Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM): Recent submissions
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Rethink communication skills content in African veterinary curriculum and practice": a comparative review.
(2015)Globalization, emerging and re-emerging diseases are creating opportunities for the review of veterinary curricula and continuous professional development courses in Africa; by pointing to professional inadequacies in the ... -
Molecular Cloning, Characterization, and Expression Analysis of Flavanone 3-Hydroxylase (F3H) Gene during Muscadine Grape Berry Development
(2015)Flavonoids are natural antioxidants that include the groups of notable pigments such as anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins. Flavanone 3-Hydroxylase (F3H) is a key enzyme needed for the biosynthesis of flavonoids, the ... -
Chronic (90 days) toxicity of pyrethrum in Germ[an] Shepherd dogs.
(University of Nairobi, 1983)Young German Shepherd dogs (6-12 months) were fed pyrethrum (10, 25, 50 or 100 mg/kg body weight) added to food for 90 days. At 100 mg/kg the pyrethrum was neurotoxic, progressively causing ataxia, clonic convulsions, and ... -
The development of pneumatisation in the postcranial skeleton of the domestic fowl.
(University of Nairobi, 1984)In a flock of Golden Comet pullets, the entire vertebral column and ribs, coracoids, os coxae and humeri were examined from hatching to 182 days of age. No pneumatization was found until 35 days after hatching, when it had ... -
The distribution of pneumatisation in the skeleton of the adult domestic fowl.
(University of Nairobi, 1984)In the skull of eight adult White Leghorn birds examined grossly and histologically, pneumatization occurred regularly throughout the neurocranium and in the quadrate and variably in the mandible, but seemed to be absent ... -
Efficacy of neem and pawpaw products against oesophagostomum SPP infection in pigs
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Persistant cloaca and atresia ani in a calf.
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Species-specific patterns of urine investigation and flehmen in Grant's gazelle (Gazella granti), Thomson's gazelle (G. thomsoni), impala (Aepyceros melampus), an
(University of Nairobi, 1987-12)During sexual encounters in most antelope species, males routinely investigate recently voided urine or the genitalia of females and often perform flehmen following such investigations. Quantitative data from field studies ... -
Differential foraging of oxpeckers on impala in comparison with sympatric antelope species
(University of Nairobi, 1990-12)Regression analysis performed on published observations of oxpeckers foraging for ticks on different species of ungulates revealed a significant positive relationship between number of red-billed oxpeckers per unit body ... -
Water use efficiency of six range grasses under varied soil water content in Kenyan semi-arid rangeland.
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Assessment of trends in land cover and crop type change over two decades in Yatta sub county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Abstract Assessment of the distribution and dynamics of vegetation is becoming increasingly important in predicting the effects of climate change especially in the ASALs. It is therefore important to determine the effects ... -
Effect of thidiazuron, benzylaminopurine and naphthalene acetic acid on in vitro propagation of tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa L.) from shoot tip explants.
(University of Nairobi, 2004)Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa L.) is an important export crop among small-scale farmers in Kenya. One of the main challenges facing production and marketing of good quality Tuberose cut flowers is the lack of clean planting ... -
Assessment of lead and cadmium residues in farmed fish in Machakos and Kiambu counties, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) concentrations were determined in muscle, gonad, liver and brain of tilapia fish caught from fish ponds in Machakos and Kiambu counties in Kenya. A total of 217 fish samples were randomly sampled ... -
Evaluating the efficacy of teaching methods regarding prevention of human epilepsy caused by taenia solium neurocysticercosis in western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Taenia solium neurocysticercosis is a major cause of adult-onset epilepsy in developing countries. A questionnaire was administered to 282 Kenyan farmers, followed by a workshop, a second questionnaire, one-on-one training, ... -
Studies of the permanent incisor eruption, and body development, of the Large East African Zebu (Boran) 2. Relations of incisor eruption with body growth, body development, and carcass composition.
(University of Nairobi, 1977)The growth curves for early and late eruptors were compared (steers whose eruption age of the 1st incisor pair was less than the mean and greater than the mean resp.). From birth to 195 wk, early eruptors were heavier than ... -
The incidence of bovine mastitis in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1978)Clinical mastitis was recorded in 294 of 3376 cows in 1971, 476 of 4744 in 1972 and 200 of 4595 in 1973. The California mastitis test was applied to 214 cows in 15 herds during 1972, and subclinical mastitis was detected ... -
The incidence of gamma-globulin and J antigen in sera of foetal calves from zebu cattle.
(University of Nairobi, 1973)Fifty sera from zebu foetal calves were examined by sodium sulphite turbidity test, agar gel double diffusion, immunoelectrophoresis and radial immunodiffusion procedures for gamma-globulin, and by an inhibition test for ... -
Duration of Brucella ovis infection in ewes.
(University of Nairobi, 1975)Twenty Romney Marsh ewes, some 5 to 40 days pregnant, were inoculated with a strain of B. ovis onto the scarified mucous membrane of the vagina. Establishment of infection was ascertained by recovery of the organisms from ... -
Leucocyte migration inhibition as a model for the demonstration of sensitized cells in East Coast fever
(University of Nairobi, 1974)When bovine peripheral leucocytes were used in a migration inhibition test to detect sensitization to Theileria parva antigens, 76% of cattle that were exposed to T. parva antigens yielded sensitive cells. The reaction was ...