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Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde , Fascioliasis/diagnosis , Pancreatitis/parasitology , Adult , Animals , Common Bile Duct/parasitology , Fasciola hepatica/isolation & purification , Fascioliasis/complications , Fascioliasis/parasitology , Humans , Male , Pancreatitis/diagnosisABSTRACT
Fourteen gilts were aborted (some of them repeatedly) by i.m. administration of 500/ug cloprostenol (PG) between 30 and 100 days of pregnancy so that the total number of PG-induced abortions was 19. Six of these gilts were allowed to terminate their subsequent pregnancy by farrowing. It was found that In a Trial under semi-production conditions the mean birth body mass of piglets from 11 gilts bred after previous PG-induced abortion was 1.48 kg as compared to 1.19 kg in the controls. The difference was significant (P<0.01).
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Morphometric methods and two unique characteristics of neutrophils enabled us to measure the size of the pool of neutrophils in alveoli of rabbit lungs. Rabbit lungs contained an estimated 6.11 x 10(4) alveolar neutrophils/g wet wt of lungs, and 9.57 x 10(5) alveolar neutrophils/rabbit. Lung lavage was successful in removing an average of 42.2% of the neutrophils in the air containing spaces of the lungs. An average of 2.5 +/- 3.5 (SD)% of the cells in the lung washes were neutrophils, but an average of 10.23 +/- 5.0 (SD)% of the cells that were free in the alveolus were neutrophils. Studies of the interaction of alveolar macrophages and neutrophils in vitro showed that neither cell phagocytoses or destroys the other in significant quantities; however, alveolar macrophages containing neutrophils have been observed.
