Santanu Panda

Institute of Animal Health and Veterinary Biologicals, Kolkata · Animal Resources Development Department

Several sperm lysozyme-like genes evolved from lysozyme by successive duplications and mutations; however their functional role in the reproduction of farm animals is not well understood. To understand the function and molecular properties of buffalo sperm lysozyme-like protein 1 (buSLLP1), it was expressed in E. coli; however, it partitioned to in...

Background: In farm animals, there is no suitable cell line available to understand liver-specific functions. This has limited our understanding of liver function and metabolism in farm animals. Culturing and maintenance of functionally active hepatocytes is difficult, since they survive no more than few days. Establishing primary culture of hepat...

Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) existing in two interconvertible forms, xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) and xanthine oxidase (XO), catabolises xanthine to uric acid that is further broken down to antioxidative agent allantoin. XOR also produces free radicals serving as second messenger and microbicidal agent. Large variation in the XO activity has been...

For prediction of cattle bull fertility using buffalo hemizonae by hemizona assay present study was done in homologous {cattle sperms binding to cattle hemizonae (group 1)} and heterologous {cattle sperms binding to buffalo hemizonae (group 2)} system. Known fertility frozen semen of four cattle bulls (36.7 to 51.8%) were grouped into control (two...