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  1. Feeding polyphenol-rich plant products has been shown to increase the gain:feed ratio in growing pigs. The reason for this finding has not yet been elucidated. In order to find the reasons for an increase of t...

    Authors: Anja Fiesel, Denise K Gessner, Erika Most and Klaus Eder
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:196
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  2. Eating and rumination variables were recorded in ten healthy cows over 5 days (group A) to generate reference intervals for comparison with the same variables recorded in ten cows in advanced pregnancy from te...

    Authors: Ueli Braun, Theresa Tschoner and Michael Hässig
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:195
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  4. In 2013, a novel H7N9 avian influenza virus (AIV) was isolated from ill humans in Shanghai and Anhui Province, China. Since then, the virus has spread quickly throughout China. Previous isolation of H7N2 virus...

    Authors: Pei Zhou, Malin Hong, Mary M Merrill, Huamei He, Lingshuang Sun and Guihong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:203
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  5. The aim of the present study was to compare the osteogenic potential of mesenchymal stem cells extracted from the bone marrow (BM-MSCs) and adipose tissue (AD-MSCs) of young dogs. The following parameters were...

    Authors: Endrigo GL Alves, Rogéria Serakides, Jankerle N Boeloni, Isabel R Rosado, Natália M Ocarino, Humberto P Oliveira, Alfredo M Góes and Cleuza MF Rezende
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:190
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  6. Periodontal disease (PD) is the most widespread oral disease in dogs and has been associated with serious systemic diseases. The disease is more prevalent in small breeds compared to large breeds and incidence...

    Authors: Mark D Marshall, Corrin V Wallis, Lisa Milella, Alison Colyer, Andrew D Tweedie and Stephen Harris
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:166
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  7. Our understanding of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has changed enormously over the past 30 years, from a waterborne infection causing outbreaks of acute hepatitis in developing countries to an infection of global di...

    Authors: Quan Shen, Yingyan Pu, Xingli Fu, Ying Xie, Xiaobo Bian, Shixing Yang, Yan Yang, Li Cui, Xiaochun Wang, Hua Wang and Wen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:188
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  8. Yersiniosis is a zoonotic disease reported worldwide. Culture and PCR based protocols are the most common used methods for detection of pathogenic Yersinia species in animal samples. PCR sensitivity could be incr...

    Authors: Maialen Arrausi-Subiza, Jose Carlos Ibabe, Raquel Atxaerandio, Ramon A Juste and Marta Barral
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:192
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  9. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a useful biomarker for the early prediction of renal diseases. NGAL may exist as monomer, dimer and/or NGAL/MMP-9 complex forms in humans. In this study, th...

    Authors: Wei-Li Hsu, Hsiao-Chi Chiou, Kwong-chung Tung, Guillaume Belot, Anais Virilli, Min-Liang Wong, Fong-Yuan Lin and Ya-Jane Lee
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:202
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  10. Articular cartilage, because of its avascular nature, has little capacity for spontaneous healing, and tissue engineering approaches, employing different biomaterials and cells, are under development. Among th...

    Authors: Edivaldo AN Martins, Yara M Michelacci, Raquel YA Baccarin, Bruno Cogliati and Luis CLC Silva
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:197
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  11. This study investigated effects on cardiovascular parameters during anaesthesia with isoflurane (ISO, 2-3 Vol%), ketamine-xylazine (KX, 100 mg kg-1 + 5 mg kg-1) or a combination of medetomidine-midazolam-fentanyl...

    Authors: Maike Albrecht, Julia Henke, Sabine Tacke, Michael Markert and Brian Guth
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:198
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  12. Interest in Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS) has recently increased in part due to a growing awareness of the differences between squamous and glandular disease. The pathophysiology and epidemiology of squ...

    Authors: Ben W Sykes, Katja M Sykes and Gayle D Hallowell
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:180
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  13. Establishment of haematological and biochemical reference intervals is important to assess health of animals on individual and population level. Reference intervals for 13 haematological and 34 biochemical var...

    Authors: Anne Randi Græsli, Åsa Fahlman, Alina L Evans, Mads Frost Bertelsen, Jon Martin Arnemo and Søren Saxmose Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:183
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  14. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is an important growth factor in regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, survival and apoptosis. Studies showed that food-grade Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis) and NICE exp...

