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Minimizing Disease In Your Sheep Flock, A Guide To Preventive Flock Health, Kerry A. Rood, C Kim Chapman Sep 2009

Minimizing Disease In Your Sheep Flock, A Guide To Preventive Flock Health, Kerry A. Rood, C Kim Chapman

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This publication serves as a guide to preventative sheep flock health that explains risks, nutrition, vaccinations, etc.


Helmets, Heads, And Health For Horse Enthusiasts, Patricia Evans, Colette Floyd Aug 2009

Helmets, Heads, And Health For Horse Enthusiasts, Patricia Evans, Colette Floyd

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This publication describes why helmet use is highly recommended for all equestrian activities, while assisting with proper helmet sizing and fit.


Making And Keeping Your Cattle Herd Safe From Bovine Viral Diarrhea (Bvd), Kerry A. Rood, C Kim Chapman, Allen Young Aug 2009

Making And Keeping Your Cattle Herd Safe From Bovine Viral Diarrhea (Bvd), Kerry A. Rood, C Kim Chapman, Allen Young

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This publication provides steps for keeping cattle herds safe from Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD).


Effects Of Creep Supplementation While Grazing Improved Irrigated Pastures, A. F. Summers Jul 2009

Effects Of Creep Supplementation While Grazing Improved Irrigated Pastures, A. F. Summers

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This publication describes results of a study of creep supplementation versus grazing among calves.


Prevention Of Hydatid Disease, Kerry A. Rood, Emma Jane Kelly Jul 2009

Prevention Of Hydatid Disease, Kerry A. Rood, Emma Jane Kelly

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This publication provides details for preventing hydatid disease in dogs and sheep.


Managing Your Horse On A Tight Budget, Patricia Evans Jun 2009

Managing Your Horse On A Tight Budget, Patricia Evans

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This publication gives tips to giving your horse the proper love and care it needs while sticking to a budget.


18th Biennial Cheese Industry Conference, Various Authors May 2009

18th Biennial Cheese Industry Conference, Various Authors

Cheese Industry Conference

No abstract provided.


Internal Parasites And Your Horse: A Cause For Concern, Patricia Evans, Jennifer Nadeau May 2009

Internal Parasites And Your Horse: A Cause For Concern, Patricia Evans, Jennifer Nadeau

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This publication describes different types of worms that are prevalent among horses and discusses how to best treat and prevent worm infestation.


Landscape Limnology: Nutrient Fluxes & Biotic Stability In Complex Mountain Watersheds, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Michelle Kang, Dave M. Epstein Apr 2009

Landscape Limnology: Nutrient Fluxes & Biotic Stability In Complex Mountain Watersheds, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Michelle Kang, Dave M. Epstein

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Fecal Egg Count Tests Improve Deworming Programs, Patricia Evans, Kerry A. Rood Apr 2009

Fecal Egg Count Tests Improve Deworming Programs, Patricia Evans, Kerry A. Rood

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This publication discusses improvements that have been made to deworming programs.


Daily Horse Observations For Horse Owners, Patricia Evans, Karen Waite Apr 2009

Daily Horse Observations For Horse Owners, Patricia Evans, Karen Waite

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This publication gives suggestions of what to watch for on a daily basis to assure your horse is healthy and happy.


Nutrient Limitation Of Phytoplankton By Nitrogen And Phosphorus: Erosion Of The Phosphorus Paradigm, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, William M. Lewis Iii Jan 2009

Nutrient Limitation Of Phytoplankton By Nitrogen And Phosphorus: Erosion Of The Phosphorus Paradigm, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, William M. Lewis Iii

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Freshwater Responses To Nitrogen And Phosphorus Pollution And A Case Study Of Cutler And Dingle Marsh Wetlands, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh Jan 2009

Freshwater Responses To Nitrogen And Phosphorus Pollution And A Case Study Of Cutler And Dingle Marsh Wetlands, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Extreme Eutrophication And Cyanotoxin Levels In Farmington Bay, A Polluted Embayment Of The Great Salt Lake, Utah, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Amy M. Marcarelli, Gregory Boyer Jan 2009

Extreme Eutrophication And Cyanotoxin Levels In Farmington Bay, A Polluted Embayment Of The Great Salt Lake, Utah, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Amy M. Marcarelli, Gregory Boyer

