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Dairy vs. beef production – expert views on welfare of cattle in common food production systems (2022)
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Mandel, R., Bracke, M., Nicol, C., Webster, J., & Gygax, L. (2022). Dairy vs. beef production – expert views on welfare of cattle in common food production systems. animal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2022.100622

Consumers’ views and concerns about the welfare of farm animals may play an important role in their decision to consume dairy, meat and/or plants as their primary protein source. As animals are killed prematurely in both dairy and beef industries, it... Read More about Dairy vs. beef production – expert views on welfare of cattle in common food production systems.

What Did We Learn About Fracture Pain from Animal Models? (2022)
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Radulescu, A., White, F. A., & Chenu, C. (in press). What Did We Learn About Fracture Pain from Animal Models?. Journal of Pain Research, Volume 15, 2845-2856. https://doi.org/10.2147/jpr.s361826

Progress in bone fracture repair research has been made possible due to the development of reproducible models of fracture in rodents with more clinically relevant fracture fixation, where there is considerably better assessment of the factors that a... Read More about What Did We Learn About Fracture Pain from Animal Models?.

Agreeing Language in Veterinary Endocrinology (ALIVE): Diabetes mellitus - a modified Delphi-method-based system to create consensus disease definitions (2022)
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ESVE SCE Membership, Niessen, S., Bjornvad, C., Church, D., Davison, L., Esteban-Saltiveri, D., …Thuroczy, J. (2022). Agreeing Language in Veterinary Endocrinology (ALIVE): Diabetes mellitus - a modified Delphi-method-based system to create consensus disease definitions. The Veterinary Journal, 289, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2022.105910

Environmental and Social Influences on the Behaviour of Free-Living Mandarin Ducks in Richmond Park (2022)
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Munday, C., & Rose, P. (2022). Environmental and Social Influences on the Behaviour of Free-Living Mandarin Ducks in Richmond Park. Animals, 12(19), https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12192554

Simple Summary Collecting information on how wild animals behave in the free-living environment can be useful for improving how such species are managed when under human care (e.g., in the zoo). Mandarin Ducks are an example of a species with a large... Read More about Environmental and Social Influences on the Behaviour of Free-Living Mandarin Ducks in Richmond Park.

Ketogenic diets in healthy dogs induce gut and serum metabolome changes suggestive of anti-tumourigenic effects: A model for human ketotherapy trials (2022)
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Allenspach, K., Borcherding, D., Iennarella-Servantez, C., Mosichuk, A., Atherly, T., Sahoo, D., …Mochel, J. (2022). Ketogenic diets in healthy dogs induce gut and serum metabolome changes suggestive of anti-tumourigenic effects: A model for human ketotherapy trials. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 12(9), https://doi.org/10.1002/ctm2.1047

Interleukin-10 Deficiency Impacts on TNF-Induced NFκB Regulated Responses In Vivo (2022)
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Papoutsopoulou, S., Pollock, L., Williams, J. M., Abdul-Mahdi, M. M. L. F., Dobbash, R., Duckworth, C. A., & Campbell, B. J. (in press). Interleukin-10 Deficiency Impacts on TNF-Induced NFκB Regulated Responses In Vivo. Biology, 11(10), 1377. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11101377

Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is an anti-inflammatory cytokine that has a major protective role against intestinal inflammation. We recently revealed that intestinal epithelial cells in vitro regulate NFκB-driven transcriptional responses to TNF via an auto... Read More about Interleukin-10 Deficiency Impacts on TNF-Induced NFκB Regulated Responses In Vivo.

The Correlation of Endogenous Progesterone Concentration in Diestrus on Early Pregnancy Rate in Thoroughbred Mares (2022)
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Hollinshead, F., Mehegan, M., Gunn, A., Nett, T., Bruemmer, J., & Hanlon, D. (2022). The Correlation of Endogenous Progesterone Concentration in Diestrus on Early Pregnancy Rate in Thoroughbred Mares. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 118, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jevs.2022.104127

The aim of this project was to test the hypothesis that progesterone concentration 5 days after ovula-tion did not differ between pregnant and nonpregnant Thoroughbred mares on stud farms located in the Waikato region of New Zealand. A prospective co... Read More about The Correlation of Endogenous Progesterone Concentration in Diestrus on Early Pregnancy Rate in Thoroughbred Mares.

Galleria mellonella as an infection model for the virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv (2022)
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Asai, M., Li, Y., Spiropoulos, J., Cooley, W., Everest, D. J., Kendall, S., …Newton, S. M. (2022). Galleria mellonella as an infection model for the virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Virulence, https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2022.2119657

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is a leading cause of infectious disease mortality. Animal infection models have contributed substantially to our understanding of TB, yet their biological and non-biological limitation... Read More about Galleria mellonella as an infection model for the virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv.

