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  1. A recent study showed that niacin supplementation counteracts the obesity-induced muscle fiber switching from oxidative type I to glycolytic type II and increases the number of type I fibers in skeletal muscle...

    Authors: Muckta Khan, Robert Ringseis, Frank-Christoph Mooren, Karsten Krüger, Erika Most and Klaus Eder
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:177
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  2. Infections with Mycobacterium bovis and closely related members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) are shared between livestock, wildlife and sporadically human beings. Wildlife reservoirs exist worl...

    Authors: Marta Muñoz-Mendoza, Nelson Marreros, Mariana Boadella, Christian Gortázar, Santiago Menéndez, Lucía de Juan, Javier Bezos, Beatriz Romero, María Francisca Copano, Javier Amado, José Luis Sáez, Jorge Mourelo and Ana Balseiro
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:176
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  3. Infectious livestock diseases remain a major threat to attaining food security and are a source of economic and livelihood losses for people dependent on livestock for their livelihood. Knowledge of the vital ...

    Authors: Samuel M Thumbi, Mark BMdec Bronsvoort, Henry Kiara, PG Toye, Jane Poole, Mary Ndila, Ilana Conradie, Amy Jennings, Ian G Handel, JAW Coetzer, Johan Steyl, Olivier Hanotte and Mark EJ Woolhouse
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:175
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  4. In 1985, a bat researcher in Finland died of rabies encephalitis caused by European bat lyssavirus type 2 (EBLV-2), but an epidemiological study in 1986 did not reveal EBLV-infected bats. In 2009, an EBLV-2-po...

    Authors: Tiina Nokireki, Anita Huovilainen, Thomas Lilley, Eeva-Maria Kyheröinen, Christine Ek-Kommonen, Liisa Sihvonen and Miia Jakava-Viljanen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:174
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  5. A randomized, unmasked, multicenter study was conducted to evaluate the rate of pruritus reduction and improvement in clinical scoring by cyclosporine A (5 mg/kg orally, once daily for 28 days) either alone (n...

    Authors: Ramiro Dip, James Carmichael, Ingrid Letellier, Guenther Strehlau, Elizabeth Roberts, Emmanuel Bensignor and Wayne Rosenkrantz
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:173
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  6. Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLV) are members of the Retroviridae family and infect goats and sheep worldwide. Detection of specific antibodies using AGID and ELISA is the most commonly used means of diagnosing ...

    Authors: Urška Kuhar, Darja Barlič-Maganja and Jože Grom
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:172
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  7. There is a widely recognised lack of baseline epidemiological data on the dynamics and impacts of infectious cattle diseases in east Africa. The Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock (IDEAL) project is...

    Authors: Barend Mark de Clare Bronsvoort, Samuel Mwangi Thumbi, Elizabeth Jane Poole, Henry Kiara, Olga Tosas Auguet, Ian Graham Handel, Amy Jennings, Ilana Conradie, Mary Ndila Mbole-Kariuki, Philip G Toye, Olivier Hanotte, JAW Coetzer and Mark EJ Woolhouse
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:171
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  8. The in vitro culture of endothelial cells (ECs) is an indispensable tool for studying the role of the endothelium in physical and pathological conditions. Primary ECs, however, have a restricted proliferative lif...

    Authors: Dominique AJ Olyslaegers, Lowiese MB Desmarets, Annelike Dedeurwaerder, Hannah L Dewerchin and Hans J Nauwynck
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:170
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  9. Oxytocin has been reported for a wide range of adverse effects in different species of lactating animals. The present study was aimed to evaluate the adverse effects of oxytocin on biomarkers of oxidative stre...

    Authors: Zafar Iqbal, Zia Ur Rahman, Faqir Muhammad, Tanweer Khaliq, Haseeb Anwar, Mian Muhammad Awais and Saima Sadaf
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:169
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  10. The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to determine the effect of feeding a commercial lacteal-derived colostrum replacer (CR) or pooled maternal colostrum (MC) on preweaning morbidity, growth a...

    Authors: Sharif S Aly, Patrick Pithua, John D Champagne and Deborah M Haines
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:168
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  11. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), including scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME), and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), are ...

    Authors: Catherine E Vrentas, Justin J Greenlee, Thierry Baron, Maria Caramelli, Stefanie Czub and Eric M Nicholson
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:167
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  12. In 2006, bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV-8) was detected for the first time in central Europe. Measures to control the infection in livestock were implemented in Switzerland but the question was raised whethe...

