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  1. Mitochondria, which are essential for the functionality of eukaryotic cells, are particularly important in metabolically active tissues such as liver. Different breeds of pigs demonstrate distinct metabolic pr...

    Authors: Runsheng Li, Huafeng Zou, Yimin Jia and Ruqian Zhao
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:87
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  2. Oestrogens and progesterone have a significant impact on the endometrium during the canine oestrous cycle. Their receptors mediate plasma steroid hormone levels and are expressed in several endometrial cell ty...

    Authors: Cordula Bartel, Alexander Tichy, Susanne Schoenkypl, Christine Aurich and Ingrid Walter
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:86
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  3. Mycobacterium spp. is one of the most important species of zoonotic pathogens that can be transmitted from cattle to humans. The presence of these opportunistic, pathogenic bacteria in bovine milk has emerged as ...

    Authors: Marília Masello Junqueira Franco, Antonio Carlos Paes, Márcio Garcia Ribeiro, José Carlos de Figueiredo Pantoja, Adolfo Carlos Barreto Santos, Marcelo Miyata, Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite, Rodrigo Garcia Motta and Fernando José Paganini Listoni
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:85
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  5. The antibody Ki-67 is a reliable and easy tool to accurately assess the growth fraction of neoplasms in humans and animals, and it has been used to predict the clinical outcome. Therefore, the aim of the prese...

    Authors: Rodrigo Storti Pereira, Augusto Schweigert, Guilherme Dias de Melo, Fernando Vissani Fernandes, Felipe Augusto Ruiz Sueiro and Gisele Fabrino Machado
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:83
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  6. In classical scrapie, the disease-associated abnormal isoform (PrPSc) of normal prion protein accumulates principally in the nervous system and lymphoid tissues of small ruminants. Lymph nodes traffic leukocytes ...

    Authors: Rohana P Dassanayake, Thomas C Truscott, M Özgür Özyiğit, Dongyue Zhuang, David A Schneider and Katherine I O’Rourke
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:82
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  7. Salmonella control in animal feed is important in order to protect animal and public health. Organic acids is one of the control measures used for treatment of Salmonella contaminated feed or feed ingredients. In...

    Authors: Sevinc Koyuncu, Mats Gunnar Andersson, Charlotta Löfström, Panagiotis N Skandamis, Antonia Gounadaki, Jürgen Zentek and Per Häggblom
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:81
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  8. Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in humans is defined by the absence of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2 overexpression. Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is overexpressed in...

    Authors: Lorella Maniscalco, Yolanda Millán, Selina Iussich, Mauro Denina, Raquel Sánchez-Céspedes, Francesca Gattino, Bartolomeo Biolatti, Nobuo Sasaki, Takayuki Nakagawa, Maria Flavia Di Renzo, Juana Martín de las Mulas and Raffaella De Maria
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:80
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  9. Little is known on the effects of common calf diseases on mortality and carcass traits in the white veal industry (special-fed veal), a highly integrated production system, currently criticized for the intensi...

    Authors: Bart Pardon, Miel Hostens, Luc Duchateau, Jeroen Dewulf, Koen De Bleecker and Piet Deprez
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:79
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  10. The frequency of mammary malignancies in canine patients is even three times over than in human. In various types of cancer different intracellular signalling pathways are perturbed, thus the patients with pat...

    Authors: Karol M Pawłowski, Henryk Maciejewski, Izabella Dolka, Jan A Mol, Tomasz Motyl and Magdalena Król
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:78
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  11. The aim of this study was to use transmission electron microscopy to describe the ultrastructural characteristics of clots obtained from canine and feline platelet concentrates (PC) that had been activated wit...

    Authors: Raúl F Silva, Jorge U Carmona and Cleuza MF Rezende
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:77
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  12. Little is currently known about Brucella evolution within the host during infection. The current study is the first to employ fine-scale genotyping on an isolate collection derived from a Brucella canis outbreak....

    Authors: Miklós Gyuranecz, Brandy D Rannals, Christina A Allen, Szilárd Jánosi, Paul S Keim and Jeffrey T Foster
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:76
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  13. Autophagy is a self-catabolic mechanism that degrades unnecessary cellular components through lysosomal enzymes. Beclin-1, an autophagy-related protein, establishes the first connection between autophagy and t...