Cytosolic sequestration of spatacsin by Protein Kinase A and 14-3-3 proteins (2022)
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Cogo, S., Tomkins, J., Vavouraki, N., Giusti, V., Forcellato, F., Franchin, C., …Greggio, E. (2022). Cytosolic sequestration of spatacsin by Protein Kinase A and 14-3-3 proteins. Neurobiology of Disease, 174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105858

Mutations in SPG11, encoding spatacsin, constitute the major cause of autosomal recessive Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) with thinning of the corpus callosum. Previous studies showed that spatacsin orchestrates cellular traffic events through th... Read More about Cytosolic sequestration of spatacsin by Protein Kinase A and 14-3-3 proteins.

Survey investigating factors affecting recruitment and retention in the UK veterinary nursing profession (2022)
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Hagen, J., Weller, R., Mair, T., Batt-Williams, S., & Kinnison, T. (2022). Survey investigating factors affecting recruitment and retention in the UK veterinary nursing profession. Vet Record Case Reports, https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.2078

Background: Recruitment and retention have been identified as contributing factors to workforce shortages in the veterinary team. Methods: Results from veterinary nurses to an online questionnaire regarding recruitment and retention were analysed. Re... Read More about Survey investigating factors affecting recruitment and retention in the UK veterinary nursing profession.

Investigation Of Factors Affecting Recruitment And Retention In The UK Veterinary Nursing Profession (2022)
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Hagen, J., Weller, R., Mair, T., Batt-Williams, S., & Kinnison, T. (2022). Investigation Of Factors Affecting Recruitment And Retention In The UK Veterinary Nursing Profession. Vet Record Case Reports, https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.106044

Background Recruitment and retention have been identified as contributing factors to workforce shortages in the veterinary team. Methods In this second part of a project exploring recruitment and retention in veterinary professions, results from v... Read More about Investigation Of Factors Affecting Recruitment And Retention In The UK Veterinary Nursing Profession.

Additional stains and immunohistochemistry: what else can the pathologist tell us? (2022)
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Priestnall, S., & Suarez-Bonnet, A. (2022). Additional stains and immunohistochemistry: what else can the pathologist tell us?. In Practice, 44(7), 385-393. https://doi.org/10.1002/inpr.90

Background: For the veterinary pathologist, the 'bread and butter' of our work is the tissue slide stained with haematoxylin and eosin (H&E). This has long become globally recognised as the 'standard' stain, with haematoxylin highlighting the nuclei... Read More about Additional stains and immunohistochemistry: what else can the pathologist tell us?.

Modelling livestock test-and-treat: A novel One Health strategy to control schistosomiasis and mitigate drug resistance (2022)
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Díaz, A. V., Lambert, S., Neves, M. I., Borlase, A., Léger, E., Diouf, N. D., …Walker, M. (2022). Modelling livestock test-and-treat: A novel One Health strategy to control schistosomiasis and mitigate drug resistance. Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 3, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2022.893066

Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, is a widespread chronic helminthiasis reported in 78 countries, predominantly those within sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Latin America, Asia, and most recently, even Europe. Species of the causative blo... Read More about Modelling livestock test-and-treat: A novel One Health strategy to control schistosomiasis and mitigate drug resistance.

Investigation of in vitro susceptibility and resistance mechanisms in skin pathogens: perspectives for fluoroquinolone therapy in canine pyoderma (2022)
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Azzariti, S., Bond, R., Loeffler, A., Zendri, F., Timofte, D., Chang, Y., & Pelligand, L. (2022). Investigation of in vitro susceptibility and resistance mechanisms in skin pathogens: perspectives for fluoroquinolone therapy in canine pyoderma. Antibiotics, https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11091204

Fluoroquinolones (FQ) are commonly used in dogs with bacterial skin infections. Their use as first choice, along with the increased incidence of FQ-resistance, represents a risk to animal and public health. Our study determined minimum inhibitory (M... Read More about Investigation of in vitro susceptibility and resistance mechanisms in skin pathogens: perspectives for fluoroquinolone therapy in canine pyoderma.

Copy Number Variants in Two Northernmost Cattle Breeds Are Related to Their Adaptive Phenotypes (2022)
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Buggiotti, L., Yudin, N., & Larkin, D. (2022). Copy Number Variants in Two Northernmost Cattle Breeds Are Related to Their Adaptive Phenotypes. Genes, 13(9), https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13091595

Copy number variations (CNVs) are genomic structural variants with potential functional and evolutionary effects on phenotypes. In this study, we report the identification and characterization of CNVs from the whole-genome resequencing data of two no... Read More about Copy Number Variants in Two Northernmost Cattle Breeds Are Related to Their Adaptive Phenotypes.

Endogenous Viral Elements in Shrew Genomes Provide Insights into Pestivirus Ancient History (2022)
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Li, Y., Bletsa, M., Zisi, Z., Boonen, I., Gryseels, S., Kafetzopoulou, L., …Lequime, S. (2022). Endogenous Viral Elements in Shrew Genomes Provide Insights into Pestivirus Ancient History. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(10), https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac190

As viral genomic imprints in host genomes, endogenous viral elements (EVEs) shed light on the deep evolutionary history of viruses, ancestral host ranges, and ancient viral-host interactions. In addition, they may provide crucial information for cali... Read More about Endogenous Viral Elements in Shrew Genomes Provide Insights into Pestivirus Ancient History.