(n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Example Sentences:
(1) % hatch X 20000) of ticks from treated cattle with that of ticks from untreated cattle.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(4) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
(5) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(6) Postpartum milk samples from 61 heifers and 24 tissues from 2 reactor cattle were culture-negative for B abortus.
(7) Analysis of literature data in which both the in vivo protection test and the in vitro neutralization test results were available on the same sera showed consistency with the above conclusions for both cattle and swine sera.
(8) The results of this study suggested that there are differences in hormone concentrations that are related to size rather than being the result of differences in physiological maturity of different breeds of cattle.
(9) Report on the results of serological studies on the species Leptospira interrogans in cattle (19,607), swine (6,348), dogs (182) and horses (88) from the Netherlands during the period from 1969 to 1974.
(10) The occurrence of fungi in tissue specimens from 72 cattle was examined by culture, histopathology and indirect immunofluorescence staining (IIF).
(11) Thirty-two homologous genes now have been mapped in humans, mice, and cattle.
(12) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(13) at -35 degrees C and as long as 10 hours at -5 degrees C. However, C. bovis died within 72-96 hours in muscles of cattle carcasses subjected to the activity of the temperatures minus 18-19 degrees C at a relative humidity of 86-90% under conditions of an industrial cold storage plant.
(14) Mature Fasciola gigantica obtained from naturally infected cattle were surgically transferred into the gallbladders of six fluke-free goats.
(15) Studies in cattle assessing changes in number and size of antral follicles, concentrations of estradiol, androgens and progesterone in serum and follicular fluid, and numbers of gonadotropin receptors per follicle during repetitive estrous cycles and postpartum anestrus are reviewed.
(16) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
(17) Also, 17 cattle similarly were given a placebo injection and served as control animals.
(18) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(19) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
(20) In neutrophilous peripheral blood leucocytes of healthy and leucotic cattle the PAS reaction attained the values of ++ to +++.
Oxen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Ox
Example Sentences:
(1) The antiserum cross-reacted with monkey serum, but not with sera from dogs, rats, and mice, horses, pigs, guinea pigs, oxen, and rabbits.
(2) The identification of these metabolites as 9 beta,15(S)-dihydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-epoxymethano-5(Z),13(E)-prostadienoic acid and the R and S isomer of 15(S)-hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(C-hydroxy-epoxymethano)-5(Z),13(E)-prostadienoic acid is only tentative since no reference compounds were available, but clearly thromboxane synthase was acting as an oxene transferase in this reaction.
(3) Hydatid cysts were collected from camels, horses, oxen and sheep in various geographical locations.
(4) Zebu oxen had higher pvCO2 and FFA and lower pH, pvO2 and lactate in response to exercise.
(5) A number of young Friesian oxen were slaughtered (one at a time) for parasite recovery for 12 consecutive months, from April 1987 to March 1988, on a farm in the Fauresmith district of the south western Orange Free State.
(6) The daily starch intake of the oxen ranged from 575 to 2739 g on nutrition level (NL) 1.7 and from 365 to 1804 g on NL 1.1.
(7) A mechanism is proposed in which an initial Lewis acid-base interaction of Fe(III)Cl3 with H2O2 generates a highly electrophilic Fe(III)-oxene species as the reactive intermediate.
(8) Seasonal changes in weight were severe for both work oxen (87 to 107% of mean weight) and for cows (88 to 110%).
(9) Visitors roam like herds of lobotomised oxen in search of nourishment, from clambering on a net over some flowerbeds inside Brazil’s giant climbing frame, to the touch-screen excitement of playing “Lithuania or not?” (a game of swiping national dishes into a digital shopping basket).
(10) Other discoveries in the area include evidence of Mesolithic people feasting on aurochs (huge oxen), salmon, trout, hazelnuts and even frog’s legs, around eight millennia before they became a French staple .
(11) All four tick resistant oxen recovered after a mild febrile reaction.
(12) "Wild" Simulium bovis females were collected after they had taken blood on a bait oxen with skin microfilariae (mf) of Onchocerca dukei and Onchocerca ochengi.
(13) An involvement of the immonium oxene in the reaction mechanism is consistent with ferryl heme reduction by nitroxides and a detection of the reduced nitroxide when the reaction mixture is supplemented with the two-electron reductant sodium borohydride.
(14) Step a few feet from the beach, however, and the small towns are 100% Chilean with colourful adobe homes and farmers who still use oxen-pulled carts.
(15) The differences in the content of DNA, RNA and protein per g tissue between male calves, bulls, short scrotum bulls and oxen of the same age were in part significant.
(16) In the present study, the position of the parathyroids III (external parathyroids) and of the parathyroids IV (internal parathyroids) was examined in 25 young calves, 10 veal calves and 5 adult oxen.
(17) In addition, sera from 200 sheep and cattle and from 39 wild mammals were tested: 8 sheep, 3 oxen, and 1 hedgehog showed evidence of recent infection.
(18) A total of 458 cows, oxen, and calves (up to the second year of age) were studied over the 1971-1973 period.
(19) These studies were carried out using chronically implanted thermode probes in conscious oxen at 15 degrees C air temperature.
(20) The cost due to draft oxen being affected was estimated at K. 428 (US$193) per affected ox.