laura; Bassols, Anna title: Brain neurotransmitters and hippocampal proteome in pigs under stress and environmental enrichment date: 2017-06-01 words: 374 flesch: 26 summary: Under the hypothesis that different stress situations will lead to changes in NT composition that will be specific for crucial brain areas, we have tested the effects of transport stress, handling stress at the slaughterhouse, and the stress-susceptible genotype (Ryr1) on the amine NT concentration in amygdala, hippocampus, PFC and hypothalamus of pigs. Other brain areas as the amygdala, the hippocampus or the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are involved in emotions such as happiness, anxiety and fear. keywords: brain; stress cache: haf-8522.pdf plain text: haf-8522.txt item: #190 of 201 id: haf-8523 author: Lavoie, Jean-Pierre title: Airway remodeling and its reversibility in equine asthma date: 2017-06-01 words: 571 flesch: 43 summary: However, airway smooth muscle remodeling is only partially reversible with current anti-asthma medications. The airway subepithelial collagen depositions were almost completely reversed with 6 to 12 months of treatment with either antigen avoidance or inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) administration, and there was a modest (30% on average) decrease in airway smooth muscle (Leclere et al., 2011). keywords: airway; asthma; remodeling cache: haf-8523.pdf plain text: haf-8523.txt item: #191 of 201 id: haf-8524 author: Przyborski, Stefan title: Advanced cell culture technology for generation of in vivo-like tissue models date: 2017-06-01 words: 657 flesch: 43 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 l Keywords Cell culture, Three-dimensional, Tissue, Model, Assay CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Stefan Przyborski stefan.przyborski@durham.ac.uk JOURNAL HOME PAGE riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf Advanced cell culture technology for generation of in vivo-like tissue models Stefan Przyborski1,2 1Durham University, Department of Biosciences, Durham, United Kingdom 2ReproCELL Europe Limited, NETPark Incubator, United Kingdom Abstract Human tissues are mostly composed of different cell types, that are often highly organised in relation to each other. This figure showcases the potential of 3D cell culture technology and how it can be used to create tissue-like models. keywords: cell; culture; model cache: haf-8524.pdf plain text: haf-8524.txt item: #192 of 201 id: haf-8529 author: Joost, Stéphane title: Spatial dependence of genetic data related to human health and livestock disease resistance: a role for geography to support the One Health approach date: 2017-06-05 words: 1091 flesch: 42 summary: Vol. IV, No. 1s ISSN: 2283-3927 Measures of spatial dependence are key to detect and visualize spatial patterns in health and/or genetic data because spatial statistics can reveal signals that remain often hidden using thematic mapping. It is possible to identify spatial patterns in the geographic space by means of spatial statistics. keywords: data; health; statistics cache: haf-8529.pdf plain text: haf-8529.txt item: #193 of 201 id: haf-8798 author: Adjou, Euloge; Mètomè, Grace; Gbaguidi, Bertin A.; Dahouenon-Ahoussi, Edwige; Sohounhloue, Dominique title: Evaluation of the fungal microflora infesting pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millspaugh) in southern Benin and associated mycological hazards date: 2017-12-02 words: 3719 flesch: 55 summary: Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millspaugh) is a legume belong to the family of Fabaceae (Wu et al., 2009). Indeed, known to be an excellent source of protein (21.7%), pigeon pea are also a good source of energy, vitamins and essential amino acids such as lysine, phenylalanine, valine, leucine and isoleucine (Wu et al., 2009). keywords: adjou; aspergillus; benin; et al; food; fungi; pea; pigeon; seeds cache: haf-8798.pdf plain text: haf-8798.txt item: #194 of 201 id: haf-8975 author: Ali, Md Zulfekar; Sultana, Shirin; Karim, Md. Rezaul; Hassan, Md. Zakir; Yousuf, Md. Abu; Hossen, Anowar; Samad, Mohammed Abdus; Giasuddin, Md.; Rahman, Md. Mostafizer title: Compared the effect of indirect ELISA and serum plate agglutination (SPA) test for the detection of Mycoplasma gallisepticum in chicken date: 2017-12-02 words: 3230 flesch: 63 summary: The results showed the comparatively higher number of positive results in iELISA test than SPA test. The study may helpful for screening the flock for MG and small-holding farmers may use SPA test rather than iELISA test due to rapid, easy and cost effective. keywords: ielisa; mycoplasma; results; spa; test cache: haf-8975.pdf plain text: haf-8975.txt item: #195 of 201 id: haf-9250 author: Zaki, Engy Fayz; El Faham, Ahmed Ibrahim; mohmed, Nematallah Gamal El din title: Quality characteristics of chicken burger processed from broiler chicken fed on different types of vegetable oils and feed additives date: 2018-02-15 words: 4799 flesch: 64 summary: l KEYWORDS Broiler feed, Fat source, Feed additives, Chicken burger, Quality characteristics. Abstract The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of feeding broiler chicken on different vegetable oils with commercial multi- enzyme