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It has been shown that dyslipidemia involves low concentrations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) but high concentrations of other plasma lipids. T...
SAFDAR ALI KHAN1, FARHEEN ANSARI1, SANWAL ASLAM2*, AMJAD HUSSAIN3, MUREED HUSSAIN1, MAJID MAHMOOD4, ALI MUHAMMAD4, RAHMAT ALI1 , ASAD ASLAM3 AND FATIMA ALI1
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In the present study, 150 farm chicken and 100 desi chicken were screened for the existence of parasitic helminthes. Among the desi chicken, 61 were reported p...
SADAF SARFRAZ1*, SAFDAR AMEER1, REENA AMBREEN1, SHOMAILA SIKANDAR 2, SHAISTA NAWAZ3 AND YASIR SALEEM3
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Globally, an increased use of pesticides has resulted in the occurrence of drug resistant microbes. This has urged the investigators and researchers to use and...
ASMAT MEHMOOD, ZAEEMA KHAN AND NAILA MALKANI*
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Oral cancer is widely spreading throughout Asia. This study focused on the prevalence of oral cancer in Pakistan from 2010 to 2016. Data for oral cancer cases ...
SAIMA AFTAB1, ATTIA HAMID1, MAHJBEEN2, JAVERIA TARIQ2, ZULQURNAIN ALI2, ASMA ZAFAR2*
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Bioethanol production at the industrial level is engaged by various bacteria, yeast, and fungi. But Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most commonly used y...
SAIMA AFTAB1, ATTIA HAMID1, MAHJBEEN2, JAVERIA TARIQ2, ZULQURNAIN ALI2, ASMA ZAFAR2*
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Bioethanol production at the industrial level is engaged by various bacteria, yeast, and fungi. But Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most commonly used y...
ANSA KHALID, UZMA HAMEED* AND IKRAM-UL-HAQ
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Dextransucrase is used for the production of dextran, a commercially important product, with numerous applications in many industries such as food, medical, ph...
ANSA KHALID, UZMA HAMEED* AND IKRAM-UL-HAQ
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Dextransucrase is used for the production of dextran, a commercially important product, with numerous applications in many industries such as food, medical, ph...
MUHAMMAD WAHEED MUSHTAQ1*, NAUMAN JAMIL KHAN1, NAVEED ASLAM DOGAR1, AISHA HAMEED2, ABDUL HAMEED2, MALIK ADIL2, HAROON IFTHIKHAR3 & SAIRA ISHAQ4
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Leafy vegetables (LVs) have health promoting phytochemicals and are rich source of many nutrients such as Vitamin C (Vit. C). The aim of this study was to desi...
MONIS HUSSAIN SHAH1*, RIAZ UR REHMAN2, RIAZ ALI SHAH1, RIZWAN RAFIQUE3, MUHAMMAD USMAN4, SAJIDA BIBI5 AND SADIA YASEEN6
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Gerbera is an important cut flower that is famous for its attractive and wonderful colors. The gerbera is produced in all around the globe especially in South ...
MUHAMMAD MUDASSAR SHAHZAD1*, FATIMA KHALID1, MEHWISH FAHEEM2, SYED ZAKIR HUSSAIN SHAH3, SANA BASHIR1 & SYED MUHAMMAD KHAN1
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Taurine (Tau) is vital compound that is limited to oilseed based diets and its inclusion is essential in aquafeeds particularly when low fishmeal levels are us...
USMAN AHMAD*1, AMTUL JAMIL SAMI1, MADEEHA KARAMAT1, MADEEHA KHALID1, FAIZAN NAEEM2 & MUHAMMAD JAMIL YOUSAF3
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Transdermal drug delivery seems to be overwhelming and alternative to other means of drug delivery via oral or intravenous. To treat the diabetes mellitus and ...
SYED ALI RAZA1, MUHAMMAD WASEEM MUMTAZ2*, AYOUB RASHID CH1, ABDUL WAHEED1, JAMES WILLIAM3 & MUHAMMAD ARSHAD1
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The present study describes the antioxidant and pancreatic lipase inhibitory properties of different hydroethanolic leaf extracts of Conocarpus lancifolius<...
Zubair Ali, Muhammad Sohail*, Yasir Ameen, Hamidullah, Ishtiaq Ahmed and Mehwish Malik
... mode Ultrasonography in order to improve the economics of the farmer through decreasing calving interval and improvement of fertility and conception rate. Out of total cows (n=261) observed, 79% of the cows were found positive for various reproductive disorders, whereas 21% of cows were found normal. Overall occurrence of reproductive disorders was higher (52%) in multiparous cows (4th ca...
Hemayet Hossain1, Md. Masud Parvej1*, Khadiza Akter Brishty3, Muhammad Ali4, Junayed Ahmed4, Asibul Hasan4, Rubel Miah4, Md. Piplu Mia4, Saad Muhammad Rafe-Ush-Shan4, Md. Nazmul Alam4 and Md. Zahidul Islam Khan2
...fectious diseases and disorders (IND) in ruminants throughout the year 2021 in Bangladesh. A total of 755 selected clinical cases were recorded, of which 450 were cattle and 305 were goats, respectively. The selected clinical cases were diagnosed through anamnesis, physical examination, clinical signs, gross pathology or postmortem examination, and clinical examination using common laboratory techniques. A total of 28 infectious and non-infectious diseases and...
Ghulam Mustafa Solangi4, Zaheer Ahmed Nizamani1*, Mansoor Tariq1, Zubair Ahmed Leghari2, Asghar Ali Kamboh3, Barirah Rehman Talpur1
...t, Europe and Africa. In order to investigate the seroprevalence of CCPP in goat population of Sindh province, a total of 800 serum samples from four districts of Sindh (Thatta, Tharparkar, Jamshoro and Larkana) representing four agro-ecological zones of Sindh were examined by using c-ELISA. The overall seroprevalence of CCPP in goat population was found to be 18.0%. The prevalence of CCPP varied significantly (p<0.001) in the four districts. It was found h...
Hanaa M. Abdelkhalek1, Hanan E. Nagib1, Randa S. Elias1, Saad S. Mansour1, Walid S. Mousa2*
...nvolved in veterinary disorders including clinical mastitis in buffaloes. This study aimed to investigate the antibiogram pattern and synergistic effect of amikacin and norfloxacin against resistant P. aeruginosa isolates from mastitis origin. In addition, detection of some virulence and antibiotics resistance genes. Two hundred buffaloes were examined and sixty mastitis milk samples were collected from clinical cases from the period from October 2021 until Ma...
Khitam J. Yahya*, Mohammed T. S. Al-Zubaidi
...sing gastrointestinal disorders in various hosts worldwide. The current study was undertaken to study the biology of Cryptosporidium meleagridis and examine the anti-Cryptosporidial efficacy of curcumin in experimentally infected quails compared with that of paromomycin. This study carries out from September 2022 to January 2023 in Baghdad city, Iraq. Oocysts were isolated from naturally infected quails identified as Cryptosporidium meleagridis and used as a s...
Lubna Anjum Minhas, Abdul Samad Mumtaz*, Muhammad Kaleem, Rooma Waqar and Jamila Annum
...orded that belonged to 4 orders, 11 families, and 14 genera. Clamydomonas reinardtii, Acutodesmus obliquus and Cosmarium isthmocondrum are new record from Pakistan. Among identified taxa, Scenedesmus was the dominant genus with 8 species and their contribution was 26.6%. The 2nd most dominant genus was Cosmarium with 6 species and their contribution was 20%. The other genera Chlorococcum, Ankistrodesmus, Coelastrum, and Closterium were (6.6%). Some genera repr...
Tanvir Ahmed1, Sachchidananda Das Chowdhury1, Bibek Chandra Roy1Shubash Chandra Das1*, Khan Md. Shaiful Islam2, Bipul Chandra Ray1, Sukumar Saha3
...dowed by alternatives in order to minimize any lasting effects, combat microbial resistance, and preserve productivity. The study was aimed to investigate the influence of a prebiotic (PB), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) enriched with β-glucans, and an antibiotic growth promoter (AGP) on growth performance, intestinal microbial load, and immune response in broiler chickens. A total of 450 Cobb-500 unsexed DOCs were divided in response to the treatment into...
Wuritunashun*, Burenbatu, Narenqiqige, Jiuguniang, Eerdunduleng, Shuanglian Wang, Cuiqin Gong, Hashengaowa, Huizhi Jin, Baiwurihan and Chunhaizi
...culitis, is an immune disorder that is predominantly seen in children (8–20/100000 each year) worldwide. It is characterized by inflammation and bleeding of tiny blood vessels in the skin, joints, intestines, and kidneys. The most distinctive characteristic of this type of vasculitis is a purple rash that often affects the thighs and buttocks. The Zhenbao pill, containing several medicinally important compounds, has been found to be effective against a v...
Luqman1*, Zahid Hussain2, Tamana Bakht3, Fazli Wahab1, Miftah-ud-Din1, Haroon Khan2, Imran Shinwari1, Ata Ullah1, Liaqat Khan1 and Sara Hidayat4
...e Rabi season of 2014 in order to figure out the influence of different cropping patterns (sowing directions) and weed control practices on onion crop. A two factorial RCBD experimental design was used for the experiment replicated three times. Factor A was termed as the cropping pattern (or sowing direction) with two levels (i.e. North-South and East-West), while the factor B included the treatments of Rumex crispus as mulch, Euphorbia helioscopia as mulch, w...
Jihan Abd Wahab, Nur Bahiah Mohamed Haris* and Jasmin Arif Shah
Syed Muhammad1*, Badar Naseem Siddiqui2, Farhat Ullah Khan1, Muhammad Adnan3, Sami Ullah3 and Nawab Khan4
... technical efficiency in order to increase agricultural productivity and subsequently the socio-economic status of the rural community of the KP province....
Nawfal Hammadi Jasim1, Yasmeen Jassim Mohammed2 , Jala Amir Salman Alahmed1, Majdy Faisal Majeed3*
...deficit hyperactivity disorder is Methylphenidate hydrochloride (MPH) or Retalin (the commercial name) . Objective: The effects of MPH on adult male rats have been evaluated in this study. Materials and methods: receiving an oral dose (2 daily MPH doses), represented by Group 1 (5 mg/kg/day in a 5% glucose solution), Group 2 received daily dosages of methylphenidate in escalating amounts (5, 8, 12, and 16 mg/kg/day in a 5% of sucrose solution), as well as Gro...
Saima Mehar1, Amtul Sami2 and Erum Iqbal3*
... According to decreasing order, MeOH>BuOH>Chloroform>ether >Hexane, all fractionates showed positive reactivity and potential....
Javeria Khourshid*, Ghulam Abbas, Shahnaz Rashid, Asma Fatima* and Abdul Malik
...text-align: justify;">In order to analyze the effects of OxyAqua organic product used for fish health management, improve water quality and high survival ratio, research was conducted for 60 days in seawater cemented cisterns at CEMB, University of Karachi. Two commercially important fish species (Orechromis niloticus and Acanthopagrus berda) were used for this study and kept in two different treatment tanks with their replicates (n=10 each) designated as T1= ...
Fakhra Nazir1*, Sahar Fazal1 and Fakhar-i-Abbas2
...ly diverse family of the order Passeriformes (Aves), generally well identified by barcodes globally. Species identification and phylogenetic analysis through DNA barcodes using mitochondrial COI gene (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) was aimed for samples of birds collected from different regions of Pakistan. Mitochondrial DNA was successfully extracted from keel tissue and Folmer region of COI gene comprising ~650 bps was amplified using universal primers and ...
Munir Ahmad1, Abdul Ghaffar1, Riaz Hussain2* and Rifat Ullah Khan3*
...ysical and behavioral disorders were noted in terms of time and concentration manners. In comparison to control fish, the hematological profile including lymphocyte, hemoglobin erythrocyte and monocyte counts, was considerably (p < 0.05) lower. The final results on the serum biochemical parameters showed significantly (p < .05) higher concentrations of liver biochemical profile, biomarkers of kidneys, triglyceride, glucose, and cholesterol in fish treate...
Skenndri Safae1*, Charrat Nadia2, Jmiai Mehdi3, Nassik Saadia1
...ame production cycle. In order to evaluate the gut health of the broilers, we used a panel of tools and techniques, ranging from numerical tools used to gather data from the farms to bacteriological material geared toward pathogens detection. The microscopic lesions found on most of the farms of the P group on day 35 indicated the ongoing of a regenerative process, contrarily to the farms of the D and G groups, in which the guts still underwent inflammation on...
Saqib Mehmood1, Bushra Allah Rakha1*, Muhammad Sajjad Ansari2, Ali Akhter1, Nadeem Munawar1 and Tariq Mahmood1
...nvestigated in following order of dominance: Bandicota bengalensis > Nesokia indica >Tatera indica > Golunda ellioti. Maximum (P<0.05) rodent density was found in reference sites (2.03 ± 0.04 ha-1) as compared to treated sites (1.18 ± 0.05 ha-1). However, at each study sites, maximum activity (P <0.05) of rodents was recorded inside of the crop field (1.75 ± 0.02 ha-1) in relation to the boundary (1.46 ± 0.04 ha-1) of...
Asifa Hameed1*, Haider Karar2, Abdul Ghaffar1, Abid Hameed Khan1, Muhammad Mubashir1 and Ghulam Mustafa1
...The other insects in the order of abundance were house flies, syrphid flies, native drones, zebra flies, stingless bees, bumble bee, wild bees, and flesh flies. Honey bees Apis florea can be utilized as the pollinator but honey bee species A. dorsata, and A. melliferae visitation was almost negligible. The total value of insect pollination was estimated as 1299 million dollars. Overall, this is the first study describing the role of pollinators in successful f...
Altaf Ur Rahman1, Muhammad Ajmal Khan2*, Ali Hazrat3, Awais Farid4, Muhammad Yahya3* and Inam Ullah5
...sted bacterial strain in order of P. aeruginosa > E. coli > S. typhi > MRSA comparable to vancomycin. The highest percent mean growth inhibition (MGI) was observed against P. aeruginosa of 90.5±4.3 compared to vancomycin (61.26±6.31). The Zone of Inhibition (ZOI) noted against P. aeruginosa was 20 mm compared to vancomycin (17 mm). The quantitative test antioxidant activity of the methanolic fraction of C. jacquemontii at 250 µg/ml...
Abdullah*, Imtiaz Khan, Muhammad Ishfaq Khan, Muhammad Ibrahim and Muhammad Fawad
...uctivity in Pakistan. In order to highlight the most significant and challenging weeds of the chickpea crop in the southern regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, during the Rabi season 2022. Five chickpea growing regions were selected in chickpea growing area of district Karak. The quadrate method was used to determine the relative weed density. The data were recorded on density (%), relative density (%), frequency (%), relative frequency (%) and importance...
