During the peripartal period the dairy cow undergoes enormous metabolic changes switching from the anabolic to the catabolic status due to the onset of lactation. In early lactation the cow is in a negative energy balance ...

Obesity is a multifactorial disease which prevalence is increasing around the world both in human and dog population. Factors like female dogs, older animals, Labrador retriever breed and neutering have been demonstrated ...

At the time where equine medicine is becoming more and more modern and efficient, it’s important to develop method to diagnose fetal well-being in horse and prevent the loss of foal or mare during pregnancy which is a ...

In November 2015 a study was conducted on a group of Przewalski horses in Hungary, in order to determine the occurrence of Equine Herpes Virus 1, Equine Infectious Anemia and Equine Viral Arteritis. These horses live wild ...

Equid herpesvirus 5 (EHV-5) belongs to the Gammaherpesvirinae subfamily as a member of the Percavirus genus. Some viruses from the Herpesviridae family are well known pathogens that cause sever diseases, but in contrast ...

This thesis is dedicated to find out the situation in Norway when it comes to Listeria monocytogenes in the food. Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that is naturally present in the environment around us, and can ...

The hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a reversible metabolic syndrome that can appear due to acute liver failure, chronic liver failure or portosystemic shunt. The problem is that several neurotoxic compounds that are absorbed ...

The records of 84 horses with peritonitis, admitted to Evidensia Strömsholm Equine Referral Hospital over a period of 11 years were examined. Foals were excluded as well as horses with an incomplete medical history. The ...

In this review, the author collected all the available information supporting the hypothesis of functional asymmetry in the case of the hypothalamus. These findings, often sporadic and sometimes by-products of the original ...