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Relationships between metabolite and IGF1 concentrations with fertility and production outcomes following left abomasal displacement (2014)
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Lyons, N. A., Cooke, J. S., Wilson, S., Van Winden, S. C. L., Gordon, P. J., & Wathes, D. C. (2014). Relationships between metabolite and IGF1 concentrations with fertility and production outcomes following left abomasal displacement. Veterinary Record, 174(26), 657-+. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.102119

Left displacement of the abomasum (LDA) is an important periparturient disorder of dairy cows. This study evaluated differences in metabolic parameters between case-control pairs of cows (n=67) from 24 farms, and related these to outcomes in fertilit... Read More about Relationships between metabolite and IGF1 concentrations with fertility and production outcomes following left abomasal displacement.

Global Gene Expression Profiling of Myeloid Immune Cell Subsets in Response to In Vitro Challenge with Porcine Circovirus 2b (2014)
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Mavrommatis, B., Offord, V., Patterson, R., Watson, M., Kanellos, T., Steinbach, F., …Werling, D. (2014). Global Gene Expression Profiling of Myeloid Immune Cell Subsets in Response to In Vitro Challenge with Porcine Circovirus 2b. PLoS ONE, 9(3), e91081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091081

Compelling evidence suggests that the early interaction between porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) and the innate immune system is the key event in the pathogenesis of Post-Weaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS). Furthermore, PCV2 has been detected... Read More about Global Gene Expression Profiling of Myeloid Immune Cell Subsets in Response to In Vitro Challenge with Porcine Circovirus 2b.

An epidemiological study of diabetes mellitus in dogs attending first opinion practice in the UK (2014)
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Mattin, M. J., O'Neill, D. G., Church, D. B., McGreevy, P. D., Thomson, P. C., & Brodbelt, D. C. (2014). An epidemiological study of diabetes mellitus in dogs attending first opinion practice in the UK. Veterinary Microbiology, 174(14), 349+. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.101950

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of canine diabetes mellitus (DM) in primary-care clinics in England, to identify risk factors associated with DM and to describe the survival of affected dogs. Cases of DM were identified within the electro... Read More about An epidemiological study of diabetes mellitus in dogs attending first opinion practice in the UK.

Haptoglobin, alpha-thalassaemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphisms and risk of abnormal transcranial Doppler among patients with sickle cell anaemia in Tanzania (2014)
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Cox, S. E., Makani, J., Soka, D., Kija, E., Dominguez-Salas, P., Newton, C. R., …Kirkham, F. J. (2014). Haptoglobin, alpha-thalassaemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphisms and risk of abnormal transcranial Doppler among patients with sickle cell anaemia in Tanzania. British Journal of Haematology, 165(5), 699-706. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.12791

Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography measures cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFv) of basal intracranial vessels and is used clinically to detect stroke risk in children with sickle cell anaemia (SCA). Co‐inheritance in SCA of alpha‐thalassaemia and g... Read More about Haptoglobin, alpha-thalassaemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphisms and risk of abnormal transcranial Doppler among patients with sickle cell anaemia in Tanzania.

Dietary supplementation with soluble plantain non-starch polysaccharides inhibits intestinal invasion of salmonella typhimurium in the chicken (2014)
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Parsons, B. N., Wigley, P., Simpson, H., Williams, J. M., Humphrey, S., Salisbury, A., …Campbell, B. J. (2014). Dietary supplementation with soluble plantain non-starch polysaccharides inhibits intestinal invasion of salmonella typhimurium in the chicken. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087658

Soluble fibres (non-starch polysaccharides, NSP) from edible plants but particularly plantain banana (Musa spp.), have been shown in vitro and ex vivo to prevent various enteric pathogens from adhering to, or translocating across, the human intestina... Read More about Dietary supplementation with soluble plantain non-starch polysaccharides inhibits intestinal invasion of salmonella typhimurium in the chicken.

Using Risk Assessment as Part of a Systems Approach to the Control and Prevention of HPAIV H5N1 (2014)
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Costard, S., Fournié, G., & Pfeiffer, D. U. (2014). Using Risk Assessment as Part of a Systems Approach to the Control and Prevention of HPAIV H5N1. EcoHealth, 11(1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-014-0907-1

Since its emergence in China in 1996, highly pathogenic avian influenza virus subtype H5N1 has spread across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Countries had to promptly implement control and prevention measures. Numerous research and capacity building initia... Read More about Using Risk Assessment as Part of a Systems Approach to the Control and Prevention of HPAIV H5N1.

Does the current regulation of assisted reproductive techniques in the UK safeguard animal welfare? (2014)
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Campbell, M. L. H. (2014). Does the current regulation of assisted reproductive techniques in the UK safeguard animal welfare?. https://doi.org/10.7120/09627286.23.1.109

Reproductive medicine is one of the fastest developing fields of veterinary medicine. Regulation of veterinary-assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is currently divided between the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (1986), the Veterinary Surge... Read More about Does the current regulation of assisted reproductive techniques in the UK safeguard animal welfare?.

Animal welfare science: recent publication trends and future research priorities (2014)
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Walker, M., Diez-Leon, M., & Mason, G. (2014). Animal welfare science: recent publication trends and future research priorities. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 27(1), 80-100

Animal welfare science is a young and thriving field. Over the last two decades, the output of scientific publications on welfare has increased by c. 10-15% annually (tripling as a proportion of all science papers logged by ISI’s Web of Science), wit... Read More about Animal welfare science: recent publication trends and future research priorities.

Risk Assessment of the Introduction of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus via Boar Semen into Switzerland as an Example of a PRRSV-Free Country (2014)
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Nathues, C., Zimmerli, U., Hauser, R., Nathues, H., Beilage, E. G., & Schuepbach-Regula, G. (2014). Risk Assessment of the Introduction of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus via Boar Semen into Switzerland as an Example of a PRRSV-Free Country. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 61(6), 546-554. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12059

Switzerland is currently porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) free, but semen imports from PRRSV‐infected European countries are increasing. As the virus can be transmitted via semen, for example, when a free boar stud becomes... Read More about Risk Assessment of the Introduction of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus via Boar Semen into Switzerland as an Example of a PRRSV-Free Country.

Influences of farmer and veterinarian behaviour on emerging disease surveillance in England and Wales (2014)
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Gilbert, W. H., Haesler, B., & Rushton, J. (2014). Influences of farmer and veterinarian behaviour on emerging disease surveillance in England and Wales. Epidemiology and Infection, 142(1), 172-181. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268813000484

Surveillance for new and re-emerging animal diseases in England and Wales is based on post-mortem and syndromic analysis of laboratory data collated in a central database by the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA), with the aim o... Read More about Influences of farmer and veterinarian behaviour on emerging disease surveillance in England and Wales.