The Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies maintains a tranquilization service when needed for the Peraheras and the elephants in must. This program provides training for fellowships for the academic staff, equipment, consumables inclusive of support for the ambulatory clinical services and short-term consultancies in the essential areas of the veterinary course. This project was sponsored by the Plant Task Force of the WHO Special Program of Research Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction. Plants exhibiting positive activity are subjected to fractionation procedures in order to isolate the active constituents. The results will form a Chapter in a Plant Task Force Monograph due to be published shortly.
Further work is currently underway on fractions derived from active plants.
Studies on the distribution of testicular phosphatases have been completed. The role of the epididymis in disposal of unejaculated spermatozoa is being investigated. It is hoped that it will be possible to undertake work related to embryo transfer at a later date. In particular a considerable amount of work is carried on the immunoglobulin classes of the sera of buffaloes infected with Toxocara vitulorum, a round worm with complex a life-cycle. Further extensive studies have been carried out to elucidate the development of T.vitulorum in the host, lactogenic transmission of the infection to the neonate calf from the dain and the colostral transmission of antibodies to calves shortly after birth.