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A liquid chromatographic tandem mass spectrometric method for the determination of sulfa drugs in beeswax was developed. When performing residue control on beeswax intended for the fabrication of wax foundations, residues of sulfonamides were found. A migration test was set up to study whether sulfonamide-containing beeswax could lead to the contamination of honey. The higher the concentration of sulfamethazine doped in the wax, the higher was the concentration of sulfamethazine found in the honey. The maximum transfer was 15.6, 56.9, and 29.5% of the initial amount spiked in the wax foundation. In a second experiment, the percentage of sulfamethazine migrating from medicated winter feed to beeswax in relation to the concentration in the syrup and the contact time was studied. The maximum transfer of sulfamethazine from medicated sucrose syrup to beeswax was 3.1%.

Lentiviral vectors are now well recognized as good vehicles for gene delivery. This is because they can efficiently transduce both dividing and post-mitotic cells, and stably integrate into the host genome allowing for long-term expression of the transgene. Their potential utility for the generation of transgenic animals has been recognized as an attractive and promising alternative to the conventional DNA-microinjection method which lacks efficiency. The initial success of lentiviral transgenesis in mice considerably broadened its use in other species, in which classical transgenic techniques are difficult, such as in the rat.In this chapter, we describe detailed procedures for both the production of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1)-derived lentiviral vectors and for the generation of transgenic rats by injection of these vectors into the perivitelline space of fertilized one-cell eggs.