Shujaullah Khan1, Zahid Hussain1*, Haroon Khan1 and Omer Suha Uslu2
...crop in the long run. In order to assess the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on wheat crop in comparison with certain synthetic herbicides, a field experiment was designed in the Farm of the University of Agriculture Peshawar, in the wheat growing season of 2020-21. A Randomized Complete Block design (RCBD) was used for the layout of the experiment, keeping four replications. The experiment consisted of six different treatments including three herbicide...
Farheen Shafique1, Shaukat Ali2*, Mahreen ul Hassan3, Saiqa Andleeb1
...e most common genetic disorder of the time. In Pakistan, around 1–4 per 1000 infants is diagnosed with the disease making it one of the high-risk countries in the world. This study was aimed to quantify the public’s awareness, attitude, perception and prevention among the population of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. A descriptive cross-sectional was conducted from Mar-Sep 2021. Participants were selected through random sampling and questioned face to face...
Amna Mushtaq, Asia Bibi* and Nahid Kausar
....3% vs. 6.7%), eating disorders (18.1% vs. 1.3%), marital maladjustment (27.5% vs. 5.3%), poor quality of life (35.3% vs. 3.3%) and migraine (55.4% vs. 10.7%) was significantly high in PCOS women as compared to controls (p<0.001). Infertility was significantly linked to psychotic implications and PCOS female (p<0.001). So, infertile PCOS patients were more depressed and anxious as compared to fertile. Infertility, especially primary infertility represent...
Maryam Beheshti1, Mohammad Reza Taheriyan2*, Sikander Shahzad3, Memoona Siddique4, He Tianwei5, Muhammad Farooq5*, Huzaifa Kashif6 and Naila Ilyas7*
... of their body weight in order to study the effects of various treatments on their blood parameters. Blood tests were used to investigate these parameters. Based on the results, all three oils-hemp, soybean, and palm-had the same refractive index (1.46) and showed no statistically significant different (P<0.05). Palm oil had a saponification index of 202 mg/g and a peroxide time of 5.8 hours compared to hemp and soybean oil. The greatest ionic index was fou...
Kinza Javed1, Muhammad Ali1, Waqas Farooq2, Majeeda Rasheed1*, Farkhanda Yasmin3, Samiya Rehman3, Sadaf ul Hira1 and Jawad Ali3
...-acute systemic viral disorder of buffalo and cattle. It is recently discovered disease of cattle which is putting a negative impact on economy of dairy industry in Asia. The rounded Nodules on skin is the early symptom of LSD in clinical investigation. The nodules in the mucous membranes of nose and mouth, subcutaneous edema, emaciation, and exaggerated lymphadenopathy are additional clinical symptoms of this disease. Mortality rates is about 3 % in endemic r...
Vui Van Nguyen1, Samorn Ponchunchoovong2, Sajeera Kupittayanant3, Pakanit Kupittayanant2*
...um gratissimum leaves in order to prolong the viability of chilled dog sperm. The sperm’s characteristics were assessed using an automated sperm analyzer and a confocal microscope to analyze motility and membrane properties, respectively. Additionally, malondialdehyde production was measured to evaluate lipid peroxidation capacity. The results revealed that incorporating essential oils at concentrations under 100 µg/ml in semen extenders had a posi...
Abdul Hadi, Muhammad Rais*, Ifrah Muddassir, Abdullah Tasib, Maria Zafar and Sumbul Gill
...iduals of 83 species (12 orders, 38 families) were recorded from the National Park. The hiking trails (74 species, 5219 individuals) were found to be more diverse followed by undisturbed forest (60 species, 3377 individuals) while urban areas (41 species, 3699 individuals) were least diverse. The bird abundance (number of individuals and encounter rate) was significantly different among the studied habitats. The encounter rate is provided as an index of monito...
Yao Xixi1, Zhou Rui2* and Ma Yinshan3
... analysis was studied in order to find out the influence of forage and rumen fluid parameters on the content of CLA in milk of grazing yak. The results showed that the phenological phases significantly affected the content of lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, total fatty acid, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and total volatile fatty acid (tvfa) (P<0.05), and these were significantly higher in floweri...
Asim Zubair1*, Anam Farid Chishtti2, Zohaib Atta Mehdie3, Aamna Arshad3, Ghulam Akbar Malik4 and Iffat Batool5
...al pens, and milking. In order to ascertain the involvement of women in livestock husbandry, a survey was carried out in the area of Dera Ghazi Khan. A well-structured questionnaire was utilized to collect data from female respondents during face-to-face interviews, a random selection approach was employed to choose a sample of 100 livestock farm homes from the research area. To gauge the level of women’s participation, a composite score was created, and...
Sagir Hussain1, Erum Iqbal2*, Nasira Kazi2, Sher Wali Khan1, Qamar Abbas1 and Abdul Razaq1
...species belonging to the order Tylenchida as new geographical records for Pakistan. Hemicycliophora pyri n. sp., is characterized by the broadly rounded lip region with two indistinct annuli, closely fitting sheath with 231-247 body annuli, stylet 95-100 µm long, non-raised and non-separated labial disc and gradually tapering long tail. Psilenchus vincigurrae Brzeski, 1991and Ditylenchus equilis Heyns, 1964 have been reported as new record species from P...
Amthal Ahmed Fouad1, Basem Mohamed Ahmed2, Momtaz Abdelhady Shahein1, Hussein Aly Hussein2*
...ein genes in the correct order. Twenty-nine synonymous and five non-synonymous mutations were evident in the protein genes. Deletions and insertions were observed in the intergenic spaces. It was highly similar to Egyptian RABV genomes and clustered within the Africa-4 (AF4) lineage of the cosmopolitan clade. It was submitted to NCBI GenBank under the access number OL314495. Conclusion: The study provides analysis for the 5EG-QH19 wild-type RABV genome, elucid...
Uzma Ishaque1, Erum Iqbal1*, Shahnaz Dawar2 and Nasira Kazi1
...ry soil nematodes of the order Mononchida, a new species of the genus Mononchus Bastian, 1865 was collected from rice (Oryza sativa L.) field in Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan, which has been described and illustrated. Mononchus oryzae n.sp., is characterized by its body, 1.508-1.528 mm long, lip region 23-24 µm wide, buccal cavity 34-36 x 16-17 µm with tooth apex located at 20-22% of stoma length and 3.9-4.2 anal body diameter long tail. M.oryzae n.sp...
Rusul Adnan Dawood, Hasan F.K. Alghetaa*
... of the physiological disorders taken place in the renal function, immunological response as well as the ability of the redox system represented by total antioxidant capacity and malondialdehyde levels to combat the toxic exposure of mercuric chloride (HgCl2) with or without collaboration of resveratrol (RES) supplement. Forty-five adult Sprague Dawley, 8-10 weeks old female rats weighing 170-220 g were randomly grouped as following; control group (C) kept wit...
Rida Ahmad1,2*, Zulfiqar Ali2*, Farkhanda Manzoor1, Usman Ahmad3, Safdar Sidra4, Irfan Zainab2, Muhammad Furqan2, Aliza Batool1,2 and Zaidi Zona2
...ividuals belonging to 16 orders and 55 families were recorded. Human settlements had the highest species richness (106) while Dry Temperate habitat had the highest value of species diversity (H’=3.71). The most abundant species were Common Myna Acridotheres tristis (RA=8.599), Carrion Crow Corvus corone (7.486), Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos (6.240). Two threatened bird species Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis and Western Tragopan Tragopan melanoc...
Abeedha Tu-Allah Khan and Abdul Rauf Shakoori*
... of neurodegenerative disorders. While the current understanding of its molecular mechanisms is continually increasing, the identification and consequently the roles of transcription factors (TFs) in the respective molecular events under neuroinflammatory conditions in distinct brain regions is still lacking. To address the said gap in knowledge, first we have identified the TFs specific to IL-1β a key player in mediating inflammatory process using online...
Gang Liu*, Na Xu, Zhizhong Gong and Jiahui Feng
... 7 phyla, 27 classes, 81 orders, 151 families, and 395 genera; those from the Caizi Lake geese comprised 7 phyla, 28 classes, 73 orders, 133 families, and 232 genera. Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Zygomycota and Rozellomycota were the dominant gut fungal phyla in the geese. The alpha-diversity indices differed significantly between the Shengjin Lake and Caizi Lake geese. The Shengjin Lake geese ate mainly Poaceae species, where...
Nabila Rasheed1, Shumaila Usman2*, Madeeha Sadiq3, Bushra Wasim3, Kanwal Haneef4, Hafsa Shafqat3, Tabinda Urooj3 and Saman Rashid4
...ws that the metabolic disorders like gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are not only responsible for several disease factors in adult life but also have adverse effects on perinatal environment as well as on the cellular properties of WJMSCs. This study was designed to determine the effects of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on proliferation of WJMSCs (GDM-WJMSCs). Mesenchymal stem cells were isolated from Wharton’s jelly tissue of normal(healthy) s...
Jaiperkash Moolchandani1*, Geeta Moolchandani2, Syed Mohsin Turab3, Nasima Iqbal4, Ambreen Rehman5 and Shaima Sultana Memon6
...ease is an idiopathic disorder of the extrapyramidal system, resulting in impairment of movement with tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, depression, shuffling gait and stooped posture. Among non-motor clinical symptoms, depression, anxiety, and apathy are the most prevalent symptoms. Although these are treatable but usually are not recognized at early stage in Parkinson’s disease, so the current study aimed to find out the prevalence of non-motor clinical s...
Xiang Li1, Zhijun Zhao1, Lei Zhang2, Jinhuan He1, Fengling Li1, Jing Li1 and Chunmei Pan1*
...text-align: justify;">In order to analyze the effect of fermented feed on the production performance, slaughter performance, digestion and metabolism of nutrients and economic benefits of piglets, this paper analyzes the effect of fermented feed (taking grape pomace residue as example) on the nutrient apparent digestibility of piglets. Through the determination of tannin content in grape pomace residue, the nutritional value of grape pomace residue was evaluat...
Xu Yun-Ming1*, Sun Zhi-Yuan1, Yang Jian-Bo1, Bian Rong-Rong2, Ren Hong-Lin3, Zhong Si-Yuan1, Cai Yu-Hong1, Peng Jing1 and Bao Hua-Xia1
...to humans or animals. In order to monitor and prevent the spread of B. cereus, a rapid and sensitive loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay has been developed to detect it in uniformly items. According to the entFM gene of B. cereus, four primers were designed, and reaction components and conditions optimized. Sensitivity was compared between optimized LAMP assay and the conventional PCR. The optimal reaction conditions of LAMP assay (25uL each reaction)...
Yuyu Wang1,2, Mingzhu Li 3,4, Gang Lin4, Xiaohua Guo5, Aihua Sun5, Hao Dong5, Qinghui Ai1,* and Kangsen Mai1,*
...tine and purified brush border membrane (BBM) of intestine were significantly higher in fish fed diet S5 than that of fish fed diet S15 (P<0.05). Specific activities of leucine-aminopeptidase (LAP) in intestine and purified BBM of intestine was significantly higher in fish fed diet S10 than that of fish fed diet S15 (P<0.05). Fish fed diets S5 and S10 had significantly higher docosahexaenoic (DHA, 22:6n-3), n-3 PUFAs content and n-3/n-6 ratio in muscle t...
Yousef Ahmed Alkhamis1,2*, Basanti Mondal3, Roshmon Thomas Mathew2, Ganesan Nagarajan4,5,6, Sheikh Mustafizur Rahman3, Md. Mostafizur Rahman7, Adnan Alhajji1 and Md. Moshiur Rahman3,8*
...reochromis niloticus) in order to find out any traits that can be expressed through compensatory growth. Equal sized juvenile Nile tilapias were randomly assigned into two treatments including control treatment (CT: constantly 0 ppt) and salinity treatment (ST: 25 ppt in 1st and 3rd month and 0 ppt in 2nd month). Each treatment contained 45 fish having three replications and the entire study was carried out up to three months. After each experimental month, al...
Nasir Ali1,2,6, Muhammad Ilyas2,3, Nazia Akbar1,2*, Gohar Rahman2, Shakirullah Khan4, Mujaddad Ur Rehman6, Abdul Samad5, Habib Ahmad1,2 and Bibi Nazia Murtaza7*
...ived a long time ago. In order to study the continuity in maternal lineage between ancient and modern people of the north-western province, polymorphisms in the HVSI region of mitochondrial DNA sequences of 56 ancient samples (1000-3000 old) and 303 modern samples from three different regions (Chitral, Swat and Hazara) were analyzed for hyper variable sequences of mitochondrial DNA for the determination of their maternal affinities. Our results revealed 25% un...
Abdullah Alsrhani1*, Aisha Farhana1, Shahid Hussain2 and Muhammad Ikram Ullah1
...evastating autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland, which develops due to environmental and genetic predispositions. Various studies have explored the role of 25(OH)-D deficiency in HT. Although vitamin D supplementation is suggested to improve thyroid functions, the mechanism of action of vitamin D on thyroid hormones remains unclear. The objective of the present study was to determine serum concentrations of thyroid hormones, serum thyroid antibodies, and s...
Akram Ali Baloch1*, Adeel Ahmad2, Kaleem U. Kakar3, Sara Naudhani1, Samiullah Khan1, Agha Muhammad Raza3, Imrana Niaz Sultan1, Humaira Zahid4, Saadullah3 and Shakeela Daud1*
... common chronic brain disorder. It is regarded as an enduring tendency to produce seizures. A type of epilepsy known as lafora disease is autosomal recessive progressive myoclonus epilepsy (PME) with onset in teenage years of a progressively stubborn seizure disorder which brings declining mental function, dementia and finally death within ten years after the first symptoms. Lafora disease is defective in two well-known gene...
Razia Sultana1, Shinawar Waseem Ali1*, Ghulam Murtaza2 and Shahid Mahmood2
... (84.8%). The numbers of orders, families, and genera to which bacteria belonged were 9, 10, and 15, respectively. Genus Stenotrophomonas had the highest relative abundance (48.8%), which was followed by Citrobacter with a relative abundance of 11.2%. The lowest relative abundance (0.1%) was exhibited by 2 genera Tepidimonas and Enterobacter. The relative abundance of 4 detected bacterial species was less than 1%. Three species (Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Pan...