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

The Great Salt Lake of Utah is surrounded on its eastern and southern shores by 1.4 million people, with projections of 5 million by 2050. Agricultural, industrial and particularly secondary-treated domestic wastes from this population flow primarily into Farmington Bay, a 280 km2 shallow "estuary" with a mean depth near 0.5 m. Fish are rare but bird use is extensive and massive mortalities of waterfowl and shorebirds have occurred in the bay. Phosphorus loading rates of >2 g m-2yr-1 cause hypereutrophic conditions: Secchi depths are usually 0.6 mg/L, mean Chl. a is 179 ug/L and the combined trophic state index …


Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Grassbed Treatments As Habitat For Juvenile Black Bass In A Drawdown Reservoir, D. R. Ratcliff, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, J. Zustak Jan 2009

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Grassbed Treatments As Habitat For Juvenile Black Bass In A Drawdown Reservoir, D. R. Ratcliff, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, J. Zustak

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Many reservoirs in arid regions experience highly variable water levels caused by seasonal inflow fluctuations and designated outflow requirements. At Shasta Lake, California, managers plant cereal-grain grassbeds on exposed drawdown shorelines to increase juvenile fish habitat, localize productivity, and increase invertebrate fish prey. To determine the efficacy of these plantings, the abundance of juvenile black basses Micropterus spp. (20–55 mm standard length) and the amount of periphyton and macroinvertebrate prey were compared among three treatment types: (1) planted grassbeds of cereal barley Hordeum vulgare; (2) artificial rope grassbeds, which eliminated physical deterioration and nutrient release; and (3) nonplanted control sites …


Mercury In The Biostrome Community Of The Great Salt Lake, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Caleb Izdepski Jan 2009

Mercury In The Biostrome Community Of The Great Salt Lake, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Caleb Izdepski

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Limnological Analyses Of Cutler Reservoir And Dingle Marsh With Respect To Eutrophication, J. D. Abbott, Deb Collins, Colin Cook, Dan Lamarra, Ryan Leonard, Ben Marret, Justin Stout, Gilbert Rowley, Jeremy Rowley, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh Jan 2009

Limnological Analyses Of Cutler Reservoir And Dingle Marsh With Respect To Eutrophication, J. D. Abbott, Deb Collins, Colin Cook, Dan Lamarra, Ryan Leonard, Ben Marret, Justin Stout, Gilbert Rowley, Jeremy Rowley, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Cutler Reservoir is located in Cache county, Utah and was created for the purposes of irrigation, water storage and flood control. High nutrient loading to Cutler has raised concerns about the health of this system and has resulted in it being listed on the state's 303(d) list of impaired waters. The TMDL plan being drafted for Cutler lists dissolved oxygen and phosphorous as the key issues of concern. The underlying problem created by nutrient loading is eutrophication. If Cutler is to remain as a valuable source of recreation, wildlife habitat, and water for the Cache Valley we must understand the …


2008 Annual Report, Various Authors Jan 2009

2008 Annual Report, Various Authors

Annual Reports

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A Recombinant,Infectious Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 Expressing The Enhanced Green Fluorescentprotein For Use In High-Throughput Antiviral Assays, J. P. Roth, J. K. Li, Donald F. Smee, John D. Morrey, Dale L. Barnard Jan 2009

A Recombinant,Infectious Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 Expressing The Enhanced Green Fluorescentprotein For Use In High-Throughput Antiviral Assays, J. P. Roth, J. K. Li, Donald F. Smee, John D. Morrey, Dale L. Barnard

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

The ability to rescue an infectious, recombinant, negative-stranded, RNA virus from a cDNA clone, has led to new opportunities for measuring viral replication from a viral expressed reporter gene. In this study, the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) gene was inserted into the human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV-3) antigenome and a recombinant, infectious virus was rescued. Maximum EGFP expression levels, measured by fluorescence, were seen at day 3. Comparison of a three-day, viral expressed EGFP fluorescence assay to a seven-day, neutral red assay, based on complete cell destruction in virus infected MA-104 cells, yielded Z′-factor values of 0.83 and …


Transcriptional Reprogramming Of Gene Expression In Bovine Somatic Cell Chromatin Transfer Embryos, N. Rodriguez-Osorio, Zhongde Wang, G. P. Page, J. M. Robl, E. Memili Jan 2009

Transcriptional Reprogramming Of Gene Expression In Bovine Somatic Cell Chromatin Transfer Embryos, N. Rodriguez-Osorio, Zhongde Wang, G. P. Page, J. M. Robl, E. Memili

