In a study of susceptibilities of sows from 2 herds to experimentally induced Escherichia coli mastitis, a marked difference was seen. The "susceptible" sows were from a conventional herd and "resistant" sows were from a specific-pathogen-free herd. The purpose of the study was t...

The following studies were designed to evaluate plasma elimination kinetics of intravenously administered antipyrine, acetaminophen and lidocaine among 9 healthy adult horses and 9 healthy drug-free humans (3 each per drug group), in order to compare potential species differences in drug-metabolizin...

A 4-year-old ewe with weight loss, anorexia, and high liver enzyme activities was diagnosed at necropsy as having cholangiocellular carcinoma that had metastasized to kidneys, adrenal glands, heart, lungs, mediastinum, and peritoneal surface of the diaphragm. Cholangiocellular carcinoma is an uncomm...

Ataxia was diagnosed in kids from a New England goat herd. Concurrent infection with the caprine arthritis/encephalitis (CAE) virus contributed to the development of hind limb ataxia and weakness in one of the kids. Six kids from this herd had signs of hind limb ataxia and paralysis. Detailed evalua...

Regio- and stereoselective palladium-catalyzed reactions of allene-substituted 1,3-dienes 1 in acetic acid at room temperature lead to cyclization with formation of a carbon-carbon bond between the middle carbon of the allene and the terminal carbon of the 1,3-diene. Two different types of reactions...

Palladium(0)-catalyzed reaction of allene-substituted allylic carboxylates 3-8 employing 2-5 mol % of Pd(dba)(2) in refluxing toluene leads to the carbocyclization and elimination of carboxylic acid to give bicyclo[4.3.0]nonadiene and bicyclo[5.3.0]decadiene derivatives (12-17). The carbon-carbon bo...

This paper describes a new general approach towards functionalized piperidine alkaloids, based on the stereo- and regioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed nucleophilic ring-opening of vinyl epoxides by nitrogen nucleophiles. The latter reaction provides access to stereo-defined and and syn aminoalcohol...

A versatile method for the preparation of indolizidine alkaloids from 1-benzyloxy-5-(p-toluenesulfonamido)-3-alken-2-ols as stereodefined key intermediates has been developed. The utility of this approach was demonstrated by the synthesis of (+)-monomorine I.

The influence of alkene geometry and allylic substitution on the stereochemical outcome of intermolecular oxymercurations of allylic ethers is described. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.