Salma Jameel Askar
...ment of hematological disorders, and act as antioxidant. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of sub-chronic exposure to meloxicam, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, on hematological alterations and liver functions parameters in albino male rats and to determine the effects of Beetroots ethanolic extract in alleviation these alterations. Eighteen male albino rats were used, and they were divided into three groups of six animals each: G1, which r...
Khadija Begum, Azizunnessa and Md Ahaduzzaman*
...ifferent reproductive disorders. Results show that 12.41% (382/3079) reproductive disorders in does were recorded during the study period. The major reproductive disorders were anestrous (72.25%, 276/382), followed by retained placenta (6.8%, 26/382), and repeat breeding syndrome (4.19%, 16/382). Significant variation in prevalence estimates was observed considering the season (P=0.02) but...
Nabi Ullah, Abdul Samad Mumtaz*, Lubna Anjum Minhas, Muhammad Kaleem, Rooma Waqar, Amber Jabeen and Ayesha Hanif
...elonging to 2 classes, 6 orders, 13 families, 22 genera, were reported from the four different sites (E1, E2, E3 and E4) of District Bajaur Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Comprehensive investigation of four research stations revealed the phytoplankton diversity from Chlorophyceae to Cyanophyceae. All species were collected from the fresh water bodies during March spring to August rainy season in 2021. Collected Species were scrutinized taxonomically by using light micros...
Zhipeng Song1,2, Jialiang Xin1,3, Xiaoli Wei1,2, Abula Zulipiya1,3, Kadier Kedireya1,2 and Xinmin Mao1,3*
... and lipid metabolism disorders in db/db mice after a treatment period, so it has positive significance for the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Marein can act on SYK, VEGF and PI3K/AKT factors and change the expression of fibrosis and inflammatory factors in tissues by affecting their pathways. It can integrate with these and many other proteins, and the formed conjugates have a better therapeutic effect....
Muhammad Faizan1, Muhammad Nasir1, Muhammad Waqar Hassan1*, Ghulam Sarwar2 and Moazzam Jamil3
... in cowpea in descending order and least eggs were laid in two chickpea varieties (Sadiq-21 and BWP-white). Study of factors which could affect egg output of C. maculatus included seed coat color, texture and see size and among which beetles laid more eggs due to dark color of seeds while there was no strong effect of seed texture and seed size on egg output by C. maculatus. Study of other factors included seed hardness which was maximum in chickpea genotypes ...
Bilal Ahmed Shah1, Muhammad Avais1*, Jawaria Ali Khan1, Masood Rabbani2, Aftab Ahmad Anjum2, Muhammad Asad Ali2, Muhammad Awais1, Sohail Ahmad3 and Shahan Azeem2*
... was highest followed in order by FMPV, FMAPV, and FPPV. It was concluded that newly-prepared polyvalent mastitis vaccines were safe to use, protective, and elicited a significant humoral immune response in rabbits....
Aryaf Mahmood Sabea1*, Majida A. Al-Qaiym2
...te and adaptive, and in order to reach the best result of treating hypothyroidism and improving the activity of the immune cells , selenium must be given with the Levothyroxine ...
Mustafa M. Khalaf*, Rana A. Salih
...seases and autoimmune disorders are treated with cyclophosphamide (CPA). However, as a result of its serious negative consequences, including liver damage associated with oxidative stress, its therapeutic usage is restricted. The most potent antioxidant among flavonoid chemicals is quercetin, the aim of this study was to evaluate the protective effect of quercetin against cyclophosphamide. An explanation of quercetin’s hepatoprotective effects against cy...
Wen Xiong1*, Shengao Chen2, Dong Xie3, Qiang Wang4, Yanxia Li5, Lei Pan6, Xiaolei Ren7*, Wei Tang8*, Kang Chen9 and Ross N. Cuthbert10
...species, belonging to 15 orders, 38 families and 105 genera in the Qiantang River, including species listed as among the ‘100 world’s worst invasive species. Therein, 24 species are endemic to China and 14 species are classed as endangered by the IUCN. We identify and discuss habitat loss, pollution, sand mining, over-fishing and non-native species as the major threats to freshwater fish biodiversity in this system. Thus, we propose that protected ...
SHEZA AYAZ KHILJI1* ZAHOOR AHMAD SAJID2 & SONIA GHULAM BARI1
...of effluents were in the order of Cr > Cd > Pb. The growth parameters like shoot length, root length, fresh weight of leaves and roots, dry weight of roots and leaves, were recorded in the different concentrations of industrial effluents. The maximum growth was observed in 10 and 15% concentrations and minimum in 100% (industrial effluents). The uptake of metals Cr, Cd, and Pb was recorded after 15, 30 and 45 days of the experiment. The protein and chlor...
Muhammad Ashfaq ur Rahman1*, Saleem Khan1, Aurang Zeb1, Zia ud Din1 and Zafar Iqbal3
...rition therapy groups in order to urge them to follow one of nine pre-tailored diets designed to meet the nutrient needs of the group. They were also given food that contained the targeted nutrient(s). Control patients did not participate in these sessions and did not get food rations. Weight fluctuations were among the results of the study. Weight was recorded at baseline, 3 months PI, and 6 months PI. The average weight gain in the nutrient supplementation g...
Shakirat Bolatito Ibrahim1, Raheem Olatunji Aminu1,2*, Aisha Olushola Arowolo1 and Adams Sanusi Musa1
... 0.19, respectively. The ordered logit result indicates that gender, farmer association, cooperative society, extension visits, access to credit, remittances, and land ownership significantly influenced household dietary diversity status. In the logit model, age, household size, land ownership, cooperative society, extension visits, credit availability, land rights, and distance to medical centres are significantly correlated with food insecurity. Thus, policy...
Wafa Akram1, Shahan Azeem2, Shafqat Shabir1, Haroon Akbar1*, Warda Gill3 and Muhammad Imran Rashid1*
...e of captive animals, in order to prevent transboundary spread of Leishmania....
Erkinjon B. Shakarboev1*, Abat S. Berdibaev2
... genera, 25 families, 13 orders, 4 classes and 3 phyla, with 17 species (32%) from the class Cestoda, 4 (8%) from Trematoda, 3 (6%) from Acanthocephala and 29 (55%) from Nematoda. The highest diversity of helminth species among the studied predators was recorded in the Fox – 40 species. It was followed by the Jungle Cat – 27 species, Golden Jackal – 25, Wolf – 22, Domestic Dog – 20 and Badger – 16 species. 4 species from the...
Ehtesham Khan, Talha Ahmed, M. Irfan Anis* and Syed Ahsan Rehman
...t in a closed habitat in order to procure fast and healthy plant growth. It is a soil-less culture as soil is just the medium for the plant for nutrients ingestion. As nutrients are supplied in an air water culture in the form of mist directly to the roots. This type of farming uses the micro elements from the nutrient solution in the form of mist in a more efficient way than from soil. In this paper a goal of an automated aeroponics farming is advances in whi...
Sajida Batool1, Mubeen Akhtar1, Shafaat Yar Khan1,2*
... the common endocrine disorders in childbearing aged females. This study is designed to compare a few anthropometric, hematological, and biochemical parameters in PCOS patients with that of normal females including correlation between interleukin-3 and blood cell count. Patients with PCOS and normal healthy females (n=60) of same age group were included in this study following Rotterdam ESHRE/ASRM criteria. The parameters evaluated were; white and red blood ce...
Fatemeh Beheshti1, Maliheh Safavi2, Mohammad Reza Akbari Eidgahi1,3, Parviz Kokhaei4, Mehdi Vazirian5 and Ali Akbar Shabani1,3*
...cts was in the following order: ethanol > aqueous > chloroform. As the ethanol extract exhibited higher levels of total phenols, (29.78 ± 0.11 mg gallic acid equivalent /100 g dry leaves weight), flavonoid (19.9 ± 3.98 mg catechin equivalent /100 g dry leaves weight), and steroids content (6.85 ± 0.07 mg steroids equivalent /100 g dry leaves weight) compared to chloroform extract. In addition, GC-MS research showed that the extracts ...
Yanmei Wang1,2, Haoyun Li1, Lijuan Han1 and Wenkui Wang1*
...n (PH) is a metabolic disorder that occurs in broilers. It is characterized by pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure and a large amount of yellowish liquid accumulated in the body cavity, and has become one of the most causes of non-infectious death in broiler industry worldwide. The macrophage migration inhibition factor (MIF) and related protein and gene expressions in its downstream signal pathways need to be studied to explore the mechanism of MIF pa...
Faiza Naeem1, Muhammad Farooq Sabar1, Muhammad Usman Ghani2,*, Qurat Ul Ain1 and Qurat-ul-Ain Zafar1
...ronchial inflammatory disorder with high prevalence. In the current study, a list of significantly asthma-associated genes was created to identify asthma-associated pathways and ranking of genes based on protein interactions and centrality-lethality hypothesis representing that knockdown of influential node and edge leads toward the development of the disease. This ranking allows identification of the influential protein for the targeted drug discovery and the...
Agha Mushtaque Ahmed1*, Ali Zachi Abdul Qadeer Alhilifi2, Fahad Nazir Khoso1, Muhammad Ibrahim Kubar1, Tehniyat Naz Shah3 and Touseef Ahmed1
...h should be conducted in order to know the impact of artificial diet on FAW during lab condition....
Morcos Ibrahim Yanni1* and Eid Elsaid Abdelaziz2
...ypt as well as adjacent bordering countries. At the N and P genes level, the isolates bear little resemblance to the vaccinal strains (Evelyn-Rokitnicki-Abelseth, Pasteur, the China human rabies vaccine strain AG and others at this study) due to the presence of mutation sites. As the P gene plays a role in viral pathogenicity, the detected variance in nucleotide and amino acid identities of the P gene in our local circulating isolates over the years confirmed ...
Zhimin Wu1,2, Yaping Yang1, Arshad Zahoor1, Aftab Shaukat1 and Ganzhen Deng1,2*
...ify whether pulmonary disordered. Meanwhile this method also introduced the indexes of thorax, such as height, width and their ratio which were measured and/or calculated for further normalizing the differential indexes. Healthy pulmonary radiographies (n=76) were selected to scale the normal parameter threshold, and patients with respiratory diseases and obvious clinical syndromes (n=57) were selected as trials to evaluate and confirm the availability of thes...
Rabiea Pervaiz, Shaista Bano*, Sarfraz Ali Tunio, Abdul Nabi Jatt and Aisha Amber Soomro
...ibacterial potential. In order to circumvent the trouble created from rhizoidal colony morphology of B. pseudomycoides, a colony mutant of a strain showing strong antibacterial activity was obtained by screening/selection method and designated as B. pseudomycoides strain SB138m. The sequence of 16S rRNA gene of both wild type and mutant strains of B. pseudomycoides was comparable. In vitro test for antagonism of B. pseudomycoides strain SB138m against indicato...
Suneela, Sajida Mushtaq*, Sadia Maalik, Asma Waheed Qureshi and Moazama Batool
...ct Sialkot. Total of six orders such as, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera belonging to 12 families i.e., Acrididae, Gryllidae, Aleyrodidae, Pentatomidae, Noctuidae, Syrphidae, Culicidae, Formicidae, Braconidae, Coccinellidae, Staphylinidae and Chrysomelidae were sampled from district Sialkot. Coleoptera was recorded as most abundant order with 39% relative abundance. By statistical...
Wang Teng1,2,3,4, Li Chunhou1,2,3,4, Liu Yong1,2,3,4* and Zhu Ren5*
...ded, which belongs to 42 orders and 198 families. Compared with earlier studies, the species richness of fish in Beibu Gulf has decreased significantly, especially in large predatory fish and demersal fish. Now, overfishing, habitats destruction, pollution and eutrophication, and non-native species are important threat to native fish biodiversity. The results shed light on the importance of conservation and ecosystem-based fishery management. For better to pro...
Hemeida, A. A., Osman, M., El-Shahat, Mohamed, Hashem, Medhat H., Mahmoud, Amal and Dahi, Hosni
...count . Hematological disorders and ALT elevation were common side effects of treatment. The side effects were increased within group B than that of group A. Three random hepatitis C virus (HCV) samples from group B were studied for the diversity and sequence variations. Sequencing of 223 nucleotide of 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) was performed. In the phylogenetic analysis, the three sequences and 80 sequences of HCV different genotypes from GenBank were u...
El-Dougdoug2, Kh.A; Ghalyl, M.F. and Tahal , M.A.
...ig province of Egypt. In order to identi$r the Streptomyces strains, morphological, physiological, biochemical and antagonism testes were performed. The Egyptian isolates of Streptomyces were found to be a species ofcalvus, canarius, vinaceusdrappus, nogalater and viridosporus. The Streptomyces spp were grown in glycerol asparagine broth medium and the culture supernatants obtained were filtered through 0.45 pl filter. These isolates were tested in two experim...
...mmy bark disease is a disorder of sweet orange on sour orange rootstock in Egypt. There is an importance for hot-growing temperatures to symptom development of citrus viroids. The geographical distribution of the gummy bark disease in some world countries depend on high temperatures for viroid-symptom expression. So, correlation between climatic factors and gummy bark disease through GIS is studied. We designed a satellite map for the gummy bark disease distri...
El-Dougdoug, Kh.A.; Rezk , A.A.; Dawoud, Rehab A. and Sofy, A.R.
...ber of Pospiviroidae. In order to study the structure of CSVd-EG, it was reverse transcribed in total RNA from infected leaves and then amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using Pospiviroid-CCR specific primers. Purified gel RT-PCR product (â“199) was cloned into the PCR Il TOPOvector then it was sequenced. Partial sequence 199 bp of CSVdEG is almost identical to that of the prototype 199 bp Canada and USA isolates of CSVd with 96% homology. The sequ...
Abd Elwanis, N.D.; Abou El Khair, M.A.; Afaf H. Amin; Azab, A. and A.O. Abd El Rahman
...nd the amniotic fluid in order, where the allantoic sac route is considered the best site for virus inoculation and the virus was completely inactivated using formalin in a final concentration Of 0.1% for 18 hours at 25c0. Evaluation of the prepared vaccine batch based mainly upon vaccination of different groups of specific pathogen free (SPF) chickens using different doses and estimation of the humoral immune response using the hemagglutination inhibition (HI...
Abou zead, A.A., Ali, A.A.H.*and Abd El Hkeem M.M.
...mainly from digestive disorders. Mortality rate, as well as the characteristic clinical signs, , post mortem lesions and histopathological changes were recorded. Serosurvey of 80 serum samples revealed 5 (6.25%) positive for the presence of IBDV precipitating antibodies. 3 out 12 pooled bursae (25%) were positive to the presence of IBDV precipitinogen. Trials for virus isolation on the CAM of chicken embryos revealed the isolation of 3 IBD viruses from di...