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Background Successful reprogramming of a somatic genome to produce a healthy clone by somatic cells nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a rare event and the mechanisms involved in this process are poorly defined. When serial or successive rounds of cloning are performed, blastocyst and full term development rates decline even further with the increasing rounds of cloning. Identifying the "cumulative errors" could reveal the epigenetic reprogramming blocks in animal cloning. Results Bovine clones from up to four generations of successive cloning were produced by chromatin transfer (CT). Using Affymetrix bovine microarrays we determined that the transcriptomes of blastocysts derived from the …


A New Mouse-Adapted Strain Of Sars-Cov As A Lethal Model Forevaluating Antiviral Agents In Vitro And In Vivo, C. W. Day, R. Baric, S. X. Cai, M. Frieman, Y. Kumaki, John D. Morrey, Donald F. Smee, Dale L. Barnard Jan 2009

A New Mouse-Adapted Strain Of Sars-Cov As A Lethal Model Forevaluating Antiviral Agents In Vitro And In Vivo, C. W. Day, R. Baric, S. X. Cai, M. Frieman, Y. Kumaki, John D. Morrey, Donald F. Smee, Dale L. Barnard

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a highly lethal emerging disease caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV. New lethal animal models for SARS were needed to facilitate antiviral research. We adapted and characterized a new strain of SARS-CoV (strain v2163) that was highly lethal in 5–6 week old BALB/c mice. It had nine mutations affecting 10 amino acid residues. Strain v2163 increased IL-1α, IL-6, MIP-1α, MCP-1, and RANTES in mice, and high IL-6 expression correlated with mortality. The infection largely mimicked human disease, but lung pathology lacked hyaline membrane formation. In vitro efficacy against v2163 was shown with known inhihibitors of SARSCoV …


Inducible Bronchus-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Elicited By A Protein Cage Nanoparticle Enhances Protectionin Mice Against Diverse Respiratory Viruses, J. A. Wiley, L. E. Richert, S. D. Swain, A. Harmsen, Dale L. Barnard, T. D. Randall, M. Jutila, T. Douglas, C. Broomell, M. Young, A. Harmsen Jan 2009

Inducible Bronchus-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Elicited By A Protein Cage Nanoparticle Enhances Protectionin Mice Against Diverse Respiratory Viruses, J. A. Wiley, L. E. Richert, S. D. Swain, A. Harmsen, Dale L. Barnard, T. D. Randall, M. Jutila, T. Douglas, C. Broomell, M. Young, A. Harmsen

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Destruction of the architectural and subsequently the functional integrity of the lung following pulmonary viral infections is attributable to both the extent of pathogen replication and to the host-generated inflammation associated with the recruitment of immune responses. The presence of antigenically disparate pulmonary viruses and the emergence of novel viruses assures the recurrence of lung damage with infection and resolution of each primary viral infection. Thus, there is a need to develop safe broad spectrum immunoprophylactic strategies capable of enhancing protective immune responses in the lung but which limits immune-mediated lung damage. The immunoprophylactic strategy described here utilizes a protein …


Animal Models For The Study Of Influenza Pathogenesis And Therapy, Dale L. Barnard Jan 2009

Animal Models For The Study Of Influenza Pathogenesis And Therapy, Dale L. Barnard

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Influenza A viruses causes a variety of illnesses in humans. The most common infection, seasonal influenza, is usually a mild, self-limited febrile syndrome, but it can be more severe in infants, the elderly, and immunodeficient persons, in whom it can progress to severe viral pneumonitis or be complicated by bacterial superinfection, leading to pneumonia and sepsis. Seasonal influenza also occasionally results in neurologic complications. Rarely, viruses that have spread from wild birds to domestic poultry can infect humans; such “avian influenza” can range in severity from mild conjunctivitis through the rapidly lethal disease seen in persons infected with the H5N1 …


Showing The 4-H Hunter, Rebecca Lewis, Patricia Evans Jan 2009

Showing The 4-H Hunter, Rebecca Lewis, Patricia Evans

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This publication gives important information to consider when preparing to compete in a 4-H Hunter competition.


Showing Utah 4-H Dressage, Rebecca Lewis, Patricia Evans Jan 2009

Showing Utah 4-H Dressage, Rebecca Lewis, Patricia Evans

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This publication gives information on Dressage which teaches understanding between horse and rider. Dressage develops the horse's physical and mental condition.