Sentences with phrase «feather follicle»

Like a hair follicle, a feather follicle will not stimulate growth for a new feather unless the old one has been removed.

After you have plucked the blood feather, place a pinch of cornstarch on the affected area to help aid clotting, and use a piece of sterile gauze to apply pressure to the feather follicle until the bleeding has stopped.

In addition, the team examined the relationship between sleep and the expression of a gene in the feather follicles involved in producing dark, melanic feather spots.

Marek's disease spreads when infected birds shed the virus from their feather follicles, which is then inhaled with dust by other chickens.

The presence of H5N1 virus antigens in feather follicles, associated with histological lesions, was first assessed and described by Perkins and Swayne in 2001 [32].

Not exact matches

The researchers measured the zinc and lead concentrations in two large feathers removed from each bird's wings when they were first caught, and then did the same 1 year later for replacement feathers that had grown from the same follicle.