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The chinchilla as a novel animal model of pregnancy [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
Several parameters are important when choosing the most appropriate animal to model human obstetrics, including gestation period, number of fetuses per gestation and placental structure.
Emmeli Mikkelsen, Henrik Lauridsen, Per Mose Nielsen   +2 more
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Trophic Ecology of a Threatened Specialist: Implications of the Dependence on Pappostipa frigida for the Conservation of Chinchilla chinchilla [PDF]

Animals
Understanding trophic ecology is fundamental for the conservation of threatened species with specialist trophic strategies, such as the short-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla chinchilla), a critically endangered rodent whose diet in the wild is poorly ...
Juan Pablo Castillo, Arturo Cortés, Fernando Novoa   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Concomitant Congenital Diaphagmatic Hernia (CDH) and bilateral bacterial glomerulonephritis in a pet chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera)

BMC Veterinary Research, 2021
Background The domestic chinchilla has been descended from Chinchilla lanigera (long-tailed Chinchilla) or Chinchilla chinchilla (short-tailed Chinchilla).
Alessandro Vetere, Mara Bertocchi, Emanuele Moggia, Igor Pelizzone, Francesco Di Ianni   +4 more
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Distribution and neurochemical characteristic of the cardiac nerve structures in the heart of chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger Molina)

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica, 2021
INTRODUCTION: The heart innervation is made up of plexo-ganglionic formation containing sympathetic, parasympathetic, and sensory components. We examined the distribution and neurochemical coding of the ganglia and nerve fibers in the chinchilla’s heart.
Malgorzata Radzimirska, Jacek Kuchinka, Tadeusz Kuder, Elzbieta Nowak, Wojciech Trybus, Grzegorz Wrobel, Aleksander Szczurkowski   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phacoemulsification in a chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera)

Open Veterinary Journal, 2023
Background: A cataract is one of the underlying causes blindness in animals. Phacoemulsification is the standard procedure in cataract surgery for humans and animals.
Natthanet Sritrakoon, Ladawan Areevijittrakul, Nuttatida Nimitchaiyapong, Natruree Khamchomphu, Taksaon Duangurai   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bacterial Biofilms Utilize an Underlying Extracellular DNA Matrix Structure That Can Be Targeted for Biofilm Resolution

Microorganisms, 2022
Bacterial biofilms contribute significantly to the antibiotic resistance, pathogenesis, chronicity and recurrence of bacterial infections. Critical to the stability and survival of extant biofilms is the extracellular DNA (eDNA)-dependent matrix which ...
Steven D. Goodman, Lauren O. Bakaletz
doaj   +1 more source

Short Term Effect of Ivermectin on the Bacterial Microbiota from Fecal Samples in Chinchillas (Chinchilla lanigera)

Veterinary Sciences, 2023
The gastrointestinal microbiota plays an important role in health of the host animals and the detrimental influence of pharmaceutical treatment on the fecal microbiota receives an increasing concern.
Xinyi Ma, Jing Li, Luo Yang, Haoqian Liu, Yiping Zhu, Honglin Ren, Feng Yu, Bo Liu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficiency of meat-fattening rabbits farmed by different keeping technologies

RUDN Journal of Agronomy and Animal Industries, 2022
In Russia, different technologies are used for keeping commercial young animals in the production of rabbit meat. The main ones are in rooms with a controlled microclimate (imported young rabbits) and sheds (domestic breeds).
Elizaveta G. Kvartnikova, Elena V. Shastina   +1 more
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The biometric ratios on the tarsus of the chinchilla (chinchilla lanigera) based on 3D reconstructed images [PDF]

Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019
This study was undertaken to perform a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the tarsal bones of chinchillas using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) images and reveal biometric ratio of the bones and compare between sexes.
Sema ÖZKADİF, Emrullah EKEN, Ayşe HALIGÜR   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parvovirus-derived endogenous viral elements in two South American rodent genomes [PDF]

, 2014
We describe endogenous viral elements (EVEs) derived from parvoviruses (family <i>Parvoviridae</i>) in the long-tailed chinchilla (<i>Chinchilla lanigera</i>) and degu (<i>Octodon degus</i>) genomes.
Abascal, Antoine, Ardiles, Arnaud, Belyi, Bezier, Dewannieux, G. Arriagada, Gould, Guindon, Kapoor, Katzourakis, Kumar, Liu, Naccache, Okanoya, Opazo, Phan, R. J. Gifford, Rowe, Smuts   +20 more
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