    Authors: Dingyue Wang, Shengyu Xu, Yan Lin, Zhengfeng Fang, Lianqiang Che, Bai Xue and De Wu
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:171
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  15. Lameness is a common problem in modern swine husbandry. It causes welfare problems in affected pigs as well as financial problems for farmers. To minimize these negative consequences of lameness, new treatment...

    Authors: Ellen Meijer, Maarten Oosterlinck, Arie van Nes, Willem Back and Franz Josef van der Staay
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:193
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  16. Little is known concerning the prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in dogs in Mexico. Here, we investigated antibodies to T. gondii and associated risk factors in 101 dogs from an animal shelter in Veracruz...

    Authors: Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, Dora Romero-Salas, Anabel Cruz-Romero, Zeferino García-Vázquez, Álvaro Peniche-Cardeña, Nelly Ibarra-Priego, Concepción Ahuja-Aguirre, Adalberto A Pérez-de-León and Jitender P Dubey
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:191
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  17. The exact aetiology of canine sino-nasal aspergillosis (SNA) is unknown. In man, dysfunction in innate immunity, particularly in the function of pattern recognition receptors, is implicated in the pathogenesis...

    Authors: Elise Mercier, Iain R Peters, Frédéric Farnir, Rachel Lavoué, Michael Day, Cécile Clercx and Dominique Peeters
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:187
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  18. Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a fatal disease caused by feline coronavirus (FCoV). FCoVs are divided into two serotypes with markedly different infection rates among cat populations around the world. ...

    Authors: Ying-Ting Wang, Ling-Ling Chueh and Cho-Hua Wan
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:186
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  19. The success of tracing cattle to the herd of origin after the detection and confirmation of bovine tuberculosis (TB) lesions in cattle at slaughter is a critical component of the national bovine TB eradication...

    Authors: Heather M Humphrey, Kathleen A Orloski and Francisco J Olea-Popelka
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:182
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  21. After the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Korea, a vaccination policy has been applied to control the disease. In addition, several non-specific immune stimulators have been used without any...

    Authors: Myunghwan Jung, Min-Kyoung Shin, Seung-Bin Cha, Seung Won Shin, Anna Yoo, Won-Jung Lee, Hong-Tae Park, Jong-Hyeon Park, Byounghan Kim, Yeon-Kwon Jung and Han Sang Yoo
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:179
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  22. Decreasing the rate of protein emptying from the stomach may improve efficiency of utilization of dietary amino acids for protein deposition. Some studies in rats and humans have shown casein to be more slowly...

    Authors: Tanya J Tycholis, John P Cant, Vern R Osborne and Anna K Shoveller
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:177
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  23. When increased serum cobalamin concentrations are encountered clinically they are usually attributed to parenteral supplementation, dietary factors, or otherwise ignored. However, recently, hypercobalaminaemia...

    Authors: Mary R Trehy, Alexander J German, Paolo Silvestrini, Goncalo Serrano and Daniel J Batchelor
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:175
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  24. Alpha adrenergic drugs are usually used in the treatment of erectile and ejaculatory dysfunction in humans. The influence of such drugs on the seminal characteristics of wild animals has not been verified; whe...

    Authors: Ariana LC de Paiva, Talyta L Nunes, Maria GC de Oliveira, Alessandro ML de Morais, Érika AA dos Santos, Alexandre R Silva, Moacir F de Oliveira and Valéria V de Paula
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:170
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  25. Testicular tumors are the most common genital neoplasms in male dogs, with Leydig cell tumors (LCT), seminomas (SEM), and Sertoli cell tumors (SCT) the most common forms. Human SEM are classified as classical ...

    Authors: Marko Hohšteter, Branka Artuković, Krešimir Severin, Andrea Gudan Kurilj, Ana Beck, Ivan-Conrado Šoštarić-Zuckermann and Željko Grabarević
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:169
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  26. Since its initial detection in May 2013, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) has spread rapidly throughout the US swine industry. Initially, contaminated feed was proposed as a risk factor for PEDV; however...

