What are local means to reduce pig death by natural diseases?

How many samples/measurements do I need for certain a sensitivity & specificity?

I'm taking some measurements using Raman spectroscopy of healthy pig eye samples using a new excitation wavelength and my supervisor said to choose a sample size to allow for spec/sens of 85%....

01 November 2020 8,611 6 View

Glucose dehydrogenase interference with glucokinase assay?

Hello all, I'm currently working with undergraduate student-researchers (there are no graduate students at my university) to purify and characterize the drug targetability of glucokinase from pig...

25 October 2020 3,553 7 View

What is the best way to extract DNA from Pig's fecal sample?

Dear Colleagues, As we know the DNA extraction steps of animal fecal sample is bit different than human fecal sample. For instance, we generally use QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit to extract DNA as a...

09 September 2020 1,927 4 View

I am using glmm and lmm in R studio to create a 2-part conditional model of pig sign against habitat variables. Can I repeat time-invariant data?

The pig sign data (the dependent variable) is repeatedly measured over 4 time periods at 17 separate sites. The habitat variables (the explanatory variables) are time-invariant, but have been...

03 August 2020 9,659 2 View

The Covid-19 pandemic crisis: what lessons to learn and what measures?

This pandemic is unique in many ways, but the fact remains that we can learn from past economic crises (for example, the global financial crisis) as well as from previous epidemics (for example,...

24 May 2020 7,536 24 View

Can we use pig imune serum to perform a passive immunization in mice?

We have vaccinated pig with antigens and then, we would like to know whether we can use mice to perform a passive protection assay by using the pig immune sera. Do you know pig macrophages can...

15 April 2020 2,510 2 View

Does anyone know good antibodies to detect PGR and ESR in pigs using IHC/IF??

Students tried several antibodies of PGR and ESR recommended from previous publications for IHC. None of them worked. So does anyone know good antibodies for PGR and ESR detection in pig tissues...

21 January 2020 8,422 2 View

Does anyone know good antibodies to detect PGR and ESR in pigs using IHC/IF??

Students tried several antibodies of PGR and ESR recommended from previous publications for IHC. None of them worked. So does anyone know good antibodies for PGR and ESR detection in pig tissues...

31 December 2019 4,793 1 View

Is there anybody out there, who've been doing westerns of Nav1.6 sodium channel in pig brain tissue?

I'm using Nav1.6 antibody from alamone labs to lok for this sodium channel expression levels in pigs brains. The antibody worked fine in IHC, but I am having troubles detecting the channel in...

31 December 2019 184 1 View

Can someone suggest a sterilized, clean and trustable pig serum company for ordering?

Hi everyone, I currently did some experiments with a pig serum (notnheat inactivated), which the control negative of that showed bacterial contamination. As I have to filter it befor using and I...

11 December 2019 9,794 3 View

Dawit Belay Shibeshi

the best thing is vaccination and isolation of the diseased one from the flock and environmental, feed and water hygiene.

Ian Duran Fontanilla

Implement strict biosecurity protocol and have a comprehensive health program.

Sekinah Oladimeji

Consult SAKLAD farms for the solution.

We help help you achieve a successful research work with our animal care and health teams.

Ioan Ladosi

Fully agree with Ian! However, first be sure that politicians are in line with the local legislation. In some countries and with some diseases which might require animal killing there is opposition as animals are owned by the people and people are votes!

How far with your vaccination against Swine fever disease?

SAKLAD farms can assist you on that.

With vaccine for wild pigs the progress is promising. In domestic pig nothing so far.

We can assist you on that

Juan Carlos Blandon

What do the autopsies say?