International collaboration with Department of physiology, Veterinary faculty, Montevideo, Uruguay on the theme: "Renal regulation of endogenous urea metabolism" aided in description of renal functions and urea handling in pregnant and lactating ewes. Responsible: Dr. Leng
International collaboration with Microbiological Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague was focused on the effects of white-rot mycetes on the digestibility of wheat straw. Responsible: Dr. Jalc
Collaboration with Laboratory of cell biology and electron microscopy, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France was concentrated on the role of nucleolus in preimplantation embryo development. New results about the structure-functional relationships of nucleolar components during nucleologenesis in bovine and rabbit embryo were obtained. Responsible:Dr. Baran
Continuing collaboration with INSERM U 440, Paris, France, led to a new knowledge about the intracellular distribution of phosphoprotein stathmin during preimplantation embryo development. Responsible: Dr. Koppel
Institute was involved also in the EU-Copernicus Project ERBCIPACT940160 (Belgium, Hungary, Romania) with the title Improvement of the quality, naturalness and shelf-life of food products by the use of selected bacteriocins from lactic acid bacteria. During the second year of project thorough characterisation of bacteriocin produced by Enteroccocus faecium CCM 4231 was accomplished. Responsible: Dr. Laukova