Sentences with phrase «small animal disease»

The new AFSCAN clinical research program aims to provide veterinarians working in African universities with funding to undertake locally relevant investigations related to small animal disease and welfare.

Where appropriate it is within the remit of the committee to instigate surveys and projects on small animal disease.

BSAVA's scientific committee has developed resources on a number of topics in small animal disease and practice.

His numerous awards include the Ralston Purina Award for research excellence in small animal diseases.

Not exact matches

In the past 20 years the vast majority of small pork producers have given way to big agribusiness, and the big guys resorted to regularly dosing their animals with antibiotics to keep disease from spreading through thousands of hogs kept in close quarters.

«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.»

«The animals — who are housed in unbearably small cages — live with fear, stress, disease, parasites and other physical and psychological hardships...» reports PETA.

Coyotes are overtaking the red fox, which feeds on small mammals such as mice, shrews and chipmunks, animals that, like deer, can play host to the Lyme - disease - carrying ticks

Small - animal imaging has become an important research tool for preclinical studies of infectious diseases, according to senior author Thomas M. Bocan, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).

And finally, once vaccinations are used, it is much harder for a country to show that it's disease free; the virus could be lurking in a small number of animals.

The red fox feeds on small mammals such as mice, shrews and chipmunks, animals that, like deer, can play host to the Lyme - disease - carrying ticks.

In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.

Some are missing small chunks of their fins — evidence that a shark took an exploratory bite when the animal was slowed by disease or after its organs gave out.

Martin Kaplan, a rabies consultant to the WHO, recently told a joint meeting in London of the Royal Society of Health and the British Small Animal Veterinary Association that the risks of a properly vaccinated animal becoming infected and transmitting the disease are «vanishingly small&raSmall Animal Veterinary Association that the risks of a properly vaccinated animal becoming infected and transmitting the disease are «vanishingly small&rAnimal Veterinary Association that the risks of a properly vaccinated animal becoming infected and transmitting the disease are «vanishingly small&ranimal becoming infected and transmitting the disease are «vanishingly small&rasmall».

So intrepid researchers from the International Center for Medical Research of Franceville in Gabon set out to trap small animals that might harbor the disease from forest regions that had recently been devastated, starting in 2001.

FAO estimates that the disease causes more than $ 2 billion in losses annually and is an economic disaster for the small herders and poor rural households that depend on the animals for milk, meat, wool, and leather both for their own use and for trade.

For animals, this could mean making sure a population doesn't get so small that something like a disease outbreak — such as the one that happened with saiga antelope in 2015 — or a really bad winter results in extinction.

Next - generation sequencing — the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel — has revolutionized the biological sciences, playing an essential role in everything from locating mutations that cause human disease to determining how a newly discovered animal fits into the tree of life.

The findings may influence the way wildlife managers look after small populations, says Hogg, whose team reported its findings online 28 February in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. Managers often like to keep animals away from other populations to minimize the spread of disease, he says, but the study shows «it makes sense to manage with both disease and genetics in mind.»

Mackenzie is one of a small band of scientists who are trying to work out why Australia is suffering from a rash of «zoonoses», diseases that jump from animals to humans, and why, in almost every case, a bat features somewhere in the story.

Anyamba, A., K. J. Linthicum, J. L. Small, K. M. Collins, C. J. Tucker, E. W. Pak, S. C. Britch, J. R. Eastman, J. E. Pinzon, and K. L. Russell, 2012: Climate teleconnections and recent patterns of human and animal disease outbreaks.

While Mafra - Neto acknowledges that mosquitoes play a small role in the food chain, helping sustain small animals like fish and spiders, he would like to see fewer of them around, particularly in disease - ravaged countries.

The objective is to support innovative projects dedicated to the development and the study of rare disease models using small animals (mouse model excepted) such as zebrafish, drosophila, nematode, rat and rabbit.

The French Foundation for rare diseases (Fondation des maladies rares), in partnership with TEFOR infrastructure, launches its first call for research projects «Small animal models and rare diseases».

Parasites and disease are a huge component of the lives of modern animals, dinosaurs would be no different, and now we have another small insight into how such interactions might have looked.

Even smaller oxygen declines can stunt growth in animals, hinder reproduction and lead to disease or even death.

Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 infection of IFNγ unresponsive mice: a small animal model for gammaherpesvirus - associated B - cell lymphoproliferative disease.

And since small animals can not be infected with Hepatitis C, they can not be used to test drugs that may cure this disease.

Since 2006 when Biomedcode was established, we have evaluated hundreds of therapeutics including novel biologics, biosimilars, biobetters and small molecules using a unique array of animal disease models closely mimicking the complexity of human inflammatory conditions.

The Center for Predictive Medicine recognizes the challenges of translational research such as in designing and implementing high - throughput screens and assessing small molecules and potential vaccines for their efficacy in small animal models of disease.

Big and small farms alike should carefully test newly purchased animals for Johne's and other diseases, says Collins.

To build upon the encouraging early discoveries, Helmsley renewed and expanded its Crohn's funding for the Institute in 2013 to begin new work with three major aims: 1) continue studies of individual genes to determine how genetic differences between Crohn's patients and healthy individuals contribute to the disease; 2) evaluate promising small molecules in disease - relevant studies and prioritize insights from genetics to help develop novel therapeutics; and 3) begin basic experimentation in animal models with Crohn's disease to provide the data necessary to begin testing new therapies in humans.

Experiments involving people and animals show that «small amounts of an alcoholic beverage, especially wine, are associated with less atherosclerosis [clogged arteries] and coronary heart disease — even in rats, mice, and pigeons,» he said.

So with even small increases in animal products and with the plant nutrition reduced, it seems only logical that the diseases of affluence would be beginning to take hold.

That is, assuming it's true that «even relatively small intakes of animal - based food» yield disease.

On their native diet they are free of disease and exceptionally hardy.17 An extensive study of diet and disease patterns in China found that the region in which the populace consumes large amounts of whole milk had half the rate of heart disease as several districts in which only small amounts of animal products are consumed.18 Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat — including highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese — comprises up to 70 % of their caloric intake.

actually, muskratboy, whey is an animal protein used in many reliable and valid studies that have shown that even a small amount of animal protein leads to a high risk of developing a «diseases of affluence» (diabetes, heart disease, cancer).

The science is clear that high quality saturated and mono unsaturated fats are better for you than poly unsaturated and trans fats, and it also seems clear that eating small amounts of these high - quality fats may be beneficial... But there is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that basing one's diet on these fats is beneficial in the long run, and there is several decades» worth of research to suggest that eating too much fat and animal products is linked to cardiovascular disease.

If someone has been eating the standard american diet for a long time and now has standard american diseases like heart disease and type 2 diabetes, there folks are better off cutting out all animal products if they want to reverse their health issues whereas someone who has been healthy his or her whole life may be able to have a small amount of animal products without terrible health consequences.

Humans in some populations have been dying of heart disease and cancer for a long time too (while other populations avoid these diseases by eating extremely small amounts of eggs and other animal products).

Dogs are often vulnerable to rabies because they can come in contact will small animals who might be infected with the disease.

He has a special interest in small animal cardiology and takes internal referrals for heart scans and other heart disease cases.

The number one most commonly diagnosed health problem in small animal veterinary practice is a dental disease.

Please click into the heartworm disease tab under the small Animal Hot Topics page for more information!

The Neurology and Neurosurgery Service in the Bailey Small Animal Teaching Hospital at Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine is offering stereotactic surgery to treat animals with brain disease, one of the few veterinary teaching hospitals to do so.

Each of these dogs has been used to hunt small and large game and also to hunt for rodents and other pesky animals that carried disease.

Small animal nephrology and urology Nephroliths and ureteroliths (kidney and ureter stones) Minimally invasive urology procedures including shock wave lithotripsy, laser lithotripsy, laser ablation of ectopic ureters, and periurethral collagen injection for treatment of urinary incontinence Nutritional therapy of urinary tract disease Problem - based learning in veterinary education Client communications

It is probably not rare to have a need of anesthetizing small animal patients with common endocrine diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism and hypoadrenocorticism.

For an examination of degenerative joint disease - associated pain and hypersensitivity in cats, $ 23,560 was awarded to Santosh Mishra, assistant professor of neuroscience, and Duncan Lascelles, professor of small animal and pain management.

SAVSNET encompasses two distinct, but complementary approaches, Project 1 and Project 2, designed to investigate the disease status of the small animal vet - visiting population.