Veterinary Biochemistry

Introduction

Department of Veterinary Biochemistry

Department of Biochemistry came into existence after bifurcation of Department of Physiology & Biochemistry in the year 1948. Apart from teaching of undergraduate students, department has good facilities for post graduate teaching and research. The department has interdisciplinary interaction in teaching and research and offers technical guidance/ assistance on problem related to subject.

Department has made significant contribution in the field of rumen metabolism and effect of urea supplementation in ration on enzyme activities and other biochemical constituents, nutritional biochemistry, blood cell biochemistry of domestic animal and birds in health and disease condition along with genetic control of red blood corpuslces enzymes, biochemical polymorphism of different constituents and their relationship with economic trait in poultry, sheep and goat. biochemical study of saliva, cervical mucous, urine in farm animals, biochemical aids to disease diagnosis, biochemistry of embryogenesis in health and disease, biochemical aspects of male and female reproduction and cloning and characterization of antimicrobial peptides are some other major areas in which Department has made significant contributions.

Summer institute on “Instrumentation and analytical techniques in Veterinary Clinical Biochemistry” in 1983 and an international symposium on “foetal biology” in 1984 were organized by the Department. department has the distinction of having handled International foundation for science, Sweden funded research project “Biochemical investigation on exotic ram semen and development of artificial insemination programme using diluted and frozen semen”

Teaching

Teaching Programme:

Department is involved in teaching Veterinary Biochemistry to undergraduate (BVSc & AH) and Post-graduate (MVSc and PhD) students.

A. BVSc & AH Programmes:

As per the course curriculum of Veterinary Council of India, following courses are being offered/ taught at undergraduate level:

Course No.	Course Title	Credit Hours
Unit I	General veterinary Biochemistry	2+1
Unit II	Veterinary Intermediary metabolism	2+1
Unit III	Veterinary Analytical Biochemistry	2+1
VLC		0+6

B. MVSc Programme:

The MVSc with course work semester system was started w.e.f. 2009-10 academic year according to the new syllabus prescribed by ICAR.

Course No.	Course Title	Credit Hours
BCT 601	Biophysical Chemistry	2 + 0
BCT 602	Biochemistry of Biomolecules	2 + 0
BCT 603	Enzymology	2 + 1
BCT 604	Analytical Techniques and Instrumentation in Biochemistry	1 + 1
BCT 605	Clinical Biochemistry of Animals	2 + 1
BCT 606	Intermediary Metabolism and Regulation	3 + 0
BCT 607	Molecular Biochemistry	2 + 1
BCT 608	Nutritional and Industrial Biochemistry	2 + 0
BCT 609	Endocrinology and Reproductive Biochemistry	2 + 0
BCT 610	Biochemistry of Ruminants and Wild Animals	1 + 1
BCT 611	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology	1 + 1
BCT 612	Master’s Seminar	1 + 0
BCT 613	Master’s Research	0 + 30

C. PhD Programme:

The PhD with course work semester system was started w.e.f. 2009-10 academic year according to the new syllabus prescribed by ICAR.

Course No.	Course Title	Credit Hours
RPE700*	Research and Publications Ethics	1 + 1
BCT 701	Applied Molecular Biochemistry and Systems Biology	2 + 1
BCT 702	Membrane Biochemistry	2 + 0
BCT 703	Recent trends in Enzymology	2 + 1
BCT 704	Diagnostic Techniques in Clinical Biochemistry	0 + 2
BCT 705	Recent Trends in Biochemical Techniques and Instrumentation	2 + 1
BCT 706	Developmental Biochemistry	2 + 0
BCT 707	Bioinformatics Tools in Biochemistry	1 + 1
BCT 708	Environmental and Toxicological Biochemistry	2 + 0
BCT 709	Biochemistry of Diseases and Disorders	2 + 0
BCT 710	Immuno-Biochemistry	2 + 0
BCT 711	Special Problem	0 + 2
BCT 712	Doctoral Seminar-I	1 + 0
BCT 713	Doctoral Seminar-II	1 + 0
BCT 714	Doctoral Research	0+75

For effective teaching the Department has prepared and compiled following manuals and lecture notes for different courses of Biochemistry for the students.

Manuals

1. Laboratory Manual of General veterinary Biochemistry(VPB – 112)
2. Laboratory Manual of Veterinary Intermediary metabolism (VPB – 122)
3. Laboratory Manual of Animal Biotechnology. (VPB – 321)
4. Laboratory Manual of Clinical Biochemistry and laboratory diagnosis. (VLD – 411) NEW
5. Laboratory Manual of Clinical Biochemistry and laboratory diagnosis. (VLD – 421)
6. Laboratory Manual of Clinical Biochemistry and laboratory diagnosis. (VLD – 411)
7. Laboratory Manual of General veterinary Biochemistry (VBC – 111)
8. Laboratory Manual of Veterinary Intermediary metabolism (VBC – 122)

Lecture Notes:

1. Lecture note on VPB-112 & 122
2. Lecture note on VBC-411

Research

Ongoing Research Work in the Department: 

1. A study on milk proteome and biochemical analysis of milk and blood of mastitic and healthy Sahiwal cows.
2. Studies on Influence of certain blood adipokines and their genetic polymorphism on lactation of sahiwal cows
3. Studies on circulating Leptin level, polymorphism of LEP and LEPR genes in hariana cows.

Ongoing Research Project in the department:

Association of bovine leptin gene polymorphism with production and reproduction traits in primiparous dairy cows.

Research paper published in National or International Journals in 2014:

1. Vijay Pandey, Rajesh Nigam, Atul Saxena, Pawanjit Singh, Ambika Sharma, D K  Swain, and Lokesh Sharma (2014). Seasonal variations in biochemical attributes of Haryana Bull Semen. Ruminant Science 3(1):19-24
2. Dhirendra Singh, Rajesh Nigam, Vijay Pandey and Pawanjit Singh (2014). Influence of Andrographis paniculata supplementation on lipid and vitamin metabolism in stress induced rats. Veterinary Practitioner 15 (1): 84-85.
3. Vijay Pandey, Rajesh Nigam, Pawanjit Singh, Ambika Sharma, Atul Saxena, Dilip Kumar Swain, Lokesh Sharma and Shilpi Dixit (2014). Influence of Season on Biochemical Attributes of Bhadawari Buffalo Bull Semen: Effect of Temperature and Humidity. Journal of Animal Research 4(2):201-209.
4. Shailaza Sharma, Rajesh Nigam, Vijay Pandey, SS Ghuman and Pawanjit Singh (2014). Circulating levels of estradiol-17β and progesterone vis a vis nitric oxide (NO) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) at and around estrus in cycling buffaloes. Journal of Applied Animal Research. DOI: 10.1080/09712119.2014.963090.
5. Pawanjit Singh, Rajesh Nigam and Sanjiv Kumar (2013). Antioxidant effect of vitamin E and selenium supplementation in Hariana calves. Veterinary Practitioner 14 (2) Suppe. 1: 471-472.

Facilities

Following facilities are available in the Department of Veterinary Biochemistry