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In an animal study done by the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, adding goji to the diet supplied antioxidant activity that offered significant protection against skin disorders and lipid peroxidation of UV light damage.

The study was conducted by researchers at UCL, Rockefeller University, the Royal Free Hospital, the Francis Crick Institute, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, and the Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh.

«The H. contortus genome provides a rich and essential platform for future research in this and other types of parasitic worms,» says Professor Neil Sargison, author from the University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

To take the pulse of pig flu, we spoke with Chris Olsen, a professor of public health and head of the Olsen Laboratory, which studies influenza A viruses, at the University of Wisconsin — Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

The study, published online in Developmental Psychobiology, was conducted by Marguerite O'Haire, Ph.D., from the Center for the Human - Animal Bond in the College of Veterinary Medicine of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and colleagues in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

When asked about what sparked the study, author Keith Anderson from the University of Montana commented «As a geriatric social work researcher, I've always been interested in finding creative, cost effective ways to improve the lives and well - being of older adults... My co-authors direct the Veterinary Outreach Program, affiliated with The Ohio State University, which provides mobile wellness care for the pets of older adults and / or homebound residents.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

A new study by Martina Ondrovics and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna describes a rational approach to identifying proteins that might be involved in the larval development of a particular worm that infects pigs.

The new study's lead author, Barbara Wallner, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, paired these old, yet meticulously kept data with modern DNA sequencing techniques to investigate the origins of today's horse breeds.

In a study published online ahead of print in PLoS Pathogens, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine found evidence that the cytokine, Interleukin 27 (IL - 27), may be the key to fighting and treating these infections.

In a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, a research team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine took a different approach, using canine models of vision - robbing disorders.

Among those is canine compulsive disorder (CCD), the counterpart to human obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),» says the study's first and corresponding author Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVA, DACVB, professor in clinical sciences and section head and program director of animal behavior at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

The study builds on more than a decade of research from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the University of Massachusetts Medical School that in 2010 initially found the neural cadherin (CDH2) gene on canine chromosome 7 appeared to coincide with an increased risk of OCD.

Kathleen Colegrove of the University of Illinois was the lead veterinary pathologist of the latest in a series of studies analyzing the die - off.

But when the two scientists at the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna studied lab - raised dog and wolf packs, they found that wolves were the tolerant, cooperative ones.

Department of Genomics and Genetics, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK.

A team of scientists from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Duke University have conducted one of the first studies to directly compare canine and human B - cell lymphoma by examining molecular similarities and differences between the two species.

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

«We think the dogs in our study could have solved the task only by applying their knowledge of emotional expressions in humans to the unfamiliar pictures we presented to them,» says Corsin Müller of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

A study coming out in Science Translational Medicine and led by University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine researchers has shown that cats with NPC — which mirrors the human version of the disease — show vast improvements when treated with a compound called cyclodextrin.

«Our study demonstrates that dogs can distinguish angry and happy expressions in humans, they can tell that these two expressions have different meanings, and they can do this not only for people they know well, but even for faces they have never seen before,» says Ludwig Huber, senior author and head of the group at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna's Messerli Research Institute.

The new study provides «fascinating insight into life immediately after the bite, as the bloodsuckers make their escape,» says Richard Bomphrey, a biomechanist at the Royal Veterinary College of the University of London, who was not involved in the research.

Professor Griffin and the other leaders of the research team — Kent colleague Dr Michael Romanov as well as Dr Denis Larkin and Dr Marta Farré from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London — studied data from a total of 21 avian genomes and one reptile species.

The scientist Prof. Rupert Palme of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, was responsible for the biochemical analysis of the faecal samples in the study.

Participating in the study were: Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV), Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna; University of Veterinary Medicine of Vienna, Schönbrunn Zoo and the University of Bologna.

A recent Kansas State University study in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association is the first study to present scientific data for animals with out - of - date rabies vaccinations.

A new study by Kansas State University veterinary diagnosticians finds that pets with out - of - date rabies vaccinations are very unlikely to develop the fatal disease if given a rabies booster immediately after exposure to the virus.

«It's a new way to rationally develop antiviral drugs,» says veterinary microbiologist Jürgen Richt at Kansas State University, Manhattan, who was not involved in the study.

Professor Eric Fèvre, Chair of Veterinary Infectious Diseases at the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health said: «Although Laikipia County camel density is low relative to more northern regions of Kenya, our study suggests the population is sufficient to maintain high rates of viral transmission and that camels may be constantly re-infected and serve as long term carriers of the virus.

