(a.) Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cerebrocortical necrosis appears to be unusual in goats, compared to cattle and sheep, but it should be entertained in the differential diagnosis of caprine nervous diseases.
(2) The ELISA and an immunoblotting technique were used to study F38-type mycoplasmas - an important cause of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia - and a number of related mycoplasma species, subspecies, types or serogroups.
(3) Purified caprine acrosin hydrolysed the 90 kDa and 65 kDa components, but did not hydrolyse the 55 kDa component of the porcine zona pellucida.
(4) Analysis of 448 milk samples (11 herds) from caprine udder halves showed that microorganisms were isolated from 21.8% of the samples.
(5) By a comparison with previously published results for caprine and bovine milk caseins, the four peaks were identified as kappa-, alpha s2-, alpha s1-, and beta-casein.
(6) An infectious proviral clone of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was microinjected into the cell nucleus in six cell lines derived from caprine, ovine, bovine, or human solid tissue to study the utility of this method in effecting viral gene expression in nonlymphoid cells.
(7) An 18-kb caprine genomic DNA fragment, comprising the beta-casein transcription unit with about 3-kb 5' and 6-kb 3' flanking regions, was microinjected into fertilized one-cell murine eggs.
(8) Ulcerative balanoposthitis, considered due to caprine herpesvirus infection, was observed in 11 animals (1.1%); acidophilic intranuclear inclusions were found in 7 of these.
(9) These changes were accompanied by electrophoretic pattern changes but no such changes were observed in ovine or caprine circulating lipoproteins during pregnancy and lactation.
(10) The level of expression of a long caprine alpha-lactalbumin transgene encompassing 8.5 kb and 9.5 kb of the 5' and 3' flanking region, respectively, was higher but still unrelated to the copy number.
(11) The respective homologies with caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus strain CO were 76 and 80%.
(12) MAbs from each epitope group were able to recognize 17 North American field isolates of OvLV and the closely related caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV).
(13) The caprine MHC is of particular interest, since it has recently been observed that susceptibility to a lentivirus-induced polyarthritis (caprine arthritis) segregates with serologically defined MHC class I antigens.
(14) In caprine beta-mannosidosis, an inherited dysmyelinating disorder, the myelin deficit shows substantial variation throughout the nervous system.
(15) These antigens were compared to peritoneal macrophages from mice infected with the Kümm stock and to caprine neutrophils in primary cultures from goats infected with 4 different stocks of Cowdria.
(16) Caprine herpesvirus 1 (CapHV-1) DNA was examined by electron microscopy, restriction site mapping and homology studies with bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) DNA.
(17) Virulent RV grew more readily in bovine than caprine or ovine lymphocytes, whereas virulent peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) grew better in lymphocytes from sheep and goats.
(18) Fifty-three percent of goats in 13 California goat dairies had antibodies to caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV), as determined by agar-gel immunodiffusion.
(19) The pathogenicity of caprine herpesvirus type-1 (CHV-1) in goat kids and lambs was studied.
(20) A genomic comparison of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1), caprine herpesvirus (CHV-2) and reindeer herpesvirus (RHV), was performed using 5 restriction endonucleases.