Sentences with phrase «in younger animals»

Many parasites are more common in younger animals, but pets of any age can get giardia or coccidian infections.

Rest will be necessary for your dog; in younger animals this will be around 2 - 4 weeks and in older animals 6 - 12 weeks.

Proper daily nutrition is an important factor in keeping your pet healthy, as it bolsters the immune system and supports normal development in younger animals.

In older cats, the liver often doesn't work as efficiently as it does in younger animals.

Too many greens can also cause wet tail, a highly contagious bacterial infection which causes diarrhea, especially in younger animals.

This condition is most commonly seen in middle - aged and older dogs, although some cases have been reported in younger animals as well.

Teeth can be strong indicators of a cat's potential age, especially in younger animals.

Most of these lesions are due to trauma, especially in younger animals and when solitary.

Multiple papillomas (papillomatosis) of skin or mucosal surfaces generally are seen in younger animals and are usually caused by viruses.

In younger animals, the corneal damage is often due to bumping into objects (no nose for a bumper guard).

Calling for all pets to be sterilized seems like an elegant solution to a perceived problem of overpopulation; few lawmakers are even aware of the veterinary community's concerns about mandating elective surgical procedures in younger animals.

Their capacity to divide, differentiate and repopulate tissues, which typically declines with an organism's advancing age, resembled those of their stem - cell counterparts in younger animals.

But Finch's results suggested instead that cells and genes in aged mammals function no differently from those in younger animals, given the right physiological milieu — in this case, a sufficient dose of glucocorticoids.

At certain stressful times in a young animal's life, as when it is weaned from its mother, it becomes particularly susceptible to disease.

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) have shown in a mouse model that the epigenetic * modification of the Igfbp2 ** gene observed in the young animal precedes a fatty liver in the adult animal later in life.

Sensory experience in young animals is instrumental in this phenomenon, and the sensory organs are the source of this developmental signal.

An infection with this parasite is most often seen in young animals.

The viruses that cause FMD (members of a diverse family of small RNA viruses called picornaviruses) are not all that deadly; they can cause fatal cardiac arrest in young animals, but most adult animals recover.

A single treatment involving injection of a genome editing cocktail prevented progressive hearing loss in young animals that would have otherwise gone deaf, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator David Liu and colleagues report December 20, 2017 in the journal Nature.

But osteochondritis is common in young animals, and often has no impact on a horse's training and performance, as later evidence showed.

«BPA harms dental enamel in young animals, mimicking human tooth defect.»

«Even in young animals, where many beta cells are still immature, you may have other beta cells that are at the end of their lifespan.

In young animals, immunological activation drives a conserved transcriptomic switch, resulting in tightly controlled gene expression characterized by a strong up - regulation of a core activation program, coupled with a decrease in cell - to - cell variability.

Few of the tested effects of rapamycin in our dataset were seen only in aged mice, not in young animals (RER, fat mass, γδ T cells, and CD44hi T cells); however, previous reports have shown aging - independent effects of mTOR inhibition on CD44 expression in T lymphocytes and fat mass (30, 31, 34).

The number and density of capillaries was the same as in young animals.

Furthermore, glutamine stimulates growth of the small intestinal mucosa in young animals and also enhances ion transport by the gut in neonates and adults.

glutamine stimulates growth of the small intestinal mucosa in young animals and also enhances ion transport by the gut in neonates and adults

In young animals, positive experiences — such as rich opportunities for exploration and social play — are beneficial after prenatal stress and postnatal neglect.

Other causes of lameness include developmental diseases in young animals, degenerative joint disease in older pets, immune - mediated joint disease, infectious joint diseases, neurological disorders, and cancer of the bones or joints.

When entropion occurs in young animals, eyelid tacking is used to temporarily evert (turn out) the eyelids.

In fact the presence of good humoral antibody levels blocks the anamnestic response to vaccine boosters just as maternal antibody blocks the response in some young animals.»

In young animals, tacking sutures or staples are placed to temporarily hold the eyelid everted while the animal grows, usually remaining in place for up to 4 - 6 weeks.

Juvenile cellulitis: an inflammation of cells (usually skin cells) occurring in the young animal.

Parvovirus can damage the heart mussel and cause lifelong cardiac problems in young animals that are infected.

Symptomatic SIBO typically presents in young animals as chronic intermittent small bowel diarrhoea, which may be accompanied by loss of body weight or failure to gain weight.

Hip dysplasia present in young animals as instability of the hip joint.

It typically presents in young animals as chronic intermittent small bowel diarrhoea, which may be accompanied by loss of body weight or failure to gain weight.

Farm animal medicine; the interface between health and production in growing animals; adaptive and transitional health in young animals.

Impaired growth in young animals.

Deficiency: Weak, easily broken bones with bowed limbs (termed rickets in young animals and osteomalacia in older animals).

The diseases these vaccines protect against are very serious, with mortality as high as 60 to 80 percent in young animals.

Vitamin D deficiency results in rickets in young animals and osteomalacia in adult animals.

It is a common cause of diarrhea in young animals and can cause vomiting as well.

Symptoms usually occur in young animals and include diarrhea and abdominal pain.

Coccidian parasites are relatively common residents of the intestinal tracts of animals, and actual infection of host animals often only occurs in young animals and after stress.

It is also more common in high - density populations like coteries and shelter and in young animals.

A few develop in young animals.

This herbal treatment is best for use in young animals.

Vomiting or diarrhea is not uncommon in young animals and the worms do consume the host» s food causing a nutrient deficiencies and the «pot bellied» appearance commonly associated with wormy puppies and kittens.

Your veterinarian may suspect a congenital heart defect if abnormal heart sounds are noted in a young animal or if symptoms of heart failure (difficulty breathing, coughing, fainting) develop early in an animal's life.