Sahar, A. Youssef t ; M.M.A. Al-Dhaher 2 and A.A. Shalaby
... DAS-ELISA and RT-PCR in order to evaluate virus eradication. GFLV- and GLRaV-l-free plants (92.5 and 95 %, respectively) were obtained from the optimum size (I mm) of meristem tips (as indexed by DAS-ELISA). Of these, 85 and 87.5 % plants were found negative from GFLV and GLRaV-l, respectively, as indexed by RT-PCR. Virus indexing by RT-PCR was found to be a reliable method, thus proving the efficiency of this method (meristem tip culture) for GLRaV-l and GFL...
M.R. Abd-El Wahab l, H.A. Hussein2, T.M. Asfourl and M.A. Shalaby2
...of BVDV type I, II, and border disease virus. After 3 passages of the detected positive buffy coats on MDBK cells. no CPE was detected suggesting that these viruses may be of non-cytopathic type of BVDV. The present study confirms the existence of BVDV among camel population and raises the possibility of the presence of persisting infected camels by BVDV which may cause extensive shedding of the virus among camel population resulting in severe outbreaks. Also,...
S. A. Khalil1; M. El-Sayed2; M. M. El-Fayomy2; H. Y. Hassan3 and A. Zaghawa3
... a matter of interest in order to determine the proper time of vaccination. Twenty-five pregnant Frisian cows in the last stage of pregnancy were naturally infected with BEFV during the Egyptian outbreak in summer 2004. Four of them were aborted and excluded from experimental. The disease was diagnosed clinically and confirmed by the detection of BEFV antigen by Immunoperoxidase staining. The aim of the present study was to determine the efficiency of transfer...
Maria Kikelomo Adegun1*, Femi Godwin Ekundayo1, David Daisi Ajayi2
...are being researched. In order to better understand the growth, haematology, and serum biochemical indicators of West African Dwarf (WAD) ram lambs, a study was designed that included cassava peels ensiled with urea (UTCP) and graded amounts of Gliricidia sepium fodder (GSF). Sixteen yearling WAD rams with an average weight of 12±1 kg was randomly assigned into four treatments (T1, T2, T3, and T4) in a ten-week trial. The rams assigned to T2, T3, and T4...
Rizqan*, Hilda Susanty, Linda Suhartati, Azhar, Arief, Elly Roza
...eat dipping solutions in order to prevent mastitis occurrences. One such natural compound is eco-enzyme, which can be extracted from citrus fruit peels, waste materials, and other sources. The objective of this research was to prepare an eco-enzyme using citrus fruit peel (Citrus reticulata) and analyze its organoleptic properties as well as its inhibitory effects against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli pathogens. Eco-enzyme was prepared from citrus...
Tarek Refaay, E.A. Elshafiee, Hayam A. Mansour and Maha A. Sabry*
...e of gastrointestinal disorders associated with consumption of foods with animal origin. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the presence of E. coli O157:H7 in food outlets in some touristic cities in Egypt. For this purpose, 648 samples including raw chicken meat, cooked chicken meat, raw beef meat, cooked beef meat, food handlers and equipment swabs were collected from 54 food outlets in some touristic cities in Egypt. E. coli O157 was 1.1% (7/6...
Sukhpreet Kaur Sidhu1*, Gurkirat Singh Sekhon1, Sachin Kumar1, Tejdeep Kaur Kler1 and Anureet Kaur Chandi2
...9 insect species of nine orders were recorded, out of which five lepidoptera species had the insect pest status. Statistical comparison of population of purely insectivorous birds in Kharif crop (rice) showed significant difference as compared to Rabi crop wheat. Daily foraging frequency of each individual bird species has signified their year round ecological services as biocontrol agents corresponding to Rabi and Kharif crops. Results have shown that foragin...
Kouengoua Kouengoua Armelle Prudence1*, Yessinou Roland2, Nankam Chimi Roland1, Fotsac Dzousse Muller1, Kouam Alain1, Djuikwo Felicite1, Facho Balaam1, Awah Ndukum Julius3, Farougou Souaibou2
...rica are still needed in order to allow proper disease monitoring in wildlife-cattle and human.
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Elena Balarezo1*, Jose Luis Flores1 and Brendan Cullen2
...ements in dairy farms in order to adapt the systems to climate change. Historical and prospected climate scenarios were simulated by using daily climate data from the SILO meteorology database. The different handling styles and climate fluctuations of two farms were simulated using DairyMod. Using current pasture species and livestock, it first was modelled the effects of climate change in 2050 and 2080 on pasture growth, feed consumption, and milk production....
...A study was conducted in order to determine the fodder quality of some common pasture browse species among them. The study included the analysis of fodders in the laboratory for nutrient composition, the feeding experiment determining fodder intake and weight gain monitoring in the goats, and a subsequent in-vivo experiment determining the apparent digestibility of fodder nutrients of those browse species. Both of the experiments were conducted in Randomized C...
Rahmat Ullah Khan*1, Karim Gabol1, Abbas Khan1, Asif Sadam2, Waheed Ali Panhwar3, Hamid Ullah5, Muhsin Ali4, Gul Bacha Khan4 and Habib Ul Hassan1
... species belonging to 15 orders, 40 families, and 71 genera occurring in the study area. Among the three habitat types, the more diverse and abundant habitat of birds was Creek (51%) followed by scrubland (27%) and Bhambore fort (21%) with Shannon diversity index (3.701). The more diverse and abundant bird species were the winter visitors followed by resident species. The common birds with higher numbers were Indian black-winged stilt (375) followed by great e...
Abdeljabbar Nassiri1, Mouloud Lamtai1*, Inssaf Berkiks1,2, Hajar Benmhammed1, Sidi Mohamed Coulibaly1,3, Miloud Chakit1, Laila Ibouzine-dine1, Abdelhalem Mesfioui1, Aboubaker El-Hessni1
...h numerous behavioral disorders in later life. In young adulthood, a single 24-hour period of MD has been proven to produce behavioral changes such as affective and cognitive disorders in rats. However, the short-term and long-term behavioral consequences of MD have not been examined in detail. Also, the mechanism by which MD causes these disorders is far from fully understood. Therefore, ...
Mahmoud Hamouda1*, Ahmed Al-Jazzar1, Fahad Al-Hizab1, Ahmed Azab2, Mohamed Al-Hammadi3
... that certain uterine disorders may play a significant role in female buffalo infertility. A total of 340 reproductive tracts of female buffaloes have a previous history of infertility was collected from different farms in Egypt through the period of two years. Uteri have been visually and manually inspected as well as examined bacteriologically and histologically. Several uterine lesions either external or internal were noted in 78/340 animals (22.94%) as fol...
Jiaojiao Wang, Wei Liu, Qingqian Lin and Jianhua Hou*
... species belonging to 11 orders and 22 families of birds were recorded. Disturbances such as noise from aircraft flights affected the number of species and the individual density and diversity of birds. However, different areas were affected to different extents, and three areas on the same side were the most affected. Additionally, we found that the numbers of 14 bird species increased on flight days compared to those on non-flight days. Three bird species, u...
Oybek A.Abduganiev1, Erkinjon B.Shakarboev2*
... genera, 22 families, 13 orders, 4 classes and 3 phyla were identified in predatory fish from bodies of water in the middle course of the Syrdarya River. By their life cycle, 24 of the species recorded in predatory fish are biohelminths and 11 geohelminths. The helminths were recorded in predatory fish in the following proportions: Trematoda – 31.4%, Cestoda – 28.5%, Acanthocephala – 8.5% and Nematoda – 31.4%. The level of infection wit...
LAILA SHAHZAD*1, ARIFA TAHIR2 & FAIZA SHARIF3
...us disasters history. In order to adapt to change in climatic conditions, mitigatory measures should be taken to improve their living conditions. Deforestation should also be avoided to overcome and reduce their vulnerabilities. Community resilience can help in mitigation and adaptation at local level....
MAHRUKH SHAHID1, KHAJISTA JABEEN1* & SUMERA IQBAL1
... increasing the polarity order. These secluded fractions were further tested to evaluate their in vitro antifungal activity along with a reference fungicide (Mancozeb). Data obtained after 7 days of incubation depicts that maximum antifungal activity was observed in fungicide with 89% inhibition in the radial diameter of the test fungus. n-hexane and chloroform also effectively retarded the growth of F. oxysporum, whereas n-butanol and ethyl acetate fractions ...
ARIFA ZEREEN & ALMAS JAHAN
...ablished plant cover. In order to meet the needs of increasing population, the infrastructure such as new residential colonies, roads etc. had to be developed which seriously affected indigenous plant communities. This has caused destruction of local vegetation growing there and exposed land for colonization of invasive and exotic plant species. Besides this many exotic species have been planted as ornamental plants at the green belts. With the passage of time...
Adriana Beatriz Sánchez-Urdaneta1,2*, Gisela del Carmen Rivero-Maldonado2, Cecilia Beatriz Peña-Valdivia3 and Dianelis del Carmen Sánchez-Urdaneta4
...s study was conducted in order to compare the anatomy of the cladodes of the fruit-producing cultivars Floreadora, Moradaza, and Solferino of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.). The thickness of cladodes, cuticle, epidermis, collenchyma, parenchyma cell walls, and xylem walls was measured; the number of cell strata of the epidermis, collenchyma, parenchyma cells, xylem vessels, and calcium oxalate crystals (druse), were counted, as well as t...
*ARIFA ZEREEN1, ALMAS JAHAN1,SHEIKH SAEED AHMAD2 & ZAHEER-UD-DIN KHAN3
...odology was employed. In order to classify the vegetation data, ordination research tactics i.e., Two Way indicator species analysis (TWINSPAN) and Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) were used. Vegetation data obtained from forty quadrats was compiled. Thirty eight plant species belonging to twenty one families were recorded. TWINSPAN bifurcated the flora of entire study zone into two main communities that had been again separated into smaller i.e., sub c...
Inayat ul Islam1, Rooh Ullah1, Ahmed Zia2, Abdul Rauf Bhatti2*, Maryum Ilyas2, Sohail Hayat1 and Khabab Hayat1
...representing Pak-Afghan border territories in many of its valleys and villages. Such areas have a strong potential to come-up with important scientific records. Current study revealed four families, eleven genera and seventeen species and added new geographic range to Odonata fauna of the country. Among recorded fauna, family Libellulidae appeared to be the dominant group, representing 14 species, followed by family Aeshnidae, Calopterygidae and Coenagrionidae...
Wasan Ali Hasan1*, Manal Abdulkhaliq Ibrahim2
...piratory inflammatory disorders, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are prevalent conditions affecting the airways. Current study aimed to investigate the impact of famotidine on respiratory inflammation in rats. Thirty adult male albino rats were segmented into five distinct groups, each group comprising six rats (n=6). A_group (Negative Control) rats received distilled water only, without any drug; B_group (Positive Control) rats und...
Taghreed Jabbar Humadai*, Bushra Ibrahim Al-Kaisei
... experiment (90 days) in order to conduct biochemical, histopathological, and Immunohistochemical analyses. The oxidative stress result showed elevation in Malon Di-Aldehyde concentration in liver tissue treated with tetrodotoxin. The pathological lesion in liver of animals exposed to toxic dose of tetrodotoxin was characterized by dilation and congestion of portal vein, Focal aggregation of mononuclear cells formation granulomatous like lesion, Various form o...
Tianhoun Denté Fidèle1,2*, Meda Nãg-Tiéro Roland2, Zabré Geneviève3, Koama Benjamin2, Kaboré Adama1, Tamboura H. Hamidou1, Bélem Adrien Marie Gaston4
... should be considered in order to confirm their use by the farming community. ...
Mouhamed Zakiou Kolawole Adissa Raimi1, Ghulam Hussain2, Nousheen Zafeer3, Faheem Ahmad1, Muhammad Irfan4, Anwar Ullah1, Imdad Kaleem1 and Asghar Shabbir1*
...sis (MS) is a complex disorder, characterized by demyelination and loss of axonal parts of neurons in the central nervous system involving multiple genetic and environmental factors. Although, the demyelinated lesions develop throughout the brain, but more frequently are extensive in white matter. Currently, three different approaches are being utilized to treat MS, where synthetic drugs are the most frequently used but they do not cure the disease. Secondly, ...
Zhenkun Zhao1,2, Ziniu Alimo2, Xinyue Zhao2, Haifen Qin1, Buddhi Dayananda3, Lichun Jiang1,2* and Wei Chen4*
...ween some species of the order Passeriformes may remain difficult to resolve despite an effort to collect additional characters for phylogenetic analysis. Current research of avian phylogeny should focus on adding molecular markers and taxa samples and use both effectively to reconstruct a better resolution for disputed species....
Jin Jiao1, Jin Song1, Yuanyuan Cui1, Yilin Wang2, Yanling Li1, Jing Li1, Yan Su1, Xiaojing Du3, Yan Wang3, Guiping Sun3 and Minxiang Wei4*
...een fatigue and sleep disorders, anxiety and depression, assess the depression status and explore the relationship between myocardial infarction. In this study, 55.3% of patients had sleep disorders, 25.3% had anxiety tendencies with a gender difference, 20.0% had depression tendencies, and 33.2% had fatigue with no gender difference. Anxiety, depression and sleep disturbance were all related to fatigue (P<0.05). The resu...
Hayder S. Rwayyih*, Tahani S.S. Al-Azawi
Abdelghafour El-Hamzaoui*, Mouloud Lamtai, Laila Ibouzine‑Dine, Sofia Azirar, Mohamed Yassine El-Brouzi, Ayoub Rezqaoui, Aboubaker El-Hessni, Abdelhalem Mesfioui
... of neurodegenerative disorders. These compounds are also suspected of being involved in the induction of affective disorders. The present study was undertaken to examine the dose-dependent impact of GBH exposure over 8-week period on anxiety- and depression-like behaviors in male Wistar rats, administering daily subcutaneous injections of four different doses 25, 50, 75, and 100 mg/kg of GBH while a control group received 0...
Li Tian1*, Chun Wang2, Hailiang Li2, Haitian Sun2 and Chang Wang3
...text-align: justify;">In order to quickly control crop diseases and insect pests, chaos theory is used to optimize PSO, and CPSO algorithm is proposed. In the practical application of crop diseases and insect pests identification, CBPSO algorithm is obtained by binary operation of CPSO, and its performance and application are analyzed. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of CBPSO-SVM algorithm is 98.22% and 97.78% respectively in gra...