    Authors: Scott Dee, Travis Clement, Adam Schelkopf, Joel Nerem, David Knudsen, Jane Christopher-Hennings and Eric Nelson
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:176
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  27. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) has become a worldwide endemic disease of pigs. In 2006, an atypical and more virulent PRRS (HP-PRRS) emerged in China and spread to many countries, includi...

    Authors: Weerapong Thanapongtharm, Catherine Linard, Nutavadee Pamaranon, Sarayuth Kawkalong, Tanom Noimoh, Karoon Chanachai, Tippawon Parakgamawongsa and Marius Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:174
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  29. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of feeding a high-concentrate corn straw diet on the release of endotoxin in the rumen and the changes of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the mammary gl...

    Authors: Jun Zhou, Guozhong Dong, Changjin Ao, Sen Zhang, Min Qiu, Xi Wang, Yongxia Wu, Khas Erdene, Lu Jin, Chunlong Lei and Zhu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:172
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  30. Feather pecking and cannibalism are major concerns in poultry farming, both in terms of animal welfare and farm economics. Genetic selection and introduction of (aspects of) maternal care have been suggested a...

    Authors: Susie E Hewlett, Elly C Zeinstra, Frank JCM van Eerdenburg, TB Rodenburg, Peter JS van Kooten, FJ van der Staay and Rebecca E Nordquist
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:167
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  31. In this study, four lung lesion scoring methods (Slaughterhouse Pleurisy Evaluation System [SPES], Consolidation Lung Lesion Score [LLS], Image analyses [IA] and Ratio of lung weight/body weight [LW/BW]) were ...

    Authors: Marina Sibila, Virginia Aragón, Lorenzo Fraile and Joaquim Segalés
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:165
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  32. Newcastle disease (ND) caused by virulent Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is an acute, highly contagious and fatal viral disease affecting most species of birds. Ducks are generally considered to be natural rese...

    Authors: Yabin Dai, Xu Cheng, Mei Liu, Xinyue Shen, Jianmei Li, Shengqing Yu, Jianmin Zou and Chan Ding
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:164
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  33. In order to provide new knowledge on the storage of strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), chromium (Cr), antimony (Sb), selenium (Se) and lead (Pb) in the feline or...

    Authors: Nadine Paßlack, Barbara Mainzer, Monika Lahrssen-Wiederholt, Helmut Schafft, Richard Palavinskas, Angele Breithaupt and Jürgen Zentek
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:163
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  34. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an emerging public health problem, may be a highly atherogenic condition. But the relationship between fatty liver diseases and carotid atherosclerosis in small-anima...

    Authors: Jing Wu, Hua Zhang, Hao Zheng and Ying Jiang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:162
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  35. Environmental contamination by pharmaceuticals is a public health concern: drugs administered to humans and animals are excreted with urine or faeces and attend the sewage treatment. The main consequences of u...

    Authors: Giorgio Smaldone, Raffaele Marrone, Silvia Cappiello, Giuseppe A Martin, Gaetano Oliva, Maria L Cortesi and Aniello Anastasio
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:161
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  36. Exportin 1 (XPO1, also known as CRM1), is a chaperone protein responsible for the export of over 200 target proteins out of the nucleus. The expression and activity of XPO1 is upregulated in several human canc...

    Authors: Megan N Breit, William C Kisseberth, Misty D Bear, Yosef Landesman, Trinayan Kashyap, Dilara McCauley, Michael G Kauffman, Sharon Shacham and Cheryl A London
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:160
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  37. In any calf rearing system it is desirable to obtain healthy animals, and reduce morbidity, mortality, and economic losses. Bovine syndesmochorial placentation prevents the direct transfer of bovine immunoglob...

    Authors: Teódulo Quezada-Tristán, Viridiana L García-Flor, Raúl Ortiz-Martínez, José L Arredondo-Figueroa, Leticia E Medina-Esparza, Arturo G Valdivia-Flores and Ana L Montoya-Navarrete
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:159
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  38. Toxoplasmosis, caused by the obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii, is an important zoonotic disease worldwide. The precise detection of T. gondii infection in dogs has important public health signifi...