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

A study by the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Save Our Seas Shark Research Center and Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) and the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine just published in the journal BMC Genomics (lead author, postdoctoral associate Nicholas Marra,) now provides the first evidence that some shark and ray immunity genes have undergone evolutionary changes that may be tied to these novel immune system abilities.

During this study researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Surrey in collaboration with the University of Sao Paulo examined the impact of a low protein diet on the liver.

In a new study published in The Veterinary Journal, scientists from the University of Surrey warn about the numerous risks posed to racehorses from the misuse of cobalt chloride, a banned performance - enhancing agent that has been used illegally by trainers in Australia and USA.

Eight past studies looked at whether the sweetener causes cancer in lab animals, says veterinary pathologist James Swenberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The study's co-authors are Dr. Jörg Habersetzer, also of the Senckenberg Research Institute, and Dr. Christine Aurich of the University of Veterinary Medicine at Vienna and head of the Graf Lehndorff Institute of Equine Sciences.

However, my interest in reproductive behaviors and fishes can be blamed on George Barlow, my undergraduate advisor whose excitement about science, teaching and mentorship shifted my plans from veterinary school to graduate study in evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Barbara with Robert Warner (bringing me even closer to the ocean!).

Matt Boersma»04 Honors student with Seth Ramus, now at Johns Hopkins University, graduate student in Neuroscience Scott Herrick»04 Honors student with Seth Ramus, now at Rockefeller University, technician in the lab of Bruce McEwen Emily Thompkins»03 Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine Alexis Goldstein»03 Independent Study Research with Seth Ramus, now at The Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, graduate student Christopher Johnson»03 Laboratory technician at Brandeis University Kirsten George»03 Laboratory technician at Bowdoin (in professor thompson's lab) Kelly Dakin»02 Currently in the neuroscience grad program at Harvard Tyler Dunphee»02 Currently in medical school at U. Minnesota Lauren Axelrod»02 Currently in medical school at University Wisconsin Yen Wing Chu»01 Currently in the neuroscience grad program at Johns Hopkins Channing Paller»01 Currently an MD / PhD student at Harvard Shiva Gupta»01 Currently in Med School at New York Medical College Andrew Evans»01 Currently in the neuroscience grad program at U. Bristol in England Shawn Pelletier»01 Currently in pharmacology grad program at University Connecticut

The following institutions contributed to the study: Technical University of Munich (Central Institute of Translational Cancer Research, Clinic and Policlinic for Internal Medicine II, Institute of Pathology), DKTK and DKZF Heidelberg; The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge; Ludwig - Maximilians Universität (Anthropology & Human Genomics und Innere Medizin II des Klinikums Großhadern), Helmholtz Zentrum München (Research Unit Radiation Cytogenetics); Universidad de Oviedo (Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, IUOPA und CINN - CSIC), Instituto de Medicina Oncológica y Molecular de Asturias (IMOMA), Oviedo, University of Cambridge (Department of Veterinary Medicine), Instituto de Medicina Oncológica y Molecular de Asturias, Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria.

Eleanor Raffan, the study's lead author, is a University of Cambridge veterinary surgeon and geneticist.

University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, United Kingdom.

The study involved reserachers from the Yale School of Medicine (US), the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), the University of Barcelona, the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France), the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío in Seville, the University of Santiago de Compostela, the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), the University of Veterinary Medicine (Hungary) and the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona.

More than 30 percent of Americans live with at least one cat, and they re probably getting the same stress relief and happy - hormone release from their pet of choice that dog - owners get; there are simply fewer studies to prove it, says judge Alan Beck, ScD, director of the Center for Human - Animal Bond at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine.

Because of the tightly packed starchstructure of einkorn, the amylose is more slowly digested than amylopectin, thus lowering glucose and insulin levels in the blood after meals and maintaining satiety longer.J Sci Food Agric 2014; 94: 601 — 612In a 2003 study, researchers at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, in Frederiksberg, Denmark, compared three different loaves: einkorn bread made with honey - salt leavening; naturally - leavened einkorn bread made with crushed whole grains; and commercial yeast bread made with modern wheat.

Although she enjoyed her experiences in the United States, Maathai decided to return to Kenya, where, in 1971 she completed her doctoral studies in veterinary anatomy at the University of Nairobi.

She pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi where she also taught veterinary anatomy.

The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI) is part of the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) at the University of Nairobi.

We are delighted to welcome you to the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies and to the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi.

The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI), established in honor of the 2004 Peace Nobel Laurette Prof. Wangari Maathai, is located at College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) of the University of Nairobi.