Thuong Thi Nguyen1*, Nhu Quynh Ho1, Thuan Khanh Nguyen2, Tuan Phong Vu Anh Vo3, Hai Thanh Duong4
...ld to identify health disorders and support early diagnosis of mastitis, ketosis, and abomasal displacement in the dairy cow farm.
Keywords | Alerts, Dairy cows, Milk yield, Rumination, SCR systems ...
Bilal Atta1*, Arshed Makhdoom Sabir1, Muhammad Dildar Gogi2, Muhammad Asif Farooq3, Muhammad Ijaz1, Tahir Hussain Awan1, Muhammad Ahsin Ayub4, Muhammad Usman Saleem1, Amara Nasiba1
...ion using light traps in order to detect pests early on. Implementing timely pest control measures based on these observations can help protect rice crops from significant damage.
Novelty Statement | The novelty of this study lies in its investigation of the effectiveness of light traps for early detection and management of rice insect pests. By analyzing population data spanning multiple years,...
Yanfei Cai1, Jiahong Feng1 and Wanlong Zhu1,2,3*
... with primates. Here, in order to judge whether this new experimental animal can serve as special materials in obesity research, we constructed an obesity model in T. belangeri by using high-fat food, then studied animal insulin sensitivity, blood pressure, blood biochemistry, routine blood, inflammatory response, and liver fat accumulation, etc. We found that T. belangeri had no metabolic disorders such as insulin resistanc...
Syed Awais Hussain Shah1*and Rizwan Ali2 2
...laria, fever, stomach disorders, mouth and throat sour etc. This research provides a lot of Ethnomedicinal knowledge which depicts men’s interaction with plants....
Muhammad Ather Nadeem1, Bilal Ahmad Khan*1, Sadia Afzal2, Ahsan Aziz1,
Rizwan Maqbool3, Muhammad Mohsin Amin1, Amir Aziz4, Amjed Ali1, Muhammad
Adnan1, Durrishahwar5
...inhibitory effect was in order of
leaf > fruit > stem. This study leads to conclusion that 8% or higher concentration of C.
tinctorius leaf aqueous extract may be exploited to biologically suppress the E. cruss-galli. ...
...al control management in order to get better crop yield and avoid environmental and human health hazards....
Farrukh Avais1, Anser Ali1, Hamza Javed2, Muhammad Saleem3, Tehreem Tahir4,
Muhammad Rafiq5,*
...leads to various skin disorders like melasma, sunspots, age
spots and freckles. Moreover, abnormal skin pigmentation is a serious aesthetic concern
which leads to psychosocial problems. Thus to achieve melanin inhibition, inhibition of
tyrosinase might be an effective approach. To this end we prepared methanolic (MeOH)
extracts from leaves and roots of Garlic Allium sativum (AS) and Peppermint Mentha
...
Muhammad Saleem Chang*[1], Muhammad Nawaz Kandhro2, Zulfiqar Ali Abbasi4, Jay Kumar Sootaher*3, Piar Ali Shar3, Kashif Ali Buriro2, Nadia Mangrio5, Zafarullah Channa3
...earch was carried out in order to compare the impact of purple nutsedge allelopathy and other approaches on weed management in barely at Students’ Experimental Farm, Department of Agronomy, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam for weed as well as barely parameters having eight treatments with three replications. The data revealed that the maximum weed control (91.3%) was recorded under T7= Puma super 7.5% emulsifiable water at 0.625 lit...
*Malik F. H. Ferdosi1, Arshad Javaid2, Iqra Haider Khan2, Muhammad F. A. Fardosi3 and Ayesha Munir4,5
...text-align: justify;">In order to find out various bioactive compounds in flowers of Ageratum conyzoides, the dried powdered flowers were extracted in methanol and the extract was examined by GC-MS. In total, eight constituents were identified in the extract. The predominant compound in the methanol flower extract was precocene II (59.50%). Three moderately abundant compounds including ethanone, 1-(7-hydroxy-5-methoxy-2,2-dimethyl-2H-1-benzopyran-6-yl)- (9.77%...
Reshma Sahito1, Nasreen Memon1, Aiman Amur1, Seema Memon1
Shabana Mangi2
... stink bugs belonging to order Heteroptera (Tribe Carpocorini). The Carpocoris Pudicus causes a remarkable loss to different crops and weed leaves and seeds i.e., vegetables, tomatoes, peas and crops, wheat, rice, sugarcane and weed seeds. The species is redescribed based on morphological characters, especially color, shape of head, pronotum, scutellum, antennal segments, and internal male genitalia and female genitalia. The summer was the peak season for abun...
Yuping Liu, Sige Wang and Tianyan Yang*
...its gene composition and order were similar to those of most teleosts. The A + T content of the whole mtDNA was 55.39 %, suggesting an obvious anti-G bias (16.64 %). The positive AT-skew (0.01) and negative GC-skew (-0.25) were revealed. The analysis of codon usage showed that NNA-type codons were used most frequently, which was consistent with the A bias at the third codon positions in PCGs. Three base mismatches were detected in the secondary structures of t...
Eman Ali Hussein1*, Majdy Faisal Majeed2
...n metabolic endocrine disorders is diabetes mellitus. Nephropathy may be one of the causes of continuous uncontrolled non-insulin-dependent diabetic mellitus (NIDDM). It has been shown that streptozotocin (SZ)-induced oxidative stress damages pancreatic beta cells and results in hyperglycemia in rats, which leads to diabetic nephropathy. The goal of this investigation was to see if Trigonella foenum-graecum (TFG) flavonoid extract could protect the kidneys fro...
Khalid Hussain*, Tanvir Hussain, Zahid Rauf and Nowsherwan Zarif
...ogy CDend ro & CooRecorder 9, Cofecha, ARSTAN and SPSS were used for data analysis, quality confirmation of time series, chronology construction and climate-growth relationship. Species is climate sensitive and showed dendrochronological potential; however, species is somehow responsive to the endogenous and biological factors as well. Strong and significant relationship was found between diameter and age. Time series revealed a drought period spanned betw...
Samin Jan, Mir Ajab Khan, Siraj ud din, Waheed Murad, Manzoor Hussain , Aneela Ghani
Ali Nawaz, Qazi Bilal, Anwar Ali*, Nowsherwan Zarif, Faizan Ahmad, Asim Karim and Atif Majeed
...ensively on farmlands in order to fulfill socioeconomic needs as well as climate mitigation and adaptation. The current study reviewed the social, economic and environmental significance of Eastern Cottonwood based agroforestry system. The current economic review of Populus deltoides shows that average net return and average net present value are 11121USD ha-1, INR. 793,579 ha-1 with benefit cost ratio of 2.45. The land expectation value and internal rate of r...
Muhammad Faisal1, Syed Makhdoom Hussain1*, Majid Hussain2,
Muhammad Zubair ul Hassan Arsalan3, Zeeshan Yousaf1 and Muhammad Amjad1
...ensive rearing system in order to assess the impact of Moringa oleifera leaf meal (MOLM) based diets on the overall performance of Catla catla fingerlings cultured in 6 earthen ponds. In order to formulate experimental diets, MOLM was used as test ingredient. MOLM was used to replace fish meal (FM) in the diet at varying levels of 0%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, and 30%, respectively. There were five experimental diets and one contr...
Viranga Kumudini Jayasundara¹*, Ali Khatibi², Jacqueline Tham²
...P management were higher-order constructs, and dog-keeping practice, behaviour, veterinary services, abandonment, and owned stray dogs were first-order constructs of the model. Structural equation modeling with maximum likelihood estimation via AMOS 21 software was employed. The study showed that RDO and VS were significant and positive predictors of SDP population management. This model can be used to better understand the ...
Chengrui Yan1, Jing Miao1, Jiantong Feng1, Liping Xia1, Yingying Ye1,2*, Jiji Li1 and Baoying Guo1,2
...(i.e., ~ two months). In order to identify the relevant factors affecting the genetic structure of T. clavigera, a total of 147 T. clavigera individuals distributed along the Chinese coast from 9 populations were analysed genetically on the bases of cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene. Analysis of the COI genetics indicated a high level of genetic diversity among T. clavigera. Our analysis of population genetic and demographic (AMOVA, haplotype networks and mismat...
Mubashar Hussain1,2*, Hifza Liaqat1, Muhammad Faheem Malik1,
Kiran Aftab1, Moazama Batool3, Razia Iqbal1 and Somia Liaqat1
... to 23 families and four orders were collected from DVNP. Barmala was reported as the highest abundant site (2815 individuals), followed by the Vatala (1832 individuals) and Deva (918 individuals). SIMPER analysis indicated an overall dissimilarity of Deva-Vatala (18.88%), Deva-Barmala (29.12%), and Vatala-Barmala (10.84%). The biological dissimilarity was evaluated and based on insect taxonomy indicated that Coccinella septempunctata, Sceliphron madraspatanum...
Sumaira Fiaz1*, Huma Naz1*, Tanveer Ahmed2*, Iqra Zulfiqar1, Khalid Mehmood1, Muhammad Jabbar1, Syed Qaswar Ali Shah1, Muhammad Usman4
...me other histological disorders were also seen in liver of Cd-treated fish viz. infiltration of sinusoid, dilation and increased hemorrhage in sinusoids, inflammation and vacuolation in hepatocytes and ruptured hepatocytes after 60-days of experimental period. Hepatosomatic index was significantly less in Cd-treated fish than control fish throughout the experimental period. Addressing this problem requires a coordinated effort among governments, industries, an...
I Ketut Puja1*, I Nyoman Sulabda2, Ni Nyoman Trinayani3, Ni Wayan Patmawati3, Made Rahayu Kusumadewi3, Putu Bulan Sasmita Dewi3, I Wayan Sukernayasa4, Anak Agung Gede Oka Dharmayudha5, Putu Devi Jayanti5, I Wayan Nico Fajar Gunawan5
...Bali cattle. However, in order to better manage the reproductive system of Bali cows, further research is needed to increase the prediction value to a more acceptable starting point.
...
Manahil Wahab1 and Anwar Ali2
...n District Charsadda. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a social survey was conducted in the area and information was collected through a semi structured questionnaires. Fifty respondents were interviewed in selected sample villages using multi-stage random sampling techniques. The sampling intensity was 0.1%. The results revealed that all farmers have planted trees on their farmlands. Poplar is the main species, followed by Eucalyptus, Bakain, ...
Fazli Amin1*, Naveed Ahmed2, Muhammad Salman3, Zia Ur Rahman4 and Mir Manzar Ud Din5
...leifera from three major orders such as hymenoptera, diptera and lepidoptera in this study. Among all, hymenopteran were the most abundant and species rich order as compared to the others. Five species viz. Apis mellifera, Apis dorsata, Apis florea, Apis cerana and Xylocopa fenestrata belongs to Hymenoptera, one species from order Diptera (Eristalis tenax) and two species from Lepidoptera ...
Salman Ahmad1, Anwar Ali1, Basheer Ahmad1, Nowsherwan Zarif1* and Saif Ullah Khan1
...ned from agroforestry in order to comprehend the effects of agroforestry practices on farmers in Tehsil Thana, District Malakand, KP. A structured questionnaire was used to gather the necessary data from 40 respondents using a two-stage random sampling procedure. According to our findings, 72% of respondents are farmers, 20% work for the government, and 8% are labourers. Poplar is the species most frequently used in agroforestry, accounting for 52% of all plan...
Muhammad Umair1, Nowsherwan Zarif1*, Zahid Rauf1, Anwar Ali1, Ghayyas Ahmed1, Basheer Ahmed1, Salman Ahmad1 and Saifullah1
...ve of intercropping and border cropping. Most farmers regarded agroforestry systems as most beneficial due to their ability to protect surrounding crops from dust storms. Age, education level, and distance from the farm to the market were significant factors in determining agroforestry adoption. In contrast, farmers who are older, less educated, and whose properties are located closer to markets were less likely to plant trees in between and on the b
Saddam Rasham1*, Sohaib Ahmed1, Arz Muhammad Umrani1, Sidra Jamil2, Tariq Khan1, Shehr Yar Nasim3, Safi Ullah1, Haseeb Ahmad1 and Asfand Yar Nasim1
...re asked questions in an order that was randomised. This allowed for the questions to be answered in any way that was most convenient for them. For the aim of our research, we conducted interviews with the people who took part in the study as part of the methodology that we utilized to collect data from the field. In order to collect the information that was required, interviews were carried out in both of the areas in quest...
Basheer Ahmad1, Anwar Ali1, Salman Ahmad1, Nowsherwan Zarif1* and Saif Ullah Khan1
... the local population in order to satisfy the needs of local people in District Buner for fuel wood, timber and employment. According to the study, firewood is the primary fuel source, and the local populations obtained 54% of their firewood from plantations, 24% from farms, and 22% from local purchases. The study revealed that 64% of respondents believe that the increasing usage of firewood in the area as a result of more trees means that people's consumption...
Pervez Manan1, Farhat Jabeen1 and Ahmad Zamir2
...(Suleiman range) on the border between Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), South Waziristan, Chitral, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jamu & Kashmir (Sherani and Urooj, 2019). As the potential economic benefits of Chilghoza to local livelihoods is worth billions of rupees annually thus economic importance is always given priority and its most important role of the maintenance and protection of vital ecosystem services (e.g. carbon storage and climate change mit...
Tanvir Hussain, G. M. Nasir and Ayaz Khan
...y, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in order to observe variations in structural features and evaluate technological properties to improve the quality the wood species for better utilization. Permanent slides of cross, radial and tangential sections of each wood species were prepared, observed under the microscope and data were collected for the frequency and dimensional measurement of different wood elements/ structures in each wood species. On the basis of results, it was...
ASM Helal Siddiqui, Md. Najmus Sayadat Pitol, Md. Akramul Islam and Sk. Mehedi Hasan
...e been dying due to a disorder known as top dying disorder, caused by different environmental, physicochemical and pathological factors. A study was initiated to increased yield by capturing higher genetic gain and availability of pests and diseases free sundri for sustainable production. All seeds were collected from selected 30 healthy sundri trees and seedlings were planted in three salinity zones of Sundarbans from 2010-...
Khalid Hussain, G. M. Nasir and Tanvir Hussain
...a was carried out in order to observe the extent of variations. Discs were cut off from the butt log of each species at breast height and data were collected for the growth rate and heartwood percentage. To observe variations in anatomical properties, the sample blocks were removed from the disc of each species and permanent slides of cross, radial and tangential sections were prepared and examined under the microscope. Data were collected for ring growth ...
