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Clinical, Biochemical, and Molecular Aspects of Glanzmann Thrombasthenia in Horses 

Christopherson, Peter (2008-12-15)
Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT) is an autosomal recessive bleeding disorder that is caused by a quantitative or qualitative deficiency in platelet membrane glycoprotein complex IIb-IIIa (integrin aIIbß3), also known as the ...

The Development and Application of Quantitative Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Detection of Avian Reoviruses 

Guo, Kejun (2008-08-15)
We developed a TaqMan probe based real-time RT-PCR for qualitative and quantitative detection of avian reoviruses (ARVs). The primer-probe set was designed from the conserved region of ARV S4 genome segment. ARV strains ...

Development of a Recombinant Noncytopathic Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Stably Expressing Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein 

Fan, Zhenchuan (2005-08-15)
Noncytopathic (NCP) type-I bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) strain SD1 was originally isolated from a persistently infected heifer with fatal mucosal disease (MD) and represents the only reported nucleotide sequence of ...

Polymorphism in chicken immune response genes and resistance to disease 

O'Neill, Ann (2007-12-15)
Genetic resistance to a number of viral pathogens has been linked to polymorphisms in genes of the immune system. Among these are the genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and those induced by the type I ...