Table of Contents Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2012
Instructions for Authors	1
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
In vitro assessment of the digestibility of forage based sheep diet, supplemented with raw garlic, garlic oil and monensin Ehsan Anassori, Bahram Dalir-Naghadeh, Rasoul Pirmohammadi, Akbar Taghizadeh, Siamak Asri-Rezaei, SafaFarahmand-Azar, Maghsoud Besharati, Morteza Tahmoozi	5
Escherichia coli O157:H7/NM prevalence in raw beef, camel, sheep, goat, and water buffalo meat in Fars and Khuzestan provinces, Iran Ebrahim Rahimi, Hamid Reza Kazemeini, Mohammad Salajegheh	13
Atrazine in sub-acute exposure results in sperm DNA disintegrity and nuclear immaturity in rats Sajad Feyzi-Dehkhargani, Rasoul Shahrooz, Hassan Malekinejad, Rajab-Ali Sadrkhanloo	19
Comparative histomorphometrical study of genital tract in adult laying hen and duck Ahmad-Ali Mohammadpour, Abdolkarim Zamanimoghadam, Massoumeh Heidari	27
Investigation of hematological and biochemical parameters in small ruminants naturally infected with Babesia ovis Bijan Esmaeilnejad, Mousa Tavassoli, Siamak Asri-Rezaei	31
Characterization of single nucleotide polymorphism in the 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) of Lactoferrin gene and its association with reproductive parameters and uterine infection in dairy cattle Abolfazl Hajibemani, Hassan Sharifiyazdi, Abdolah Mirzaei, Abbas Rowshan Ghasrodashti	37
Defense cells profile of cervical mucous during follicular and luteal phases of estrus cycle in river buffalo Esmail Ayen, Shapour Hasanzadeh, Saleh Tabatabaei	45
Effects of chitosan on hematological parameters and stress resistance in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Saeed Meshkini, Ali-Akbar Tafy, Amir Tokmechi, Farhad Farhang-Pajuh	49
Relationship between blood urea, protein, creatinine, triglycerides and macro-mineral concentrations with the quality and quantity of milk in dairy Holstein cows Shahram Nozad, Ali-Gholi Ramin, Gholamali Moghadam, Siamak Asri-Rezaei, Azadeh Babapour, Sina Ramin	55
Prevalence and morphological characterizations of Linguatula serrata nymphs in camels in Isfahan Province, Iran Farid Rezaei, Mousa Tavassoli, Moosa Javdani SHORT COMMUNICATION	61
Subulura brumpti infection - An outbreak in Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) Kumaresan Nagarajan, Desigan Thyagarajan, Muthusamy Raman CLINICAL REPORT	67
Surgical treatment of bumblefoot in a captive golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Seyedeh Leila Poorbaghi, Moosa Javdani, Saeed Nazifi	71