Muhammad Yousaf Khan and Pervez Manan
...agement of eucalyptus in order to maximize economic benefits from these plantations. The study also recommends establishment of composite wood and paper industry in Malakand as plenty of raw material is available in shape of Eucalyptus trees raised in length and width of the district...
Muhammad Yousaf Khan and Raees Khan
...nomical and even law and order aspects of the society. The scientific management of forests has been evaluated against the existing ban on forest management and it has been concluded that scientific management is the remedy to resolve the issues associated with the forest crops, products, produce, disputes and resources in Pakistan....
G. M. Nasir
...ratively thin-walled. In order to increase service life, preservative treatment of wood before utilization may be necessary for all the studied species because of larger size or higher frequency of wood rays. Lasura, Shreen, Dhak, Tun and Ritha wood can be easily treated with chemicals and seasoned as the vessels are sufficient large in diameter whereas, Kao and Anjir wood may be somewhat difficult because of smaller diameter of vessels. Further, on the basis ...
Alam Zeb, Fawad Habib, Sajid and Tilawat Khan
...93688 in the above shown order of tenurial classes. Benefit Cost Ratios (BCRs) were 3.5 for Owners, 3.1 for Owner cum Tenants and 2.4 for Tenants at the same interest rate of 12%.The results of BCRs are greater than 1,so the raising of poplar plantations are beneficial in the target areas....
Ghulam Mustafa Nasir, Tanvir Hussain and Khalid Hussain Sulangi
...anatomical properties in order to find out measures for wood quality improvement before their utilization for making various products. Permanent slides of cross, radial and tangential sections of each wood species were prepared, observed under the microscope and data were collected for the frequency and dimensional measurement of different wood elements/structures in each wood species. On the basis of results it was observed that Kiker, Robinia, Lachi and Gurg...
Mubashir Jamil Khan1, Asad Abbas Khan2, Amir Saleem1, Lateef M. A.1, Muhammad Aslam1, Muhammad Mushtaq2, Abdul Ghaffoor2 Amna Btool1 and Arsalan Ali Khan1
...tive value of grasses in order to optimize their forage use. The research was conducted to determine the seasonal variation in nutritional value of five grass species found in Kherimurat scrub forest and rangelands. General observations of increasing percentage of all nutrients except for dry matter were observed from summer to winter season and then reverse from winter to spring in the major range grass species of Kherimurat....
Tanvir Hussain, G. M. Nasir and Khalid Hussain
...ate zones of Pakistan in order to find variations in their technological properties based on the wood structure. Results indicate that Ash wood grown in Kashmir and Quetta are nearly similar in strength and hardness in view of fiber morphological characteristics. Ash wood grown in Kashmir may be better in seasoning and preservation behavior due to its vessels frequency and diameter. Moreover, on the basis of parenchyma distribution Ash wood grown in Kashmir ma...
Ch. Muhammad Muslim and Sohail Sikander
...s in the last century in order to allocate different valuable alternative resources to the increasing demands of population especially to those communities totally dependable on forests and other non-renewable natural resources. Linum usitatisimum is a renowned medicinal herb of the world of herbaceous plants because of its multipurpose uses in different disease treatments. The study was conducted to elaborate the performance of morpho-anatomical charac...
Muhammad Nawaz Rajpar, Mohamed Zakaria, Ebil Yusof and Kamziah Abd Kudus
...visit different areas in order to feed, nest and roost for their survival. The objective of this research was to determine species abundance and feeding guilds of waterbirds at Putrajaya artificial freshwater wetland, Selangor Peninsular Malaysia. A total of 3720 bird detections that belongs to 21 waterbird species of 7 families were recorded using distance sampling point count method from March to December, 2009. The Purple Heron; Ardea purpurea (1083 ...
Ghulam Mustafa Nasir
...hat of grown in Sindh in order to observe variations and find out difference in quality of wood. Permanent slides of cross, radial and tangential sections were prepared and examined under the microscope for various structural features. Data were collected for the frequency and dimensional measurements of various wood elements / structures in the wood. Results showed that minute variations exist in general in average values of different anatomical features in M...
Rahim Muhammad Akmal Syed1, Hasnain Shahida2, Mamoona Wali Muhammad3 and Jabeen Farkhanda4
... as their composition in order to ascertain whether the soils were texturally along with nitrogen and phosphorous in order to ascertain whether the soils were similar or not. In case of agroforestry, the type of soil is one of the major factors for the classification of different suitable species of plants. The results of the soil analysis of various agro ecological zones and the consequent recommendation of the associated...
Ch. Muhammad Muslim1, Yahya Karamat2, Muhammad Shabbir Mughal3 and Imtiaz Hussain4
...s in the last century in order to allocate different valuable alternative resources to the increasing demands of population especially to those communities totally dependable on forests and other non renewable natural resources. Nigella sativa is a renowned medicinal herb of the world of herbaceous plants because of its multipurpose uses in different disease treatments. The study was conducted to increase the production of Nigella sativa by applying the...
Naveed Ahmed
...o the family Scolytidae, order Coleoptera. Feeding on the cambium of the tender branches, the pest infested blue pine in a range of 5-8% in Municiple Forest Division, 2-5% in Lower Topa and 3-7% in Sehrbagla Sub Divisions. Long droughts and warm winter followed by early spring helped these beetles to build up their population, particularly on exposed aspect and attacked even the green healthy trees. ...
Muhammad Afzal, Aqeela Mobeen Akhtar and M. Mahboob-ur-Rahman
...s can be found near the border with Rajasthan and the Sulaiman Range. The region contains Thar and Cholistan deserts. The Indus River and its many tributaries traverse Punjab from north to south. The landscape is amongst the most heavily irrigated on earth and canals can be found throughout the province. Weather extremes are notable from the hot and barren south to the cool hills of the north. The foothills of the Himalayas are found in the extreme north as we...
Naveed Ahmed, M. Hamayoon Khan and Mian Inayat-Ullah
...longing to 6 families of order Hymenoptera and order Diptera, were recorded on the blossoms of Paulownia in four time periods, 8-9 a.m, 11-12 a.m, 2-3 p.m and 5-6 p.m. Xylocopa fenestrate Fabr., family Xlycopidae, order Hymenoptera spent maximum duration on the blossoms. Among honeybees, Apis dorsata, family Apidae, order Hymenoptera was fo...
G. M. Nasir
...s an important factor....
Ghulam Mustafa Nasir, Noreen Fatima and Kanwar Muhammad Suleman
...gical characteristics....
Mohammad Khan
... in its edible seeds. In order to bring chalghoza pine under clonal propagation at par with other fruit crops, efforts were made to graft scion-wood of this species on root stock of chir pine, which has proved successful. This paper presents results of two experiments conducted for the purpose....
G. R. Keerio
...ire special attention in order to obtain the desired success. The artificial regeneration process includes three phases viz. pre-abkalani (before the arrival of inundation water), mid-abkalani (while inundation water is receding) and post-abkalani (after complete receding of inundation water).
The extent of annual regeneration operation depends upon many factors such as, availability of the area, intensity of floods, availability of seed and, the allocat...
Nasar Iqbal and Naveed Anwar Virk
...V2, and V1 in descending order giving 2.25, 2.05, 0.60, 0.50, 0.37 and 0.22 %, respectively. Pollen viability by staining with acetocarmine showed that V6 had the highest number of viable pollens followed by V4 with 95 and 91.30 percent. Similarly pollen viability with iodine gave almost the identical results as that of acetocarmine. Pollen viability on the basis of pollen germination in various concentrations of sucrose solution showed that Langra and Neelum ...
Muhammad Arif Chaudhary, Muhammad Akbar and Muhammad Ajmal Khan
...basin were arrayed in an order of Nowshera,> Mardan > Swabi > Peshawar > Charsadda. The vector map for road network and major settlements of the basin showed that Peshawar was the most interlinked district than the other four ones. Image processing for drainage network depicted 8 large and small rivers / streams draining out eventually in to the Indus river. All the rivers/ streams were run through Charsadda and Mardan districts except the Shah Alam in the nor...
Nasreen Fatimah Rao, Muhammad Tahir Laeeq and Kanwar Muhammad Suleman
...he girth of the trees....
Klaus Euler and Zulfiqar Ali Qazi
...trend of degradation. In order to reduce pressure on forests as a source of income, improved livestock health could be one way to do so. Based on a recent survey, the local people loose a staggering amount of 42 million rupees each year because of the livestock casualties caused by various diseases. In 2003, about 10% of the livestock was vaccinated. This came to a net saving of about 4.2 million rupees. While comparing it to the net income of Rs.730,000 - tha...
Altaf Hussain and Shams-ur-Rehman
...rage number of secondary order roots (4.42 cm) were observed in March....
Mian Muhammad Shafiq and Umeed Khalid
...heat and millet crop. In order to confirm this general survey of Agricultural fields around Pakistan Forest Institute, Agriculture University, Peshawar and village Serdheri (Charsadda) was conducted in the month of April-May 1998. 1x1 m3 quadrate sample was taken after every 10 m length and 2 m inside the plots with plots without trees, plot having trees on one side, trees in the whole field and trees in whole field with barbed wire/fence. The damag...
Abdul Qayyum Khan, Bashir Ahmad Wani, Hakim Shah and S. Irfanullah
...watershed communities in order to assess the energy needs for consumptive (household and commercial) and productive purposes (rural cottage industry, agriculture). Questionnaire, interview and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools were used to carry out this survey. According to the survey results, firewood emerged as the largest source of energy used for cooking and heating. The consumption of firewood was 2.35 maunds/household/week. Annually each person ...
Hanif Gul and Mirza Hakim Khan
...amily Scolytidae, order Coleoptera. The main reason for the spread of these insect pests is due to stress caused by extremely dry conditions during winters of year 2000 and preceding springs.
The beetle population developed on the weak trees under moisture stress growing on warmer aspects and ridges with stony soil The stressed trees had very little sap which made them prone to the attack of above beetles The grubs of these beetles constructe...
Naveed Ahmed
...ect pests representing 5 orders, 35 families and 76 species were recorded during the study. Lepidoptera represented by 12 families (35%) comprised of 28 insect species (37%), Coleoptera consisted of 12 families (34%) had 22 insect species (29%), whereas order Homoptera represented by 5 families (14%) with 8 insect species (10%), Hemiptera by 4 families (11%) with 16 insect species (21%) and Isoptera by 2 families (6%) with 2...
Sarfaraz Hussain Bangash
...ients. Many plant disorders have been recognized as trace element deficiencies. Recommendations have, therefore, been made to use minimal supplements of trace elements for all chemical fertilizers to minimize the fluctuations and availability of these elements to plants. Amongst the micro-nutrient elements, boron is perhaps the most important and plays a very important role in soil-plant relationship. It has a marked effect on crop growth, both from the st...
Maria Mussarat, Amanullah Bhatti and Mehmood Elahi
...River was carried out in order to investigate and identify the extent and types of soil erosion that are taking place and to evaluate the risk of erosion in the study area. For this purpose, initial data were collected from 1:20,000 aerial photographs followed by field visits. The survey revealed that extent of the gully erosion, rill erosion, patches of land sliding, land sliding, land sliding and stream bank erosion was 46.31, 22.08, 1,00, 8.85 and
17.33 he...
Shams-ur-Rehman
... deserts of Pakistan. In order to
evaluate the performance of 24 species and seed sources of these genii, 2 field trials were established one each under arid and semi-arid conditions following RCB and single tree plot designs. The height growth data of indigenous species were compared with exotics.
Preliminary results have shown that under arid and semi-arid conditions (rainfall between 300-900 mm per annum) exotic species like Prosopis chilensis, P. alba...
Mian Muhammad Shafiq
...
Himalayan highlands, bordering Anatolia-Iranian Desert, Indus Monsoon forest
and Thar Desert (Udvardy, 1975). The palaearetic species contain a mixture of
those common to a large part of Eurasia, and with those with affinities to the
Middle East, Western Asia, Central Asia and Tibet. The rate of endemism is relatively and 11%
low (5% for plants, 4% for mammals, none for birds, 10% for reptiles for fish) but the blending of elements from different origin...
Hanif Gul
...out the trial period. ...
Fauzia Balqis Malik and Bashir Hussain Shah
... Eucalyptii in the above order....
S. M. Raidh, M. K. Hossain and S. Akhtar
...te of Forestry Campus in order to standardize an optimum container size for raising quality seedlings of Acacia auriculiformis and Chickrassia tabulatris. Five different sizes of polybags were tried for three months time in the nursery. The parameters of seedlings like total height, collar diameter, root length, root diameter, dry weight of root and shoot etc. were
measured at the end of the experiment. The finding showed that the polybags of T4 treatm...
G. A. Bajwa, R. Kehr and G. Zimmermann
...tion was reduced in
the order, B. bassiana (46.9%), M. anisopliae (15.1%)
and P. fomusoroseus (1.4%)....
Bashir Ahmad
...rketing developments. In order to enable farmers to achieve maximum economic benefit, knowledge about cost of production and returns from forest products is needed to make appropriate production decisions. Unfortunately, such information is totally missing about various forest trees in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir, where forests occupies about 27.1 percent of total area of 1.33 million hectares (Forestry Sector Master Plan)....
Sahibazada M. Hafeez
...ng trees.
In order to identify salt tolerant tree species which could be grown in such areas, seeds of 26 salt tolerant species were procured from CSIRO Australia, plants raised in the nursery and then out planted in the field trial during September, 1990. Three years survival and growth data have been analysed and better performing salt tolerant species have been identified.
...
Muhammad Arif Chaudhry and Altaf Hussain
...ala in an increasing order. Although the growth
of A. ampliceps was reduced appreciably but it showed a
fair degree of tolerance to the highest concentrations
to dieback injury. The higher concentrations (0.308%,
0615%) caused highly significant reductions in plant
height in A. ampliceps, A. lebbek, L. leucocephala and
A. nilotica in a decreasing order....
Raja Atta Ullah Khan
...ery raising technique in order to
obtain maximum number of healthy and standard
size planting stock per unit of area. Some
improved techniques have been tested in the
nursery of Faisalabad Forest Division for this
purpose and this paper describes the results....
Shakeel Haider Zaidi, Anwar Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Muslim
...utical
preparations. In order to develop regeneration
techniques of the plant for its conservation experiments
on regeneration and cultural studies were conducted for
3 consecutive years in its natural habitat. Standardized
techniques of raising seedlings from seeds or by
root-stock were developed. The plant was successfully
regenerated in its natural habitat. Suitable spacing
for planting and appropriate doses of NPK fertilizer
required for better gr...
K. M. Siddiqui
... available
resources in order to maximize social welfare.
