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The thickness of avian blood-gas barrier: qualitative and quantitative observations.
(1982)
Gas exchange in the avian lung takes place across a blood-gas barrier formed, as
in other air-breathing vertebrates, by three essential components, an epithelial cell,
a basal lamina, and an endothelial cell. The thickness ...
The morphology of the lung of the black mamba Dendroaspis polylepis (Reptilia: Ophidia: Elapidae). A scanning and transmission electron microscopic study
(1989)
The lung of a snake, the black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), has been investigated by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. This species has only one lung, the right, which is long and occupies most of the ...
The morphology of the lung of the black mamba Dendroaspis polylepis (Reptilia: Ophidia: Elapidae). A scanning and transmission electron microscopic study
(1989)
The black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) belongs to the family Elapidae that also
includes the cobras, kraits and coral snakes. Generally, these snakes are extremely
venomous and occur in the warmer parts of the world ...
The use of preserved colostrum for rearing replacement dairy calves: calf performance, economics and on-farm practicability in Kenya.
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1995)
A total of 133 observations on mean daily mass gains from 19 calves reared on either whole milk (control) or preserved colostrum (treatment) were estimated. The control group had a total of 104 observations computed, while ...
Factors affecting mortality in free ranging Small East African goats. MSc thesis, University of Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 1987)
The causes, levels and factors affecting mortality of the Small East African goat on a semi- arid thornbush savannah, at Isiolo, were determined.
A total of 40 deaths of immatures and adults were were used to determine ...
Correlation and multi-regression analyses in populations of two Kenyan landraces of spiderflower Gynandropsis gynandra.
(University of Nairobi,, 1992)
Information on correlation and multiple-regression is derived from data on 7 characters in 2 Kenyan landraces (E and M) of G. gynandra [Cleome gynandra], grown at Thika during the short-rain season, 1988, and at Kabete ...
Improved clinical approach to the diagnosis of canine ehrlichiosis.
(Univeristy of Nairobi, 1987)
During a 20-month period canine ehrlichiosis was the most frequently diagnosed disease at the Nairobi University small animal clinic; 750 cases were identified in dogs within a 25-km radius of Nairobi (8% of all cases). ...
A comparison of the efficacy of imidocarb dipropionate and tetracycline hydrochloride in the treatment of canine ehrlichiosis
(Univeristy of Nairobi, 1980)
At the University of Nairobi small animal clinic, 5-7 mg/kg imidocarb dipropionate given i/m twice at an interval of 14 days was as effective as 14 daily, oral doses of 66 mg/kg tetracycline hydrochloride in alleviating ...