    Authors: Julien Casaubon, Valérie Chaignat, Hans-Rudolf Vogt, Adam O Michel, Barbara Thür and Marie-Pierre Ryser-Degiorgis
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:166
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  13. The purpose of this study was to determine intravenous (IV), intramuscular (IM) and oral (PO) FM PK in mature swine. Appropriate pain management for lameness in swine is a critical control point for veterinari...

    Authors: Monique D Pairis-Garcia, Locke A Karriker, Anna K Johnson, Butch Kukanich, Larry Wulf, Suzanne Sander, Suzanne T Millman, Kenneth J Stalder and Johann F Coetzee
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:165
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  14. An automated technique for recording eating and rumination behaviour was evaluated in ten lactating Brown Swiss cows by comparing data obtained from a pressure sensor with data obtained via direct observation ...

    Authors: Ueli Braun, Luzia Trösch, Franz Nydegger and Michael Hässig
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:164
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  15. Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) and bovine brucellosis are two important milk-borne zoonoses that have been shown to be prevalent to various degrees in Ethiopian cattle.

    Authors: Rea Tschopp, Birhanu Abera, Sabi Yao Sourou, Emmanuelle Guerne-Bleich, Abraham Aseffa, Alehegne Wubete, Jakob Zinsstag and Douglas Young
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:163
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  16. Worldwide, but especially in developing countries, coenurosis of sheep and other livestock is caused by Taenia multiceps larvae, and zoonotic infections occur in humans. Infections frequently lead to host death, ...

    Authors: Xuhang Wu, Yan Fu, Deying Yang, Yue Xie, Runhui Zhang, Wanpeng Zheng, Huaming Nie, Ning Yan, Ning Wang, Jiahai Wang, Xiaobin Gu, Shuxian Wang, Xuerong Peng and Guangyou Yang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:162
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  17. Chicken anemia virus (CAV) is an important viral pathogen that causes anemia and severe immunodeficiency syndrome in chickens worldwide. Generally, CAV infection occurs via vertical transmission in young chick...

    Authors: Guan-Hua Lai, Ming-Kuem Lin, Yi-Yang Lien, Jiun-Hau Fu, Hsi-Jien Chen, Chi-Hung Huang, Jason TC Tzen and Meng-Shiou Lee
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:161
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  18. Previous investigations in newborn lambs determined that adenovirus-mediated expression of antigen to a localized region of the gut induced antigen-specific mucosal and systemic immunity. These experiments wer...

    Authors: Rachelle M Buchanan, Sonja Mertins and Heather L Wilson
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:160
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  19. Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is caused by the larval stage (metacestode) of Echinococcus multilocularis. The domestic dog can act as a definitive host and harbor adult cestodes in its small intestine or become an...

    Authors: Caroline A Geigy, Karolin Kühn, Maja Rütten, Judith Howard, Felix Grimm and Carla Rohrer Bley
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:159
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  20. To test the efficacy of the recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) alteplase in horses, the thrombolytic effect was tested in in vitro generated equine thrombi. The extent of lysis was determined b...

    Authors: Wolfgang Bäumer, Gudrun M Herrling and Karsten Feige
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:158
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  21. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) affect both domestic sheep (scrapie) and captive and free-ranging cervids (chronic wasting disease; CWD). The geographical range of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis;...

    Authors: Aaron R Morawski, Christina M Carlson, Haeyoon Chang and Christopher J Johnson
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:157
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  22. Lissencephaly is a rare developmental brain disorder in veterinary and human medicine associated with defects in neuronal migration leading to a characteristic marked reduction or absence of the convolutional ...

    Authors: Valentín Pérez, Aroa Suárez-Vega, Miguel Fuertes, Julio Benavides, Laetitia Delgado, M Carmen Ferreras and Juan José Arranz
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:156
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  23. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect on outcomes of intraoperative recombinant human interleukin-2 injection after surgical resection of peripheral nerve sheath tumours. In this double-blind ...

    Authors: Annika N Haagsman, Astrid CS Witkamp, Bart E Sjollema, Marja JL Kik and Jolle Kirpensteijn
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:155
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  24. Babesia parasites, mainly Babesia bovis and B. bigemina, are tick-borne hemoparasites inducing bovine babesiosis in cattle globally. The clinical signs of the disease include, among others, anemia, fever and hemo...

