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Increased insulin-like growth factor 1 concentrations in a retrospective population of non-diabetic cats diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (2021)
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Steele, M. M., Borgeat, K., Payne, J. R., Coss, P., Navarro-Cubas, X., Church, D. B., Niessen, S. J., & Connolly, D. J. (in press). Increased insulin-like growth factor 1 concentrations in a retrospective population of non-diabetic cats diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 1098612X2098799. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098612x20987995

Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets (2021)
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Kia, D. A., Zhang, D., Guelfi, S., Manzoni, C., Hubbard, L., Reynolds, R. H., Botía, J., Ryten, M., Ferrari, R., Lewis, P. A., Williams, N., Trabzuni, D., Hardy, J., Wood, N. W., Noyce, A. J., Kaiyrzhanov, R., Middlehurst, B., Kia, D. A., Tan, M., Houlden, H., …United Kingdom Brain Expression Consortium (UKBEC) and the International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC). (2021). Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets. JAMA Neurology, 78(4), 464. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.5257

IMPORTANCE Substantial genome-wide association study (GWAS) work in Parkinson disease (PD) has led to the discovery of an increasing number of loci shown reliably to be associated with increased risk of disease. Improved understanding of the underlyi... Read More about Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets.

The Nairobi Pork Value Chain: Mapping and Assessment of Governance, Challenges, and Food Safety Issues (2021)
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Kaitibie, S., Murungi, M. K., Raghavan, M., Muloi, D. M., Fasina, F. O., Muinde, P., Fèvre, E. M., Maina Githigia, S., Alarcon, P., Akoko, J., Mk, M., Fèvre, E. M., Dm, M., Rushton, J., Sm, G., Alarcon, P., & Em, F. (2021). The Nairobi Pork Value Chain: Mapping and Assessment of Governance, Challenges, and Food Safety Issues. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8, -. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.581376

The Nairobi pork food system is a growing livestock sub-sector which serves as a source of food and livelihood to its inhabitants. The study aimed to map Nairobi's pork value chains, assess their governance, operational challenges and their impacts o... Read More about The Nairobi Pork Value Chain: Mapping and Assessment of Governance, Challenges, and Food Safety Issues.

Systematic analysis reveals that colony housing aligns gait profiles and strengthens link between 1 histological and micro-CT bone markers in rat models of osteoarthritis 2 Short running title: Colony housing strengthens osteoarthritis research (2021)
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Chang, Y.-M., Menges, S., Westhof, A., Kleinschmidt-Doerr, K., Brenneis, C., Pitsillides, A. A., & Chang, Y.-M. (in press). Systematic analysis reveals that colony housing aligns gait profiles and strengthens link between 1 histological and micro-CT bone markers in rat models of osteoarthritis 2 Short running title: Colony housing strengthens osteoarthritis research. FASEB Journal, -. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202002009R

Re-sensitization of Mycobacterium smegmatis to Rifampicin Using CRISPR Interference Demonstrates Its Utility for the Study of Non-essential Drug Resistance Traits (2021)
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Kendall, S. L., Faulkner, V., Cox, A. A., Goh, S., van Bohemen, A., Gibson, A. J., Liebster, O., Wren, B. W., & Willcocks, S. (in press). Re-sensitization of Mycobacterium smegmatis to Rifampicin Using CRISPR Interference Demonstrates Its Utility for the Study of Non-essential Drug Resistance Traits. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.619427

A greater understanding of the genes involved in antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is necessary for the design of improved therapies. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat interference (CRISPRi) has been pre... Read More about Re-sensitization of Mycobacterium smegmatis to Rifampicin Using CRISPR Interference Demonstrates Its Utility for the Study of Non-essential Drug Resistance Traits.

Dietary and Nutritional Approaches to the Management of Chronic Enteropathy in Dogs and Cats (2021)
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Kathrani, A. (2021). Dietary and Nutritional Approaches to the Management of Chronic Enteropathy in Dogs and Cats. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 51(1), 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cvsm.2020.09.005

Nutrition can influence those functions of the gastrointestinal tract that can be adversely affected in chronic enteropathy, such as microbiota, mucosal immune system, intestinal permeability, and motility. Diet serves as a possible risk factor in di... Read More about Dietary and Nutritional Approaches to the Management of Chronic Enteropathy in Dogs and Cats.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses at the Wild–Domestic Bird Interface in Europe: Future Directions for Research and Surveillance (2021)
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Verhagen, J. H., Fouchier, R. A., & Lewis, N. (in press). Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses at the Wild–Domestic Bird Interface in Europe: Future Directions for Research and Surveillance. Viruses, 13(2), 212. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13020212

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in wild birds and poultry are no longer a rare phenomenon in Europe. In the past 15 years, HPAI outbreaks—in particular those caused by H5 viruses derived from the A/Goose/Guangdong/1/1996 lineage th... Read More about Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses at the Wild–Domestic Bird Interface in Europe: Future Directions for Research and Surveillance.

