Sentences with phrase «veterinary researchers»

A handful of veterinary researchers have begun to study natural compounds and their effects on common diseases with encouraging results.

Veterinary researchers continually work toward the development of better drugs for parasite control, and, currently, there are very good medications available for use in pets.

The good news is, there seems to be a renewed flurry of interest from veterinary researchers.

Fortunately, veterinary researchers immediately began work to isolate the cause of the epidemic and then to develop a vaccine to prevent it.

Low - carbohydrate diets (primarily canned food) have generated lots of talk recently in terms of prevention of diabetes in cats, but a 2007 study by veterinary researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands found no correlation between diets high in carbohydrates and feline diabetes.

The new guidelines follow the results of a study conducted at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (KSVDL) by veterinary researchers led by Dr. Michael C. Moore.2

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They enlisted the help of veterinary researchers who agreed to donate much of their time and services.

Other dogs can go deaf from a variety of causes, ranging from chronic ear infections or injuries to drug toxicity and old age, says George M. Strain, PhD, a leading veterinary researcher on the causes of deafness in dogs and a professor of neuroscience at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University.

In a recent study evaluating pain assessment in cats by veterinary researchers in North Carolina, cat owners reported they found it difficult to identify mild pain in their cats.

Veterinary researchers first documented the link between a lack of dietary taurine, an amino acid, and feline dilated cardiomyopathy, a fatal heart ailment.

Bioluminescence using luciferase and yellow fluorescent protein in a mouse model help veterinary researchers improve their knowledge of canine lymphoma.

The disease was transmitted by infected dogs, so local veterinary researchers began vaccinating local dogs.

Last October, Duccio Panzani, a 35 - year - old clinical veterinary researcher in equine reproduction at the University of Pisa, won a tenure - track ricercatore position in a concorso after a 3 - year postdoc.

If NIH follows through on the report, «Clearly there is going to be a reduction in the use of chimpanzees in research,» said veterinary researcher K. C. Kent Lloyd of the University of California, Davis, who chaired the working group of the NIH Council of Councils, to reporters.

Last week, a judge in Verona dismissed a host of criminal charges against veterinary researcher and former politician Ilaria Capua, including allegations that she deliberately set off avian influenza outbreaks that also caused a human epidemic — a crime that would have been punishable with life imprisonment if proven.

Veterinary researcher Dr Jean Dodds estimates that food intolerance is at least 10 to 15 times more common than food allergies.

Promising research into Cytauxzoon felis Veterinary researchers Dr. Leah Cohn and Dr. Adam Birkenheuer from the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. David Bird from North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine are currently studying new medications.

Legendary veterinary researcher Dr. Niels Pedersen, director at the Center of Companion Animal Health at the University of California School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, recently noted that the number of kittens who die from FIP is higher than previously thought.

After the 2004 outbreak, retrospective testing of archived lab samples was conducted, which indicates that the virus infected dogs as early as 1999.11,13 The 2004 outbreak in Florida was the «canary in the mineshaft» that alerted veterinary researchers and professionals to the condition.10

«This fellowship helps us to advance our knowledge in small animal nutrition, particularly as it relates to cancer, while providing a valuable opportunity for us to invest in the career development of a new veterinary researcher.»

Additionally, the Ohio State veterinary researchers have developed a new blood test to determine if a dog has the lung cancer mutation, the first available for any canine cancer.

The highly - regarded House Officer Program offers one - to three - year internships or residency training in more than 20 clinical specialties and the Clinician Scientist Training Program prepares veterinary researchers.

Veterinary researchers postulate that animals can be carriers of the bacteria and transfer it to humans, but it is much more likely for the animal to become colonized by a human carrier than the latter.

Veterinary researchers at Ohio State University studied the bite history of dogs confined to their family's property by fences, tethers and electronic fences.

The studies described above are being undertaken by veterinary researchers, all funded by the Morris Animal Foundation, whose passion is to improve animal health and well - being.

We hope it will also foster the next generation of veterinary researchers and highlight the importance of investigating diseases in these species.»

«With the number of dogs increasing and more contact between wildlife and dogs there is a risk of repetition,» says Sarah Cleaveland, a veterinary researcher at the Institute of Zoology in London.

The veterinary researchers analysed the brain tissue from cows that died from the disease and found similar fibrils.

Its presence in Norway's reindeer and moose — the first cases in Europe — is «a very serious situation for the environment and for our culture and traditions,» says Bjørnar Ytrehus, a veterinary researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim.

Her address, «A New Medical Research Model: Advancing Human and Animal Health Humanely,» will detail the concept of a new research model predicated on a meaningful commitment by both medical and veterinary researchers to work cooperatively together to address disease and disorders in humans and animals — evaluating genetic and environmental risk factors, sensitive diagnostic indicators and novel therapies.

A veterinary researcher at the Western University of Health Sciences in California has just published a study indicating that immunity in dogs is improved by feeding a whole foods diet.

Preparing the next generation of veterinarians, veterinary specialists, and veterinary researchers is why the State of North Carolina established the highly - ranked College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State.

Fortunately, veterinary researchers have developed drugs and treatments that reduce the occurrence and effects of many diseases and parasites, but they do not eradicate the scoundrels — they only hold them at bay.

The veterinary researchers developed a technique to take fat - derived stem cells taken from the cats, process the cells and give them back intravenously, with the goal of lowering inflammation and promoting tissue regeneration.

Veterinary researchers have asked this question, too, only to find that «grass eating is a common behavior in normal dogs unrelated to illness and that dogs do not regularly vomit afterward.

The nation's growing demographic diversity and the increasing impact of globalization underscores the need to prepare future companion animal veterinarians, food animal veterinarians, public health veterinarians and veterinary researchers, educators, and scientists with the knowledge, skill and cultural sensitivity to productively engage this complex emerging environment.

Veterinary researchers have found that aggressive dogs who are trained using aversive techniques do not improve, in fact most of them get even more aggressive!

Veterinary researchers are currently studying the use of CT pneumocolonography for dogs with large bowel disease.

Through the clinical trial, veterinary researchers can assess how effective the drug is in extending the dogs» lives and how long it takes for them to develop resistance, and translate those results to humans.

In fact, the whole theory of low - protein diets for dogs with kidney disease was blown apart in 1975 by David Kronfeld, PhD, who was at the time a veterinary researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1983, Dr. Gail Smith, a veterinary researcher at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, conceived and developed a new scientific method for the early diagnosis of Canine Hip Dysplasia (CHD).

Test breeding of epileptic dams and sires done by veterinary researchers have produced incidences of epilepsy in the offspring ranging from between 38 % (affected to nonaffected) to 100 % (breeding together of two affected dogs).

Schnelle was the veterinary researcher who first discovered canine hip dysplasia and subsequently sat on the newly - formed OFA board until he publically resigned in professional frustration.

The hereditability of OCD is not fully known but it is thought to be a disorder that is at least partially influenced by heredity and some veterinary researchers believe it is strongly influenced by heredity.