Pakistan, after independence, was confronted with
numerous problems. After laying down the
foundation of certain institutions and setting in
order the administrative machinery the policy
makers resorted to development planning as early
as 1951. The initial effort was not a systematic and
coherent one. Nevertheless, it was a starting point
for developmen...
Anwar Ahmad Khan and Shakeel Haider Zaidi
... all- over the world. In order to
determine the possibility of its cultivation as a crop,
introduction and fertilizer trials were conducted for
two consecutive years at Medicinal Plants farm, Peshawar.
Yield data indicated that 3-cuttings proved better as
compared to two cuttings/annum.Application of split
doses of NPK at the rate of 150:30:30 kg/ha
significantly increased the yield of green herb as
compared to other doses.The mint oil content are
com...
Shakeel Haider Zaidi and Anwar Ahmad Khan
...ugs and sex hormones. In order to develop regeneration technology and its sustained supply, a
number of long-term experiments on effect of cultural
and fertilizer requirements on growth performance of the
plants were under-taken in its natural habitat. Results
are presented in this paper....
K. M. Siddiqui
...tinue in near future. In order to plan
for future fuel wood supplies, data base should be
developed through periodic surveys throughout the
country. Further, there may be increasing pressure in
coming years for conservative use of fuel wood through
adopting of ancient cookstoves and its replacement with
more ancient and economic fuels to improve environment....
Malik Muhammad Khan and David R. Betters
...y
problems. However, in order for such practices to be
adopted small farms must realize economic benefits. An
approach to determining economic benefits is illustrated
in an application to a typical small irrigated farm in
Punjab. The analysis first finds the most economically
efficient single crop and joint poplar-wheat production
possibilities then analyzes these possibilities under
typical farm constraints and requirements. In the case
study, the re...
M. Khan and M. Kleine
...
populated villages. In order to study the effect of
proper protection on the growth of Chir pine, a long
term experiment was started in the forests of Research
and Training Field Station, Shinkiari. This paper
presents interim results of the first two year's
observations, which give the progress of Chir pine
seedling growth. About a10,000 plants per hectare, which
are more than 20 cm tall, and sufficient to constitute
future stands of desirable densi...
M. Ayaz, J. A. Khan, M. Kleine and H. Duerrstein
... are briefly described...
Mohammad Bashir Khan, Pazir Gul, Muhammad Farooq and F. W. Khan
...ommercially exploited in order to
save the amount of foreign exchange spend on the various products of the said plants....
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh
...efugees from across the border created tremendous
pressure on the meager land resources of newly created
Pakistan. To give to the poor new comers out programme
of construction of canals, roads, houses and other
amenities of life was worked out and successfully
completed. Heavy machinery like bulldozers was put to
the maximum use to level the land for agriculture and
afforesation. Hither to unemployed young and the old got
job opportunities in mills, fa...
A. B. I. Igboanugo
...eft in
Petri dishes, in order to asses their rooting abilities.
After four weeks, when most of the un-rooted lignotubers
had started drying up, the lignotubers were assessed for differences in root number and length. The lower the
concentration if IBA, and the fewer the number of hours
soaked the higher the number of adventitious roots
formed. However, in higher concentrations of IBA,
rooting was achieved in longer hours of soaking only.
Root length in...
M. I. Shiekh and Sultan Maqsood Khan
.......
M. I. Shiekh and Raza-ul-Haq
...SA and China in 1980. In order to compare
their performance it was decided to start a study in Peshawar in the Research Garden....
Wulf Killmann
...en into consideration in order to achieve satisfactory results. Sawing and handling: remove stems from the plantation immediately after felling and convert them quickly - use tungsten carbide or stellited saw blades - apply large bites as recommended for hardwood - maintain saw properly - dip the timber in fungicide after sawing - segregate and stack the sawn timber in accordance with at least two, preferably three density classes - Seasoning: air season the t...
M.I. Sheikh and Raza-ul-Haq
... 20-22 years.
In order to find out the effect of spacing on the pattern of growth, a study was laid out in the Pakistan Forest Institute Research Garden in January, 1978....
Ghulam Rasul
..., family Bovidae and sub-order Artiodactyla. Its horns are rounded in the front instead of edged as that of wild-goat. In cross-section they are triangular and the grooving is very striking. In Europe, the Ibex is now found only in the Alps in a small area of Northern Italy, but it has been introduced to special reserves in Switzerland and elsewhere. In Asia, it is found in the mountains of Russian and Chinese Turkistan, Central Siberia, Kashmir, Chitral, Nort...
Mirza Hakim Khan Dr.
...hers stand in descending order of importance....
Adil Al-Kinany
...ncentration then this in order to
enhance the survival percentage of rooted cutting stiff further.
...
Raja Walayat Hussain
...small sized trees. In order to get an adequate representative sample for each diameter class, random selection of 20 to 40 trees was made from each diameter class having more than 100 trees. Finally 343 trees were used in this study....
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh
...he rest of the clones in order of merit were: P. euramericana I-214 P. deltoids I-90/60, 1-72/51 I-69/55, 1-18/62....
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh and Amjad Mahmood Chima
... tree rows grown on the borders of wheat fields has indicated that there is no adverse effect on the yield even from the areas quite close to the rows....
Ghaus Mohammad Khattak
...ulation. The recommended order of fellings in the P.B.I. may not be indicated in the working plan. The Divisional Forest Officer is expected to prepare a three years programme of felling each year and get it approved by his conservator or chief conservator. The permissible deviation is generally 10%. The intermediate yields are usually prescribed by area and their volume estimated from past experience. Adequately stocked Reserved Forests growing on steep slope...
Miss Munawar Sultana and Anwar Ahmad Khan
...oda vasica plants in order to identify,
evaluate the distinguishing macroscopical and microscopical characters of the crude drug.
Results achieved during this study are presented in this paper.
...
Bashir Hussain Shah and M. Ismail Chaudhry
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh and Abdul Aleem
...mir share the southern borders whereas south eastern, eastern and north eastern borders are contiguous with Indian held territory of Jammu and Kashmir. There are three administrative districts: Gilgit, Diamar and Baltistan. A Resident Commissioner is the head of administrative machinery. The main watershed runs southwards, draining into the river Indus. The river traverses whole of the district of Skar...
A. R. Beg
...the third on a field border. A few more clumps are also reported to occur in the lower Buner. These are the only known remnants of natural bamboo in the country. This new record thus extends the western geographical limit of this bamboo from Margalla Hills to lower Buner....
Jalil Ahmad Khan and Pervaiz Akhtar
... therefore undertaken in order to provide reliable data often required for determining its utility. The present study is just a beginning of the work on the mechanical properties of some of the relatively uncommon timbers grown in Pakistan. Although this study is based on the material from only one locality, it is planned to extend this work to material growing in other areas as well....
Anwar Masrur, PFS (I)
...d precipitous slopes. In order to provide numerical data of practical value to the hydrologists, the present trend is to describe the drainage basins and channel networks by means of quantitative methods instead of purely qualitative and deductive studies. The paper describes some aspects of morphometric analysis of Kunhar river watershed including stream order, bifurcation ratio, drainage density, constant of channel maint...
Raja Walayat Hussain and Muhammad Afzal Cheema
...rmers grow it along the borders of their fields and along water courses. The tree is also found in Malakand division, Gilgit agency and Hazara district and one of its best avenues is seen on the road from Abbottabad to Mansehra. Very beautiful specimens of the species are also found in Gilgit agency specially towards Punyal and Yasin side where it attains huge dimensions and seems to be pyramidalis variety. When the trees attain a diameter between 5 inc...
Ghulam Rasul
..., family Bovidae and sub-order Artiodactyla. The word Markhor is derived from the two Persian words Mar means snake and Khor means eater the snake eater. The legend is that Markhor eats snake which is killed by the powerful strokes of its hoofs.
...
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh
...ez, PFS-1.
Abstract: In order to standardise the size of the polythene bag and the number of perforations in it, an experiment was started in 1970 in the Research Garden, Peshawar. Different diameters, lengths, thickness of polythene were used. Miscellaneous species of Pines, Eucalyptus and Acacias were tested. On the basis of the data collected it has been found out that tube size 6 X 2.5-in c he s and 6.0 x 2.0 inches and with 45 and 36 Perforations of 1/8*...
Ali Mohammed Obayes*, Zaid Salah Hussein
Fatima Aziz Mahdi Al-Badry
...mation and structural disorders such as breakdown, death and absence of glomeruli with increasing of Bowman’s space. while these histological changes in liver were included congestion, hemorrhage, hypertrophy as well as necrosis of the hepatocytes. Conclusion: It was concluded in this study eating of Puma for long times causes renal-hepatic damages.
Keywords | Puma, (Super fat), Histopatho...
Syed Shahid Imran Bukhari
... a common respiratory disorder. CO2 is components of the air we breathe; type of house and room is directly linked with its concentration. CO2 concentration is a surrogate indicator for the assessment of IAQ and ventilation efficacy. Average indoor CO2 can be helpful to identify ventilation system performance. Data was gathered from 50 asthmatic homes with natural ventilation located throughout the nine administrative towns of Lahore, Pakistan. The levels of C...
Hina Ilyas1, Umar Hanif2, Anser Ali1, Zahid Hassan Tarar3,Hamza Javed4, Tehreem Tahir5, Muhammad Rafiq6*
...entation causing skin disorders like freckles, melasma and black spots. Therefore, search for new tyrosinase inhibitors is desirable. In present study, methanolic (MeOH) extracts from leaves, fruit peel and pulp of Citrus bergamia (C. bergamia) and, leaves and fruit of Ficus carica (F. carica) were prepared which were further processed for fractional distillation using ethyl acetate (EA), n-hexane (n-Hx) and chloroform (CHCl3) preparing total 20 extracts aimin...
Ke Sun, Guangwei Fan, Yujie Zhang, Ji Luo, Xiaobing Wu and Tao Pan*
...text-align: justify;">In order to develop a rapid measuring method for canopy density of Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) habitat, the images of the habitat are captured from 1 meter off the ground. Then, a canopy density calculating method is established based on an adaptive bimodal threshold segmentation algorithm. The accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated and compared with two methods based on Otsu’s algorithm and iterative algorithm, res...
Xinyue Wang1, Shengao Chen1,2*, Fangze Zi1, Jianmin Ge1, Desheng Chang1, Yong Song1 and Congxin Xie2
...s in the Tarim River. In order to study its population characteristics and improve the conservation measures, 940 specimens of T. yarkandensis were collected in 2018 and 2020 from the Alar Section of Tarim River. Otoliths were chosen as the main age structure in this study. Results showed that the rings of T. yarkandensis formed once per year from March to May. The ages ranged from 1+ to 10+, with 2.5+ to 6.5+ predominating in the total specimens. Among them, ...
Baby Nhor K. Ambel1*, Nneka Djen A. Matandog1, Neil Pep Dave N. Sumaya2, Florence Roy P. Salvaña1, Bryan Lloyd P. Bretaña1 and Ma. Teodora N. Cabasan1*
... ecosystem stability. In order to ascertain the fact, this study investigated the impact of different durations of monocropping Lakatan banana on soil health as reflected by nematode community structure. For the extraction of nematodes, soil and root samples were collected from various banana farms practicing monocropping for 2-4, 5-9 and 10-15 years. Farms with prolonged monocropping showed an increased population of plant-parasitic nematodes compared to free...
Shaofei Zhang1, Na Xu2 and Gang Liu2*
...16 phyla, 16 classes, 24 orders, 27 families, and 45 genera, with Euryarchaeota, Thaumarchaeota, and Bathyarchaeota being the dominant gut archaeal phyla. The results of alpha diversity analysis showed a significant difference in composition between the Shengjin and Caizi Lake samples, and orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) analysis indicated that geese were well-matched with their lakes of origin. Stamp analysis revealed a differ...
Fangmei Zhang1,2, Xiaocen Zhao1,2, Li Qiao1,2, Shibao Guo1,2, Li Zhang1,2,
Jian Yin1,2, Zhou Zhou1,2, Chuleui Jung3 and Shubao Geng1,2*
...text-align: justify;">In order to explore the mechanism underlying chemosensation in the tea looper, Scopula subpunctaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), the types, morphology, quantity and distribution of sensilla on the antenna were observed by scanning electron microscopy. The results showed that females and males antennae were filiform, bipectinate, respectively, which be divided into three segments, scape, pedical and flagellum that consisted numerous individ...
Komal Hingoro1, Muhammad Saleem Chang1,2* and Ghulam Sarwar Gachal1
Rumisha Raza1*, Ali Raza Awan1, Muhammad Wasim1, Shagufta Saeed1, Muhammad Tayyab1, Aftab Ahmed Anjum2, Muhammad Muddassir Ali1 and Sehrish Firyal1*
...oaching and injuries. In order to maintain ecological balance and food chains, this is very important to make strategies for conservation of these predatory birds. However, there is still uncertainty in their taxonomy because these birds are not studied well at genetic level. Morphological identification includes size, color, and body weight etc. which are crude and does not lead to accurate identification at species level. In order
Tanvir Hussain*, Zahid Rauf, Mansoor Ali Khan and Khalid Hussain
... Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . In order to conduct study, wood samples in the form of cores were taken from the district of Swat’s Shahpur and Liliani Forest areas. Using standard laboratory techniques, the collected cores were processed and measured for tree ring width. Cofecha and R packages, two computer - based programs , were used to statistically evaluate the data. The findings indicated that there was a notable rise in yearly precipitation between 1921 and...
Aura Oktiefa Adyantono, Sugiharto Sugiharto, Daud Samsudewa*
... several reproductive disorders, and poorer reproductive qualities. The research about the reproductive quality between two species showed different result. The aim of this research is to compared the reproductive quality of Bos indicus crossbred and their crossbreds with Bos taurus. A meta-analysis involving 43 studies on reproductive hormone levels, 25 studies on estrus activity and 65 studies on reproductive performance. Article search, article selection, d...
Hala Harifi*, Mouloud Lamtai*, Siham Ait Salhi, Fatima-Zahra Azzaoui, Omar Akhouayri, Abdelhalem Mesfioui, Leila Bikjdaouene
... tolerated toxic dose in order to establish a toxicity model. Weight gain was monitored weekly, and, at the end of the exposure period, the rats were euthanized and their organ weights (liver and kidneys) were recorded. Our results indicate signs of intoxication resulting from chronic exposure to Mn. Specifically, doses of 25 mg/kg and 30 mg/kg were found to be toxic and adversely affect the general condition of the rats. In contrast, the 6 mg/kg dose showed n...