    Authors: Jing-Lan Liu, Kai-Chian Chang, Chun-Chih Lo, Pei-Yi Chu and Chen-Hsuan Liu
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:75
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  14. Bacteriologic culture remains one of the most important methods to diagnose bovine tuberculosis despite the lengthy incubation time, significant decontamination and media expense, and high biocontainment requi...

    Authors: Suelee Robbe-Austerman, Doris M Bravo and Beth Harris
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:74
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  15. Fatty liver is a major metabolic disorder in dairy cows and is believed to result in major economic losses in dairy farming due to decreased health status, reproductive performance and fertility. Currently, th...

    Authors: Ayman Samir Farid, Kazuyuki Honkawa, Eman Mohamed Fath, Nariaki Nonaka and Yoichiro Horii
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:73
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  16. In the absence of overt clinical signs of Johne’s Disease (JD), laboratory based tests have largely been limited to organism detection via faecal culture or PCR and serological tests for antibody reactivity. I...

    Authors: Rory O’Brien, Alan Hughes, Simon Liggett and Frank Griffin
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:72
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  17. The limited use of biosecurity practices by many in the farming community is likely to be due to a range of factors; further understanding of this issue is required. In this study, attitudes and behaviours of ...

    Authors: Marnie L Brennan and Robert M Christley
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:71
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  18. An in-vitro setup was established in order to determine a) the diffusion activities of eight otic preparations (Aurizon®, Eas Otic®, Epi Otic®, Otifree®, Otomax®, Panolog®, Posatex®, Surolan®) through synthetic c...

    Authors: Jessica Stahl, Stefanie Mielke, Wolf-Rüdiger Pankow and Manfred Kietzmann
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:70
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  19. The limited within-breed genetic heterogeneity and an enrichment of disease-predisposing alleles have made the dog a very suitable model for the identification of genes associated with risk for specific diseas...

    Authors: Kaja Sverdrup Borge, Malin Melin, Patricio Rivera, Stein Istre Thoresen, Matthew Thomas Webster, Henrik von Euler, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh and Frode Lingaas
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:69
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  20. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common joint disease that causes disabilities in elderly adults. However, few long-lasting pharmacotherapeutic agents with low side effects have been developed to treat OA. We evaluate...

    Authors: Hsien-Tsung Lu, Ming-Thau Sheu, Yung-Feng Lin, Jai Lan, Yi-Ping Chin, Ming-Shium Hsieh, Chao-Wen Cheng and Chien-Ho Chen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:68
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  21. Gyr cows are well adapted to tropical conditions, resistant to some tropical diseases and have satisfactory milk production. However, Gyr dairy herds have a high prevalence of subclinical mastitis, which negat...

    Authors: Carolina Barbosa Malek dos Reis, Juliana Regina Barreiro, Lucinéia Mestieri, Marco Aurélio de Felício Porcionato and Marcos Veiga dos Santos
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:67
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  22. Multidrug-resistant Salmonella strains are frequently encountered problems worldwide with considerable increased occurrences in recent years. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence and frequency ...

    Authors: Maral Rahmani, Seyed Mostafa Peighambari, Christina Aaby Svendsen, Lina M Cavaco, Yvonne Agersø and Rene S Hendriksen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:66
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  23. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) have high impact on the cancer development because they can facilitate matrix invasion, angiogenesis, and tumor cell motility. It gives cancer cells the capacity to invade n...

    Authors: Magdalena Król, Kinga Majchrzak, Joanna Mucha, Agata Homa, Małgorzata Bulkowska, Arleta Jakubowska, Malwina Karwicka, Karol M Pawłowski and Tomasz Motyl
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:65
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  24. Recent new anatomical and histological features of craniocervical junction in dogs and cats were described providing evidence of differences between the carnivore species. No information on these structures in...

    Authors: Marta Kupczynska, Karolina Barszcz, Pawel Janczyk, Michal Wasowicz and Norbert Czubaj
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:64
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  25. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of L-arginine (Arg) on photomicrographs and HSP70 expression in the liver of weanling piglets. Twelve healthy Landrace × Yorkshire piglets that had been weaned ...