    Authors: Moses Sibusiso Mtshali and Phillip Senzo Mtshali
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:154
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  25. Usutu virus (USUV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus of the Japanese encephalitis virus antigenic group, caused bird die-offs in Austria, Hungary and Switzerland between 2001 and 2009. While the zoological gardens of ...

    Authors: Nicola Buchebner, Wolfgang Zenker, Christian Wenker, Hanspeter W Steinmetz, Endre Sós, Helga Lussy and Norbert Nowotny
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:153
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  26. A growing body of work shows the benefits of applying social cognitive behavioural theory to investigate infection control and biosecurity practices. Protection motivation theory has been used to predict prote...

    Authors: Kathrin Schemann, Simon M Firestone, Melanie R Taylor, Jenny-Ann LML Toribio, Michael P Ward and Navneet K Dhand
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:152
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  28. Prions demonstrate an unusual resistance to methods effective at inactivating conventional microorganisms. This has resulted in a very tangible and difficult infection control challenge to the medical and vete...

    Authors: Jodi D Smith, Eric M Nicholson and Justin J Greenlee
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:151
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  29. In 2010, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) occurred for the first time in a decade in Japan. Movement or shipment of people and animals around infected farms was restricted; however these contingency measures prove...

    Authors: Norihiko Muroga, Sota Kobayashi, Takeshi Nishida, Yoko Hayama, Takaaki Kawano, Takehisa Yamamoto and Toshiyuki Tsutsui
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:150
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  30. Most European birds of prey find themselves in a poor state of conservation, with electrocution as one of the most frequent causes of unnatural death. Since early detection of electrocution is difficult, treat...

    Authors: Mar Melero, Fernando González, Olga Nicolás, Irene López, María delos Ángeles Jiménez, Susana Jato-Sánchez and José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:149
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  31. Dietary supplementation with oligosaccharides has been proven to be beneficial for health in several mammalian species. Next to prebiotic effects resulting in a modulation of gut micro biota, immunomodulatory ...

    Authors: Johannes Cornelis Vendrig, Luc Edgar Coffeng and Johanna Fink-Gremmels
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:147
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  32. To evaluate the efficiency of platelet-rich plasma preparations by means of a double centrifugation tube method to obtain platelet-rich canine plasma at a concentration at least 4 times higher than the baselin...

    Authors: Anna Perazzi, Roberto Busetto, Tiziana Martinello, Michele Drigo, Daniela Pasotto, Francesco Cian, Marco Patruno and Ilaria Iacopetti
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:146
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  33. The harbour porpoise is exposed to increasing pressure caused by anthropogenic activities in its marine environment. Numerous offshore wind farms are planned or under construction in the North and Baltic Seas,...

    Authors: Sabine Müller, Kristina Lehnert, Henrike Seibel, Jörg Driver, Katrin Ronnenberg, Jonas Teilmann, Cornelius van Elk, Jakob Kristensen, Eligius Everaarts and Ursula Siebert
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:145
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  34. Several research applications involving platelets, such as proteomic and transcriptomic analysis, require samples with very low numbers of contaminating leukocytes, which have considerably higher RNA and prote...

    Authors: Shauna A Trichler, Sandra C Bulla, John Thomason, Kari V Lunsford and Camilo Bulla
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:144
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  35. A scale validated in one language is not automatically valid in another language or culture. The purpose of this study was to validate the English version of the UNESP-Botucatu multidimensional composite pain ...

    Authors: Juliana T Brondani, Khursheed R Mama, Stelio P L Luna, Bonnie D Wright, Sirirat Niyom, Jennifer Ambrosio, Pamela R Vogel and Carlos R Padovani
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:143
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  36. Premedication is rarely used in avian species. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of premedication on the quality of sevoflurane induction and anaesthesia in parrots. We hypothesised that premedi...

    Authors: Valéria Veras Paula, Denise Aya Otsuki, José Otávio Costa Auler Júnior, Talyta Lins Nunes, Aline Magalhães Ambrósio and Denise Tabacchi Fantoni
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:142
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  37. The TSH stimulation test to confirm canine hypothyroidism is commonly performed using a recombinant human TSH (rhTSH), as up to date, canine TSH is not yet commercially available. Limiting factors for the use ...

    Authors: Sandra Schaefer, Paul O Hassa, Nadja S Sieber-Ruckstuhl, Marion Piechotta, Claudia E Reusch, Bernd Roschitzki and Felicitas S Boretti
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:141
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  38. Infection of newly hatched chicks with Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) results in an inflammatory response in the intestinal tract which may influence the composition of gut microbiota. I...

