Sentences with phrase «processes occurring in your dog»

The ability of veterinarians to obtain these blood values gives us tremendous insight into the processes occurring in your dog or cat's body.

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The process of integrating naturally occurring cancers in dogs into the general studies of human cancer biology and therapy is known as comparative oncology.

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs both in animals and humans alike when two stimuli are repeatedly paired (such as the bell ringing and the feeding, or a particular behavior and the electric shock), so that the response originally elicited by the second stimulus (the secretion of saliva that originally occurs in the presence of food or the unpleasant sensation that follows an electric shock) is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (meaning that after a number of repetitions, the sound of the bell is enough to make the dog salivate like it does in the presence of food and the engagement in unwanted behavior is enough to make you feel the same discomfort an electric shock would cause).

This enlargement of the prostate gland is a normal aging process that occurs in intact male dogs and humans and is termed benign prostatic hypertrophy, benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH.

That is because the dog's mast cells and the processes that liberate histamine from them occur in the deeper skin layers.

Water facilitates every metabolic process that occurs in a dog's body, Otto says.

Chronic hepatitis in dogs, also called inflammatory canine hepatic disease, refers to a syndrome in which death of hepatic cells (hepatocellular necrosis) has occurred and is associated with a chronic inflammatory process which typically progresses to liver fibrosis (replacement of hepatic tissue with fibrous tissue) and cirrhosis (progressive derangement of the liver architecture and function).

To determine whether similar processes occur in the aging dog, changes in markers of inflammation and oxidative stress were investigated in 80 Labrador retrievers from adulthood to the end of life.

It should be noted that many dogs that develop HGE will have experienced no other preliminary health problems; this disease process can occur in completely healthy pets without warning.

Vestibular Disease can be caused by infection and tumors; however, in older dogs it is commonly an inflammatory process that may occur and resolve spontaneously.

Any time the seizures are too frequent they can cause a process call «kindling» in which further (non-epileptic) brain cells are affected adversely leading to the next set of seizures occurring even sooner or lasting longer.8 Eventually some dogs have very frequent clusters of seizures happening multiple time in one day, or go into a continuous seizure (status epilepticus) which is life threatening and can lead to permanent brain damage or death.

The aging process is one that occurs over a period of years and each dog may start to feel the effects of old age at a different time in life.

When dog bites do occur, a Toledo dog bite lawyer can assist in recovering damages and walking the injured party through the legal claims process.