    Authors: Xin Wu, Chunyan Xie, Yulong Yin, Fengna Li, Tiejun Li, Ruilin Huang, Zheng Ruan and Zeyuan Deng
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:63
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  26. In many pre-clinical studies of cartilage tissue, it has been generally assumed that the major difference of the tissue between the species is the tissue thickness, which is related to the size of the animal i...

    Authors: Norazian Kamisan, Sangeetha Vasudevaraj Naveen, Raja Elina Ahmad and Kamarul Tunku
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:62
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  27. The object of this study was to describe and contrast the kinetics of the humoral response in serum and oral fluid specimens during acute porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) infection. ...

    Authors: Apisit Kittawornrat, Mark Engle, Yaowalak Panyasing, Chris Olsen, Kent Schwartz, Anna Rice, Sergio Lizano, Chong Wang and Jeffrey Zimmerman
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:61
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  28. Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an endemic and highly contagious disease in small ruminants of Pakistan. Despite the fact that an effective vaccine is available, outbreaks are regularly occurring in the co...

    Authors: Muhammad Anees, Muhammad Zubair Shabbir, Khushi Muhammad, Jawad Nazir, Muhammad Abu Bakar Shabbir, Jonas J Wensman and Muhammad Munir
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:60
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  29. Central post-stroke pain is a neuropathic pain condition caused by a vascular lesion, of either ischemic or hemorrhagic origin, in the central nervous system and more precisely involving the spinothalamocortic...

    Authors: Aude Castel, Pierre Hélie, Francis Beaudry and Pascal Vachon
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:59
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  30. The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is a devastating disease for the pig industry. In this study, we analysed the genetic variability of PRRS virus (PRRSV) as well as the relationship betw...

    Authors: Bouabid Badaoui, Roberto Grande, Stefano Calza, Maria Cecere, Mario Luini, Alessandra Stella and Sara Botti
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:58
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  31. Leukoencephalomyelopathy is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that affects the white matter of the spinal cord and brain and is known to occur in the Rottweiler breed. Due to the lack of a genetic test f...

    Authors: Katrin Hirschvogel, Kaspar Matiasek, Katharina Flatz, Michaela Drögemüller, Cord Drögemüller, Bärbel Reiner and Andrea Fischer
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:57
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  32. This study investigated synovial concentrations of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and its metabolite salicylic acid (SA) in the equine fetlock joint following systemic administration of ASA. Salicylates were chose...

    Authors: Maren Friebe, Stephan Schumacher, Jessica Stahl and Manfred Kietzmann
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:56
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  33. The illegal administration of hormones, steroids, β-agonists and other anabolic agents to productive livestock in the European Union continues, despite the long-term ban on their use and despite the measures p...

    Authors: Antonio Borrelli, Claudio Bellino, Elena Bozzetta, Barbara Bruno, Sara Falco, Cristiana Maurella, Paola Gianella, Marzia Pezzolato, Aurelio Cagnasso and Antonio D’Angelo
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:55
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  34. Elucidating the histological characteristics of normal vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) is important for understanding mechanisms of development, disease etiology and the remodeling and/or regeneration pro...

    Authors: Noriko Isayama, Goki Matsumura and Kenji Yamazaki
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:54
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  35. Osteochondral autograft transfer (OAT) aims at restoring normal articular cartilage surface geometry and articular contact mechanics. To date, no studies have evaluated the contact mechanics of the canine stif...

    Authors: Christina J Choate, Stanley E Kim, Caleb C Hudson, David Spreng and Antonio Pozzi
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:53
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  36. The identity of herpesviruses isolated in Europe from domestic pigeons (Columbid herpesvirus-1 - CoHV-1) as well as falcons and owls remains unknown. All these herpesviruses are antigenically and genetically r...

    Authors: Grzegorz J Woźniakowski, Elżbieta Samorek-Salamonowicz, Piotr Szymański, Piotr Wencel and Marek Houszka
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:52
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  37. Infectious ovine epididymitis results in substantial economic losses worldwide due to reproductive failure and culling of breeders. The most common causative agents of these infections are Brucella ovis, Actinoba...