    Authors: Petra Videnska, Frantisek Sisak, Hana Havlickova, Marcela Faldynova and Ivan Rychlik
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:140
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  39. The microsporidian Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei was first described from Thailand in 2009 in farmed, indigenous giant tiger shrimp Penaeus (Penaeus) monodon. The natural reservoir for the parasite is still unknown...

    Authors: Amornrat Tangprasittipap, Jiraporn Srisala, Saisunee Chouwdee, Montagan Somboon, Niti Chuchird, Chalor Limsuwan, Thinnarat Srisuvan, Timothy W Flegel and Kallaya Sritunyalucksana
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:139
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  40. Spontaneous canine mammary tumors constitute a serious clinical problem. There are significant differences in survival between cases with different tumor grades. Unfortunately, the distinction between various ...

    Authors: Karol M Pawłowski, Henryk Maciejewski, Kinga Majchrzak, Izabella Dolka, Jan A Mol, Tomasz Motyl and Magdalena Król
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:138
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  41. Brachyspira associated diarrhea is a re-emerging concern for Canadian swine producers. To identify critical control points for reducing the impact of Brachyspira on production, improved diagnostic tools and a bet...

    Authors: Amy H Patterson, Joseph E Rubin, Champika Fernando, Matheus O Costa, John CS Harding and Janet E Hill
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:137
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  43. Aim of the study was to compare the effect of neuroleptic sedation with acepromazine and neuroleptanalgesia with acepromazine and buprenorphine on thermal thresholds (TT) obtained at the nostrils and at the wi...

    Authors: Christin Poller, Klaus Hopster, Karl Rohn and Sabine BR Kästner
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:135
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  44. Prions, infectious agents associated with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, are primarily composed of the misfolded and pathogenic form (PrPSc) of the host-encoded prion protein. Because PrPSc retains infe...

    Authors: Miyako Yoshioka, Yuichi Matsuura, Hiroyuki Okada, Noriko Shimozaki, Tomoaki Yamamura, Yuichi Murayama, Takashi Yokoyama and Shirou Mohri
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:134
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  45. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are multipotent progenitor cells localized in the stromal compartment of the bone marrow (BM). The potential of MSC for mesenchymal differentiation has been well documented in diff...

    Authors: Yennifer Cortes, Margarita Ojeda, Diego Araya, Fernando Dueñas, María S Fernández and Oscar A Peralta
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:133
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  46. Canine GM1 gangliosidosis is a fatal disease in the Shiba Inu breed, which is one of the most popular traditional breeds in Japan and is maintained as a standard breed in many countries. Therefore, it is impor...

    Authors: Mohammad M Uddin, Sayaka Arata, Yukari Takeuchi, Hye-Sook Chang, Keijiro Mizukami, Akira Yabuki, Mohammad M Rahman, Moeko Kohyama, Mohammad A Hossain, Kenji Takayama and Osamu Yamato
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:132
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  47. Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell (ADMSC) therapy in regenerative medicine is a rapidly growing area of research and is currently also being used to treat osteoarthritis (OA). Force platform analysis has b...

    Authors: Jose M Vilar, Manuel Morales, Angelo Santana, Giuseppe Spinella, Mónica Rubio, Belen Cuervo, Ramón Cugat and Jose M Carrillo
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:131
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  48. Hairy and enhancer of split 1 (HES1), a basic helix-loop-helix transcriptional repressor, is a downstream target of Notch signaling. Notch signaling and HES1 expression have been linked to growth and survival ...

    Authors: Deanna D Dailey, Kristin P Anfinsen, Liza E Pfaff, EJ Ehrhart, J Brad Charles, Tina B Bønsdorff, Douglas H Thamm, Barbara E Powers, Thora J Jonasdottir and Dawn L Duval
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:130
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  49. Several factors may influence kinetic data measurements, including body conformation and body mass. In addition, gender differences in gait pattern have been observed in healthy humans. Therefore, the aim of t...

    Authors: Mirela R Verdugo, Sheila C Rahal, Felipe S Agostinho, Verônica M Govoni, Maria J Mamprim and Frederico OB Monteiro
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:129
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  50. Corneal ulcers are one of the most common eye problems in the horse and can cause varying degrees of visual impairment. Secondary infection and protease activity causing melting of the corneal stroma are alway...

    Authors: Anna Hellander-Edman, Karim Makdoumi, Jes Mortensen and Björn Ekesten
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2013 9:128
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