Sentences with phrase «diseases affecting an animal»

It is both epizootic (an epidemic in non-humans) and panzootic (a disease affecting animals of many species especially over a wide area).

Prion diseases affect animals and people.

The ongoing epidemic of Ebola in West Africa has raised several questions about how the disease affects the animal population, and in particular, the risk to household pets.

Lyme Disease affects animals differently, and many display no clinical signs at all.

Although more research is needed, stem cell - based therapies hold promise for a wide range of diseases affecting all animal species.

Hundreds of skin diseases affect our animal companions, making their diagnosis and management both frustrating and challenging.

There are some diseases affecting an animal's entire body which can change your pet's breath.

Not exact matches

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«Loose animals can create additional risks of injury and disease to people in the affected area.»

«We expected to find that the majority of the animals would have normal airways, with only a small number actually affected with the disease, but that was not the case.»

We have mouse models for many of these diseases, says Zeng, so we can treat the brains of affected animals with the same dye - and - dice approach.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.

«This landmark study draws the conclusion in pre-clinical animal studies that stem cell therapy for disc degenerative disease might be a potentially effective treatment for the very common condition that affects people's quality of life and productivity,» said the senior author, Wenchun Qu, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn..

The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.

«What we considered is that for many mutations, there must be a buffering mechanism — another mutation that protects the animal from the detrimental affects of the disease - causing mutation,» Katsanis said.

He added that the existence of episodic memory in lower animals has implications for research on human diseases that affect memory, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, since the majority of research on the brain — and the drugs used to treat memory diseases and dementia — start out based on insights into how the brain works in rats.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Instead, the hardy little bird became a pest by eating crops, displacing some native birds, and harassing others, carrying 29 diseases that affect humans and domestic animals.

Both animals die from a severe gut disease that affects some CF patients.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted by prions.

«We should be able to eradicate, not just control, some of the major diseases affecting farm animals,» says Black.

Animal gait is affected in models of human disorders such as Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, spinal cord injury and many others.

The warfaring potential of diseases that affect animals is often overlooked.

Prion diseases are a group of rare, fatal brain diseases that affect animals and humans.

However, a task for the future will be to estimate the amount of glycine that can be supplied by microorganisms present in the digestive tract, which we have been unable to consider in the present study due to the absence of suitable data, but which may well affect the varying frequency of collagen - related diseases in animals with different systems of digestion.

In animal studies, intermittent fasting after injury improved brain function from stroke and diseases that affect the brain.

It typically depends on multiple factors such as the animal's age, severity of when heart disease starts, what part of the heart is affected, etc..

As the disease progresses, affected animals will lose their appetite, start vomiting and show lethargy.

Variation in genetic background may alter expression of the disease allele in affected animals, thus accounting for variation in phenotypic expression of the disease.

Canine distemper is a deadly, contagious disease that spreads through the air — from an infected animal sneezing or coughing affecting the respiratory system, the GI tract and the nervous system.

However, if the dog / bitch is identified as an affected animal at an early age, it is possible to take steps to prevent / minimise the possibility of it developing clinical disease.

It was established later (Johnson et al, 1980) that the form of the disease found in Bedlingtons terriers was apparently caused by the presence of an autosomal recessive gene in affected dogs - it is a genetic disorder and in order for the condition to develop in a dog / bitch a copy of this defective gene must have been passed to the affected animal by both parents, i.e. the affected dog must have two «copies» of the defective gene in its body cells.

In addition to harboring diseases that affect humans, such as ringworm, distemper, toxoplasmosis, leptospirosis and rabies, infected pets have the potential to transmit diseases into wild populations of animals.

Affecting all warm - blooded animals, there is no cure for rabies — it is a lethal disease.

This is especially important because these animals can often carry harmful diseases that can affect a pet, even if the pet has had proper vaccinations.

In 1989, a disease outbreak was observed among collared peccaries (javelina, Tayassu tajacu) in southern Arizona (USA) and canine distemper virus (CDV) was isolated from affected animals.

As an accomplished equine internist, infectious disease specialist, and equine neonatologist, Madigan has spent his career devoted to research discovery of disorders and diseases affecting large animals, and developing equipment and methods for animal rescue while expanding the field of veterinary disaster medicine.

Currently she is researching animal relief work in areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and is investigating infectious disease management at public animal shelters in Japan.

It is required by law that all cats, dogs, and ferrets are vaccinated for this disease, as it is easily transmitted through bites and contact with body fluids of affected animals.

In the absence of disease affecting the brain, animals are typically normal in between the epileptic seizures.

Although the animal's age when it was neutered affected its risk of disease, all five of the diseases analyzed were recorded at higher rates among neutered dogs compared to non-neutered dogs.

While the diagnosis of retinal degeneration is made by ophthalmoscopy and / or electroretinography, genetic testing for PRA can be useful for breeders to identify not only affected animals, but those that are genetic carriers for the disease.

Leptospirosis is a disease that can affect human and animals, including your pets.

VetSpecialists.com was developed in 2015 as a partnership between the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) and the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) to provide education about diseases and conditions affecting animals and to increase awareness of veterinary specialty medicine to the animal owning community.

This disease is not fatal but can cause great pain to the affected dog and slowly, methodically, debilitate the animal.

Across Australia, VBB volunteers stand ready to deliver prompt treatment to animals affected by natural disaster or outbreak of exotic disease.

Neutering and the age at which a dog is neutered may affect the animal's risk for developing certain cancers and joint diseases, according to a study published Feb. 13 in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE.

Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds killed by cats had significantly lower mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle mass scores» than birds of the same species killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.

Heartworm disease affects over 30 species of animals.