    Authors: Valéria S Moustacas, Teane MA Silva, Luciana F Costa, Mariana N Xavier, Custódio A Carvalho Jr, Érica A Costa, Tatiane A Paixão and Renato L Santos
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:51
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  38. The aim of this study was to evaluate the stifle joints of little spotted cats in captivity using radiographic and CT studies. The hypothesis was that these animals would have meniscal mineralisation that coul...

    Authors: Sheila C Rahal, Mauricio G Fillipi, Maria J Mamprim, Hugo S Oliveira, Carlos R Teixeira, Rodrigo HF Teixeira and Frederico OB Monteiro
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:50
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  39. Heifers can calve down with intramammary infections (IMI) and udder damage. This will have a negative impact on their longevity, future milk yield and financial return. Co-housed pre-weaned calves that are fed...

    Authors: Inge-Marié Petzer, Joanne Karzis, Maia Lesosky, Johanna C Watermeyer and Renette Badenhorst
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:49
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  40. Medetomidine-ketamine (MK) and dexmedetomidine-ketamine (DK) are widely used to provide general anaesthesia in laboratory animals, but have not been compared directly in many of these species, including rodent...

    Authors: Wesley M Burnside, Paul A Flecknell, Angus I Cameron and Aurélie A Thomas
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:48
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  41. Despite the importance of abnormalities in lipoprotein metabolism in clinical canine medicine, the fact that most previously used methods for lipoprotein profiling are rather laborious and time-consuming has b...

    Authors: Panagiotis G Xenoulis, Paul J Cammarata, Rosemary L Walzem, Ronald D Macfarlane, Jan S Suchodolski and Jörg M Steiner
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:47
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  42. In many parts of the developing world, pigs are kept under low-input systems where they roam freely to scavenge food. These systems allow poor farmers the opportunity to enter into livestock keeping without la...

    Authors: Lian F Thomas, William A de Glanville, Elizabeth A Cook and Eric M Fèvre
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:46
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  43. This paper describes liver cirrhosis in 35 fallow deer infected with the giant liver fluke, as well as the distribution, origin, and role of myofibroblasts in its development.

    Authors: Darko Marinković, Vladimir Kukolj, Sanja Aleksić-Kovačević, Milijan Jovanović and Milijana Knežević
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:45
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  45. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is an acquired disorder characterized by the activation of intravascular coagulation and excessive fibrin formation. It always occurs in association with other clin...

    Authors: Carla O Honse, Fabiano B Figueiredo, Nayro Xde Alencar, Maria de Fátima Madeira, Isabella DF Gremião and Tânia MP Schubach
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:43
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  46. Robenacoxib is a novel and highly selective inhibitor of COX-2 in dogs and cats and because of its acidic nature is regarded as being tissue-selective. Thirty four dogs with stifle osteoarthritis secondary to ...

    Authors: David Bennett, Peter David Eckersall, Mary Waterston, Veronica Marchetti, Alessandra Rota, Eilidh McCulloch and Silvia Sbrana
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:42
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  47. The causative agent of canine babesiosis is the protozoan Babesia canis, transmitted by the tick Dermacentor reticulatus within France. While the parasite can be found everywhere in France however cases of infect...

    Authors: Lénaïg Halos, Isabelle Lebert, Isabelle Chao, Gwenaël Vourc’h, Christian Ducrot, David Abrial, Jean-François Ravier and Jacques Guillot
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:41
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  48. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is the preferred diagnostic tool to evaluate internal disorders of many joints in humans; however, the usefulness of MR imaging in the context of osteoarthritis, and joint disea...

    Authors: Vladimir Galindo-Zamora, Peter Dziallas, Davina C Ludwig, Ingo Nolte and Patrick Wefstaedt
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:40
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  49. The tissue growth necessary to achieve a complete or partial restitution ad integrum as a result of injury to soft tissue and/or hard times in reptiles is variable and often needs long time in relation to the ...

    Authors: Salvatore Rinaldi, Maddalena Iannaccone, Gian Enrico Magi, Emanuela Costantini, Alessandro Castagna, Eraldo Sanna Passino, Margherita Maioli and Vania Fontani
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:39
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  50. Helminthiasis is a major limitation to the livestock industry in Africa. Haemonchus contortus is the singular most important helminth responsible for major economic losses in small ruminants. The high cost of ant...

    Authors: Mathew Adamu, Vinasan Naidoo and Jacobus N Eloff
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:38
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