feed additives on the quality characteristics of chicken burger. keywords: additives; animal; broiler; burger; chicken; chicken burger; feed; meat; oil; palm; science; soybean cache: haf-9250.pdf plain text: haf-9250.txt item: #196 of 201 id: haf-9324 author: Shingla, Krupaben M.; Mehta, Bhavbhuti M. title: Cholesterol and its oxidation products: occurrence and analysis in milk and milk products date: 2018-03-03 words: 13145 flesch: 55 summary: These oxides are produced endogenously in human tissues during conversion of cholesterol to bile acids and steroid hormones and they can oxidize cholesterol effectively in the presence of human gastric fluid and it acts as a better medium for cholesterol oxidation and produce COP in vivo (Dobarganes et al. 2003). Cholesterol oxidation in the retina: implications of 7KCh formation in chronic inflammation and age-related macular degeneration. keywords: 2002; acids; analysis; animal; cholesterol; cholesterol oxidation; cop; cops; dairy; determination; et al; extraction; fat; fatty; food; haf; health; int; issn; mehta; method; milk; oxidation; oxysterols; plasma; products; safety; science; shingla; total; vol cache: haf-9324.pdf plain text: haf-9324.txt item: #197 of 201 id: haf-9581 author: Zaki, Engy Fayz; El Faham, Ahmed Ibrahim; Mohmed, Nematallah Gamal title: Fatty acids profile and quality characteristics of broiler chicken meat fed different dietary oil sources with some additives date: 2018-04-20 words: 5323 flesch: 67 summary: Results showed that feeding broiler chickens on different types of dietary oils had significant effect on the fatty acid profile of broiler chicken meat. 2.2 Determination of fatty acid profile The fatty acid profiles of broiler chicken meat were analyzed as describe by AOAC (2012). keywords: acid; broiler; broiler chicken; chicken; chicken meat; fed; loss; meat; oil; palm; palm oil; soybean; soybean oil cache: haf-9581.pdf plain text: haf-9581.txt item: #198 of 201 id: haf-9949 author: Li, Xilong; Lü, Hui-Yuan; Liu, Bang-Min; Jiang, Xian-Ren title: Effect of Astragalus polysaccharide supplementation on growth performance and plasma parameters of weaned piglets under commercial condition date: 2018-11-21 words: 2900 flesch: 58 summary: Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of dietary APS supplementation on growth performance, plasma biochemical parameters, immune and antioxidant indexes of weaned piglets under the commercial condition. J. of Health, Animal science and Food safety 5 (2018) 50 - 59 54 3 Results and discussion The effect of dietary APS supplementation on growth performance of weaned piglets is shown in Table 2. keywords: aps; day; feed; growth; piglets; plasma cache: haf-9949.pdf plain text: haf-9949.txt item: #199 of 201 id: haf-9992 author: Fusi, Jasmine; Peric, Tanja; Bergamin, Cristina; Veronesi, Maria Cristina title: 17-ß-Estradiol and Testosterone concentrations in claws of puppies up to 60 days of age date: 2018-06-12 words: 731 flesch: 60 summary: The current 30% of canine perinatal mortality (Tonnessen et al., 2012) claims the need to deepen the knowledge about this phase, characterized by long-term hormonal and metabolic changes, that could benefit of long time-frame methods of investigation, reducing the quantity of samplings and thus respecting animal welfare (Veronesi et al., 2015). Given that sexual steroid hormones were reported to have an influence on health outcomes and development already from the perinatal period (Frey et al., 2017), in this work 17-β-Estradiol (E2) and Testosterone (T) concentrations were assessed from the claws of dogs up to 60 days of age, to identify possible endogenous biomarkers. keywords: age; days cache: haf-9992.pdf plain text: haf-9992.txt item: #200 of 201 id: haf-9995 author: Ceriani, Federica; Chiesa, Luca; Panseri, Sara; Arioli, Francesco title: Preliminary studies on environmental pollutants in chamois and wild boar from Eastern Piedmont, Italy. date: 2018-06-12 words: 667 flesch: 52 summary: EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) has released a scientific opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of brominated flame retardants in food (EFSA, 2011) and in 2014 European commission has asked Member States to monitor the presence of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in food over the next two years (EC, 2014). The aim of this study is to evaluate the presence of OCPs, PCBs, PBDEs and PAHs in chamois and wild boar from Eastern Piedmont, Italy. keywords: boar; food; iarc cache: haf-9995.pdf plain text: haf-9995.txt item: #201 of 201 id: haf-9999 author: Bardi, Edoardo; Lubian, Emanuele; Whitaker, Nikhil; Romussi, Stefano title: Preliminary study on hematological values of two endangered turtle species: Indotestudo travancorica and Batagur kachuga date: 2018-06-12 words: 673 flesch: 53 summary: The aim of this study was to provide a first assessment of hematological values in Travancore tortoise (Indotestudo travancorica) and red-crowned roofed turtle (Batagur kachuga), two endangered species on which medical literature is still lacking. This is the first study on hematological values of I. travancorica and B. kachuga. keywords: kachuga; travancorica; values cache: haf-9999.pdf plain text: haf-9999.txt