Disease relevance of Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

• Morbillivirus infection in a bottlenosed dolphin and a Mediterranean monk seal from the Atlantic coast of West Africa [1].
• Dermatitis with invasive ciliated protozoa in dolphins that died during the 1987-1988 Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin morbilliviral epizootic [2].
• Suspected acquired immunodeficiency in an Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin with chronic-active hepatitis and lobomycosis [3].
• Blastomycosis in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin [4].
• A treatment regimen for candidiasis in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin [5].

Psychiatry related information on Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

• Echolocation transmitting beam of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin [6].

High impact information on Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

• Epidermal growth in two mature female bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, was investigated by following the movement of a cohort of tritiated thymidine-labeled epidermal cells for 59 days [7].
• Complete amino acid sequence of the myoglobin from the Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin, Tursiops truncatus [8].
• Decreased lymphocyte responses in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are associated with increased concentrations of PCBs and DDT in peripheral blood [9].
• Radioimmunoassay of serum follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone in the bottlenosed dolphin [10].
• Baseline serum levels of progesterone and total immunoreactive estrogens were determined for intact and ovariectomized captive female Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), as well as newly captured wild adult females [11].

Biological context of Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

• Human chromosome-specific probes for the entire karyotype were hybridized to metaphase spreads of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, to directly compare the evolutionary conservation of chromosomal segments between these two distantly related species [12].
• Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin, Black Sea dolphin, horse and badger myoglobins, raised in high responder strains of mice, to ascertain whether there is genetic control of antibody affinity to mammalian myoglobins [13].
• In this study values for total cholesterol and triglycerides were measured in 110 blood samples taken from 360 days pre-partum to 90 days post-partum in ten parturitions of six bottlenose dolphins, and in 75 blood samples when the dolphins were not pregnant as a control group [14].

Anatomical context of Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

• Spermatozoa of the Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin, Tursiops truncatus [15].
• Using tyrosine hydroxylase immunohistochemistry we examined the structure of the pontine, or rostral rhombencephalic, catecholaminergic cells groups, which may be collectively termed the locus coeruleus complex (LC), in the bottlenose dolphin [16].
• Single cell gel electrophoresis (or Comet Assay) was used for evaluation of the in vitro genotoxicity of hydrogen peroxide (used as a positive control), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (Aroclor 1254) and methyl mercury chloride, in isolated bottlenose dolphin leukocytes [17].
• Hematologic, biochemical, and endocrine effects of dexamethasone on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) [18].
• Therefore, in this study immunohistochemistry techniques were used with species-specific and non-species-specific antibodies to characterize immune cells, primarily focusing on Langerhans cells, in skin from the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) [19].

Associations of Bottle-Nosed Dolphin with chemical compounds

• CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Serum LPO and alpha-tocopherol concentrations in captive bottle-nosed dolphins may be strongly influenced by high amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acid and LPO found in marine fatty fishes [20].
• Concentrations of progesterone in milk from bottlenose dolphins during different reproductive states [21].
• Here we assessed retinoids as biomarkers of contaminant exposure by studying whether the sex, age, lipid content and organochlorine concentrations of bottlenose dolphins induced variation in retinoid status and its deposition in blubber [22].
• In Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, serum cortisol levels exhibited the same episodic fluctuations for 24 h as did diurnal terrestrial mammals: cortisol levels were lower at 18:00 h and higher in the early morning [23].
• In this study, images of the brain of an adult bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, were scanned in the coronal plane at 148 antero-posterior levels [24].

Gene context of Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

• The Immunoglobulin G Heavy Chain (IGHG) genes of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus [25].
• Molecular cloning and expression of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) interleukin-8 [26].
• The bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) IL-1alpha and IL-1beta cDNA were cloned from mitogen stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) RNA utilizing the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) [27].
• Molecular cloning and functional expression of bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) interleukin-1 receptor antagonist [28].
• Therefore, the effects of capture were quantified by measuring plasma adrenal steroids and arginine vasopressin (AVP) in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) (n=31) [29].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

• The bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) interleukin-1 receptor antagonist IL-1ra cDNA was cloned from mitogen-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) RNA utilizing the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) [28].
• A solitary renal adenoma was an incidental finding at the pole of a kidney of an aged male Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) which had been captured in the Gulf of Mexico near St [30].
• Enrofloxacin serum bioactivity in bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, following oral administration of 5 mg/kg in whole fish [31].
• Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) interleukin-4 (IL4) cDNA was cloned and sequenced [32].

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