Tariq Zaman1*, Fawad Khan2, Sajjad Ahmad2*, Alia Mehsud2, Atta Ur Rahman3, Muskaan Zaman2 and Sumaira Noor2
...District Lakki Marwat in order to investigate the taxonomic diversity and medicinal importance of weeds flora. A total of 42 weed species belonging to 20 families were investigated from research area. The dominant families in terms of species richness were Asteraceae and Poaceae with 6 species (14.28%) each, followed by Brassicaceae and Papilionaceae with 4 species (9.52%), Apiaceae and Solanaceae with 3 species (7.14%), Amaranthaceae and Polygonaceae having 2...
Hind A.Norii1, Adel M.Hassen ALZobidy2*
...ocrine, and metabolic disorder which is characterized by chronic anovulation, polycystic ovaries, biochemical and clinical manifestations of hyperandrogenism. This study aims to evaluate the effects of the alcoholic extract Vitex agnus-castus on body weight gain and possible alteration of reproductive hormones in letrozole-induced PCOS induced by letrozole in adult female rats. The negative control received 1 ml of 0.5% carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) whereas po...
Shorouq Mohamed Omara1, Ibrahim Saad El-Shamaa1, Emad Abd-Elaziz Abd-Allah2, Assmaa Abd-Allah Fathy3, Essam-Eldin Tharwat4, Mohammed Hamdy Farouk5* and Ibrahim Mahmoud Abd El-Razek1*
...t and apoptosis rates in order to substantiate the potential development of cumulus oocytes–complexes (COC) and determine the effect of LC in reducing the occurrence of apoptosis under in vitro maturation (IVM) conditions for buffalo blastocysts. The tissue culture media included a control culture medium and other three LC supplemented media (2, 3 or, 4 mM LC). All LC treatments had higher COCs percentages at the metaphase II (MII) compared to the contro...
Muhammad Zahir Shah1,2 and Syed Basit Rasheed1,*
...akistan near Pak-Afghan border. The disease burden has increased during the time of war against terrorism in the tribal belt of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. This study was designed to investigate various ecological and entomological aspects of sand flies in war effected district Khyber. Sand flies were collected from seven different localities of the district by flit method, CDC light traps and mouth aspirator. A total of...
Hafiz Muhammad Ashraf, Hafiz Abdullah Shakir* and Javed Iqbal Qazi
...h specimens belong to 10 orders, 21 families, 37 genera and 50 species. The family Cyprinidae was containing 13 genera and 21 species. Eight species (Amblyceps mangois, Botia lohachta, Botia almorhae, Coptodon zillii, Ctenopharyngodon idella, Parambasis lala, Salmostoma phulo and Psilorhynchus nudithoracicus) were collected first time from river Ravi Pakistan. During high flow season, Cirrhinus mrigala and Captodon zilli showed highest relative abundance 13.89...
Tahani Ahmad Al-Matrafi1, Zuhair M. Mohammedsaleh2, Mamdoh S. Moawadh2, Waheeb S. Aggad3, Rawabi Mohamed almuhimed4, Zamzam Alhuwaymil5, Aishah E Albalawi6, Ifat Alsharif7, Hailah M. Almohaimeed8, Fatima S. Alaryani9 and Mona H. Soliman10,11*
...a in mitigating liver disorders, emphasizing its promising role as a natural hepatoprotective agent....
A.M. Ahmed1*, R. Dutta1, H. Pokhrel1, D. Nath1, L. Mudoi1, R. Sarmah1, S.K. Bhagabati1 and I. Ahmed2
...ntified, divided into 10 orders, 24 families, and 52 genera. The orders Cypriniformes, Siluriformes, Anabantiformes, and Synbranchiformes accounted for 88.88% of the total fish population and the remaining 12.12% is being contributed by other orders. The family Cyprinidae was found to be the most prevalent (40.74%). Minnows and barbs contributed the most (30.49%) among the 11 common groups...
Shumaila Usman1,2, Irfan Khan2, Kanwal Haneef3 and Asmat Salim2*
...ree cellular approach in order to improve the cell-based therapeutics for diabetes. In the present study, we analyzed the effect of 2, 4 - Dinitrophenol (DNP) on the transdifferentiation of NIH3T3 cells into insulin producing β-cells (IPCs). DNP is a lipophilic weak acid that uncouple oxidative phosphorylation by decreasing ATP production. Cells treated with DNP were analyzed for the morphological changes and islet specific markers (MafA, Ngn3, Nkx 6.1, P...
Sushan Chowhan1,2*, Md. Moshiur Rahman3, Razia Sultana4,5, Md. Abdur Rouf6, Majharul Islam7 and Sharmin Ara Jannat8
...pt R and D strategies in order to stimulate growth in certain sub-sectors and reduce reliance on food and produce imports. Key R and D areas in the crop sectors include protecting arable land, implementing appropriate climate change strategies, improving fertilizer, water, and pest management, ensuring seed quality, developing a sustainable and dependable supply chain for producers and consumers, and allocating an adequate R and D budget. Finally, to eradicate...
Gunel Arzuman Ramazanova1, Gulnara Fakhreddin Abbasova2*, Khalsa Ibrahim Nasibova3 and Sait Engindeniz4
...ed as plant material. In order to infect healthy plants, samples infected with blister smut disease collected from the maize cultivated areas of the Garadagli village and brought to the Plant Diseases Diagnostics of Azerbaijan State Agrarian University, transferred to artificial nutrient medium and multiplied. In the study, the intensity of spread of the disease, disease severity index and yield losses were determined according to years and varieties. In addit...
Muhammad Ihsan Ullah2, Muhammad Hasnain1*, Muhmmad Luqman2, Hammad Hussnain2, Muhammad Tauseef2, Abrar Ahmad2, Muhammad Shahid2, Qaisar Abbas3, Mussurrat Hussain3, Ali Raza2, Muhammad Musadique Ahmad Khan4, Muhammad Kashif Nadeem5, Sajid Nadeem6
...sses in cotton crops. In order to identify an insecticide that could efficiently manage these sucking insect pests of cotton, the toxicity a few selected insecticides in the field have been assessed in current study. Six insecticides, when used alone or in a combination viz. chlothianidin 200ml/acre, spirotetramate 250ml/acre, matrine 500ml/acre, flunicamid 80gm/acre, imidacloprid + acephate 500gm/acre and dinotefuran 100gm/acre were tested against sucking ins...
Shahida Rashied1*, Ahmed Zia2, Riaz Aziz Minhas1, Sumera Aslam3, Abdul Rauf Bhatti4 and Ghulam Ali1
... Control. It shares its border with Indian Occupied Kashmir and due to prevailing of uncertain ground conditions in the past did not allow to get explore this area for the Odonata species complex. In study area first time detailed surveys were conducted for exploring the diversity of both sub orders of Odonata (Anisoptera and Zygoptera) during the summer season of 2018-2019. A total 346 specimens were collected yielding 20 a...
Syeda Rubab Zaidi* and Safdar Ali Mirza
...r laccase production. In order to select most potential laccase enzyme producing strain among different isolated strains, quantitative analysis was carried out. Results clearly indicated that Aspergillus niger isolated from soil sample collected from agricultural area produced remarkable zone diameter and culture colony diameter. The remaining strains showed variable results for enzyme production. Laccase enzyme production was carried out by screened strain of...
Waheed Iqbal* and Muhammad Faheem Malik
...studied taxonomic group, order Lepidoptera of class Insecta. In order to explore the diversity of the butterfly fauna, a field survey was conducted every two weeks from June 2017 to September 2019 in selected locales of the Potohar Plateau, Punjab, Pakistan. An annotated checklist of the butterfly fauna was prepared using a total of 1117 specimens of butterflies from 32 species across 22 genera, 11 subfamilies, and four fami...
Fasih Ullah Haider1,2, Sardar Alam Cheema1and Muhammad Farooq1,3
.... Herbicides are used in order to minimizet weed infestation, but the use of herbicides or inorganic chemicals against weeds is also developing resistance in weeds to herbicides. Despite that herbicides are also affecting the environment especially human health. Pesticides not only damage the human health but also pollute the air, soil, water and becoming part of food chain. One of the options to minimize weed infestation is intercropping of cover crops betwee...
Zahid Fazal1, Jaweria Gul2, Muhammad Subhan, Khan Sher and Qasir Ali
... either sharing 4.3%. In order to harvest the optimum yields of these crops appropriate management of the highlighted weeds is recommended....
Ghulam Rasool1, Ayesha Aihetasham1*, Zulfiqar Ali1* and Rida Ahmad1,2
...dy sites belonging to 13 orders and 39 families. According to the IUCN red list, 148 species were least concern, 16 were near threatened and 11 were threatened (vulnerable (06), endangered (04) and critically endangered (01)). Habitat suitability index was used to rank the suitability of geese species at various sites from highly suitable to least suitable. Marala Headworks was found to be at the top as per habitat suitability score for all geese species, foll...
Muhammad Farooq* and Sanam Zarif
...e Malakand highlands. In order to stop invasive species from spreading, many management techniques are used. These consist of chemical control with herbicides such as glyphosate, mechanical removal, and organic pesticides. The use of biological control agents has proven successful in certain situations. ...
Baraa Najim Al-Okaily
...onic liver and kidney disorders are highly widespread globally and are intricately linked to oxidative stress, a phenomenon that has been extensively studied and highlighted for many years. Collectively, we can conclude that the oxidative stress is normal when there is a balance between the production rate and scavenger rate. However, it could be detrimental when the ability of body is insufficient to control the production rate or incapable to remove the harm...
Laila Ibouzine-Dine1*, Inssaf Berkiks1,2, Hasnaa Mallouk1, Mouloud Lamtai1, Zineb El Marzouki1, Amal Dimaoui1, Abdelhalem Mesfioui1, Aboubaker El Hessni1
...with neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression. While the nitric oxide (NO) pathway is implicated in depression, how changes in NO kinetics impact sex-dependent affective behaviors has not been thoroughly investigated. This study focuses on the effects of LPS-induced early immune challenge on NO release kinetics in the neonatal rat brain, as well as the link between these effects and long-term sex- and age-related behavioral changes in adolescence. Two ...
Idrissi Ouedrhiri Housna1, Bikri Samir1,2*, Benloughmari Douae1, Aboussaleh Youssef1
...buting to psychiatric disorders. Melatonin (MEL), known for its potent antioxidant properties and various benefits against hyperglycemia and stress-related complications, is particularly intriguing. The primary objective of this study was to investigate whether combining Melatonin and Metformin (MET) could ameliorate biochemical and behavioral changes associated with persistent hyperglycemia, specifically by reducing lipid peroxidation (LPO), a key marker of o...
... ocular artery supply in order to diagnose and treat eye disorders. In order to assist corrective surgeries, this study identified particular variations in the ocular arteries of donkeys in comparison to other species. Ten healthy adult donkey’s cadavers were used. Six of them were injected with heparin into the common carotid artery and they are subsequently washed with a warm salin...
Xinxing Wang1,4, Yunrong Shi2, Guobao Chen1, Tao Chen1, Kui Zhang1,3* and Wenhua Liu4*
...es inventory includes 18 orders, 79 families and 167 genera. Average numbers of (families, genera, species), (genera, species), and (species) per order, family, and genus, (4.39, 9.28, 14.94), (2.11, 3.41), and (1.61) were recorded. An average taxonomic distinctness of 75.0, and variation in taxonomic distinctness 99.8 were calculated. Whereas, an average taxonomic distinctness reveals genetic relationships between PRE fish ...
Kouakou Yadom Yao François-Regis*, Kra Kouamé Daniel and Atta Diallo Hortense
...refer immature leaves in order to develop nematicides for okra root-knot nematode management....
Milivoje Uroševic1, Darko Drobnjak1, Radomir Mandic2* and Sava Lazic3
... as a working animal. In order to examine the basic morphometric parameters of the udders of dairy donkeys, research was carried out on 15 dairy donkeys, bred on the farm of the Special Nature Reserve Zasavica in Zasavica near Sremska Mitrovica, in the Republic of Serbia. Donkeys are housed in groups in pens, without tethering. After milking, the foals were with them, and during milking mothers had visual contact with their foals. Milking was performed manuall...
Yingying Wang1, Sufen Zhao2* and Qunxiu Liu3*
...t are not very clear. In order to determine the protective effect of the current AI (H9 subtype) and ND vaccines on wild birds in Shanghai Zoo and to explore a more reasonable and effective immunization scheme, the hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test was used to detect antibodies in some rare wild birds in the zoo six months after vaccination and to investigate the protection efficiency of the two vaccines. The results show that the H9 subtype AI immunizatio...
Muhammad Jan1*, Muhammad Ashraf Sumrah2, Muhammad Azhar Iqbal1, Inam-ul-Haq1, Attiq Ur Rehman1, Javeria Sherani3, Muhammad Imran3 and Rizwan Latif4
... CEFORT BARI, Chakwal in order to find which season is suitable for maximum rooting. Five olive varieties from Germ Plasm Unit (GPU), of Barani Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Chakwal were selected. Thousand cutting of each were planted during mid-August- mid October (S1) and mid-January- mid March (S2). All standard nursery protocol were followed to get maximum rooting and survival percentage. Results of study revealed that the rooting ability of oil ...
Rand K. Abbas1, Zahraa S. Hadi1*, Zainab A. Hussein2, Sajad K. Matooq3
...023 and October 2023. In order to analyze blood parameters (Hb, PCV, RBC, and WBC), sixty mature chickens were employed. Blood samples (1 ml) were taken from each chicken’s jugular vein and placed into an ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid test tube. The tube was then gently shaken. The results were obtained using the Cell-Dyn Ruby equipment. The dissected intestinal portions of the sacrificed chickens were extracted in order
Rahmat Ullah Khan* and Karim Gabol
...rted that belonged to 15 orders and 40 families; of these, the Passeriformes was the dominant order. However, the habitat having the richest average avian diversity was; agriculture at 51.42% (540.85±25) followed by residential at 42.61% (706.78±32) and low at mountains at 5.96% (165.87±36). Regarding feeding habits, most bird species were insectivores (49.39%) followed by omnivores (20.48%) and carnivor...
Wen Xiong1, Zhimin Jin1, Zinuo Yuan1, Qin Liu2* and Peter A. Bowler3
...species), representing 9 orders, 26 families and 88 genera, that are distributed in the Yujiang River and its drainage basin. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criteria, six of these species (Anguilla japonica, Cyprinus carpio, Luciocyprinus langsoni, Pseudohemiculter dispar, Ptychidio jordani, and Cranoglanis bouderius), qualify for recognition as Threatened Species. Overfishing, water flow diversions and modifications, an...
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