A Cohort Study Risk Factor Analysis for Endemic Disease in Pre- weaned Dairy Heifer Calves (2021)
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Johnson, K. F., Chancellor, N., & Wathes, D. C. (in press). A Cohort Study Risk Factor Analysis for Endemic Disease in Pre- weaned Dairy Heifer Calves. Animals, https://doi.org/10.3390/xxxxx

Simple Summary: Most dairy heifer calves are removed from their dam and reared on milk from birth until weaning at around nine weeks of age. During this period they are susceptible to diseases which reduce their welfare and later performance in the d... Read More about A Cohort Study Risk Factor Analysis for Endemic Disease in Pre- weaned Dairy Heifer Calves.

The Health and Behavioural Effects of Individual versus Pair Housing of Calves at Different Ages on a UK Commercial Dairy Farm (2021)
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Mahendran, S., Blackie, N., Booth, R., & Wathes, C. The Health and Behavioural Effects of Individual versus Pair Housing of Calves at Different Ages on a UK Commercial Dairy Farm. Manuscript submitted for publication

Housing management of dairy calves is one of the factors that contributes to a successful rearing outcome. Individual housing of pre-weaned calves is thought to provide enhanced biosecurity and easier monitoring of the individual, and so remains prev... Read More about The Health and Behavioural Effects of Individual versus Pair Housing of Calves at Different Ages on a UK Commercial Dairy Farm.

“Health in” and “Health of” Social-Ecological Systems: A Practical Framework for the Management of Healthy and Resilient Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems (2021)
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De Garine-Wichatitsky, M., Binot, A., Ward, J., Caron, A., Perrotton, A., Ross, H., Tran Quoc, H., Valls-Fox, H., Gordon, I. J., Promburom, P., Ancog, R., Anthony Kock, R., Morand, S., Chevalier, V., Allen, W., Phimpraphai, W., Duboz, R., & Echaubard, P. (2021). “Health in” and “Health of” Social-Ecological Systems: A Practical Framework for the Management of Healthy and Resilient Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.616328

The past two decades have seen an accumulation of theoretical and empirical evidence for the interlinkages between human health and well-being, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and agriculture. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the devastatin... Read More about “Health in” and “Health of” Social-Ecological Systems: A Practical Framework for the Management of Healthy and Resilient Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems.

The role of mitochondria in cocaine addiction (2021)
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Thornton, C., Grad, E., & Yaka, R. (in press). The role of mitochondria in cocaine addiction. Biochemical Journal,

The incidence of cocaine abuse is increasing especially in the UK where the rates are among the highest in Europe. In addition to its role as a psychostimulant, cocaine has profound effect on brain metabolism, impacting glycolysis and impairing oxida... Read More about The role of mitochondria in cocaine addiction.

Identification of Risk Factors Associated with Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross Sectional Study (2021)
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Elmi, S. A., Simons, D., Elton, L., Haider, N., Abdel Hamid, M. M., Shuaib, Y. A., Khan, M. A., Othman, I., Kock, R., & Osman, A. Y. (2021). Identification of Risk Factors Associated with Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross Sectional Study. Antibiotics, 10(2), 117. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10020117

Natriuretic peptide expression and function in GH3 somatolactotropes and feline somatotrope pituitary tumors (2021)
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Mirczuk, S., Scudder, C., Read, J., Crossley, V., Regan, J., Richardson, K., Simbi, B., Mcardle, C., Church, D., Fenn, J., Kenny, P., Volk, H., Wheeler-Jones, C., Korbonits, M., Niessen, S., Mcgonnell, I., & Fowkes, R. (2021). Natriuretic peptide expression and function in GH3 somatolactotropes and feline somatotrope pituitary tumors. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, -. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22031076

Patients harbouring mutations in genes encoding C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP; NPPC) or its receptor guanylyl cyclase B (GC-B, NPR2) suffer from severe growth phenotypes; loss-of-function mutations cause achondroplasia, whereas gain-of-function mut... Read More about Natriuretic peptide expression and function in GH3 somatolactotropes and feline somatotrope pituitary tumors.