Summary: Endocrine Disruptors (EDs) have been a cause for concern throughout the 20thand 21stcentury. EDs are environmental agents and can be either organic orman-made. They are found throughout the world.

With the discovery of antibiotics came resistance. The challenge now is to find alternatives of these agents. Especially in the livestock sector, antibiotics were and still are often given way too much, either prophylactically ...

The T-2 toxin is a type A trichothecene, produced by various Fusarium species and it is one of the most toxic trichothecene mycotoxins for humans and animals. Therefore, the investigation of the effects of T-2 ...

Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) has been reported as a nonselective matriptase activator. Matriptase-1 (MT-1) and matriptase-2 (MT-2) belong to the type II transmembrane serine protease family. However,MT-1 ...

Summary: Cryptorchidismisconsideredtobeanautosomalrecessivetraitcommontoboththecanineandequinespecies.Manystudieshavehighlighteditscomplexpathogenesisinfluencedbygenetics,epigeneticsandtheenvironment.Itisknowntohaveahigh ...

ABSTRACT: Immune mediated haemolytic anaemia (IMHA) is one of the most common forms of anaemia seen in small animal medicine practices. It can occur primary or secondary to an underlying disease. IMHA occurs to antibodies ...

Abstract : In this thesis the effect of conventional milking practices on milk quality and the prevalence of mastitis in Irish dairy farms will be studied. The thesis will start with an introduction to the topic focusing ...

Summary: This thesis was concerned with examining the literature written on the subjectof surgical safety checklists with the express purpose of discovering their efficacy with an aim to creating a new and novel surgical ...

The objective of this work was to study the historical background of the old native Hungarian swine breed Mangalica and explore the possibilities of saving the genetic gene pool with the method in vivo gene preservation. ...