    Authors: Zedong Wang, Wei Ge, Si-Yang Huang, Jiping Li, Xing-Quan Zhu and Quan Liu
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:158
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  39. Chemokines such as MIP-3β/CCL19 are important factors in the mechanism of cell migration and pathogenesis of central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory reactions. The hypothesis of this study is that CCL19, als...

    Authors: Janina Bartels, Brett G Darrow, Scott J Schatzberg, Lijing Bu, Regina Carlson and Andrea Tipold
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:157
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  40. The routine diagnosis of Streptococcus spp. and other mastitis associated gram-positive, catalase-negative cocci is still based upon biochemical tests and serological methods, which frequently provide ambiguous i...

    Authors: Lydia Schabauer, Mareike Wenning, Ingrid Huber and Monika Ehling-Schulz
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:156
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  41. In Escherichia coli the genes involved in the acquisition of tetracycline resistance are mainly tet(A) and tet(B). In addition, tet(M) is the most common tetracycline resistance determinant in enterococci and it ...

    Authors: Sonia Jurado-Rabadán, Ricardo de la Fuente, José A Ruiz-Santa-Quiteria, José A Orden, Lisbeth E de Vries and Yvonne Agersø
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:155
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  42. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are multipotent progenitor cells characterized by their ability to both self-renew and differentiate into tissues of mesodermal origin. The plasticity or transdifferentiation poten...

    Authors: Fernando Dueñas, Víctor Becerra, Yennifer Cortes, Sonia Vidal, Leonardo Sáenz, Jaime Palomino, Mónica De los Reyes and Oscar A Peralta
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:154
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  43. Staphylococcus aureus is a common bacterium usually found on skin and mucous membranes of warm blooded animals. Resistance in S. aureus has been increasingly reported though depending on the clonal lineage. Indee...

    Authors: Stéphanie Nemeghaire, M Angeles Argudín, Freddy Haesebrouck and Patrick Butaye
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:153
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  44. Previously, we evaluated a minimally invasive epidermal lipid sampling method called skin scrub, which achieved reproducible and comparable results to skin scraping. The present study aimed at investigating re...

    Authors: Mandy Angelbeck-Schulze, Reinhard Mischke, Karl Rohn, Marion Hewicker-Trautwein, Hassan Y Naim and Wolfgang Bäumer
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:152
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  45. The epidemiology of New Neonatal Porcine Diarrhoea Syndrome (NNPDS) was studied in four selected herds. A total of 941 new born piglets in 86 litters were evaluated for five consecutive days. NNPDS is a newly ...

    Authors: Hanne Kongsted, Nils Toft and Jens Peter Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:151
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  46. In literature only one article describes and compares methods of achieving hemostasis in equine mesenteric arteries during jejunal resection and anastomosis, and most textbooks favor ligating-dividing mechanic...

    Authors: Marco Gandini, Gessica Giusto, Francesco Comino and Eleonora Pagliara
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10(Suppl 1):S10
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  47. Stapled jejunocecal anastomoses are commonly performed in equine abdominal surgery. They carry higher complication rates compared to handsewn techniques. In human surgery various causes likely to lead to failu...

    Authors: Marco Gandini, Gessica Giusto, Bryan Iotti, Alberto Valazza and Federica Sammartano
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10(Suppl 1):S9
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

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  48. Naturally occurring gastrointestinal disease is an important cause of acute hypoproteinemia in adult horses and hydroxyethyl starch colloid fluid treatment is a component of supportive care in these cases to i...

    Authors: Fausto Bellezzo, Timothy Kuhnmuench and Eileen S Hackett
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10(Suppl 1):S8
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  49. In horses undergoing celiotomy for acute gastrointestinal pain, identification of variables correlating with lesion severity and location, and survival provide veterinarians and owners with information that ai...

    Authors: Clarisa R Krueger, Audrey Ruple-Czerniak and Eileen S Hackett
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10(Suppl 1):S7
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  50. Ultrasonography is an important diagnostic tool in the investigation of abdominal disease in the horse. Several factors may affect the ability to image different structures within the abdomen. The aim of the s...

    Authors: Sarah Williams, Jonathan David Cooper and Sarah Louise Freeman
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10(Suppl 1):S5
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