All Outputs (12)

Owners’ views of canine nutrition, weight and wellbeing and their implications for the veterinary consultation (2022)
Journal Article

Objectives: To investigate owners’ views around canine nutrition and wellbeing, how these beliefs may differ according to the weight status of the dog and the implications for owner support approaches. Materials and Methods: A researcher-mediated que... Read More about Owners’ views of canine nutrition, weight and wellbeing and their implications for the veterinary consultation.

Understanding obesity among companion dogs: New measures of owner's beliefs and behaviour and associations with body condition scores (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. This research aimed to improve our understanding of how owners’ beliefs and behaviour are associated with obesity in companion dogs. To do this, we employed new theoretical frameworks and integrated previously reported measures t... Read More about Understanding obesity among companion dogs: New measures of owner's beliefs and behaviour and associations with body condition scores.

The overlooked cohort? – Improving the taught postgraduate student experience in higher education (2019)
Journal Article

Taught postgraduate students in the UK have a limited timeframe for study, with most full-time courses requiring intense scholarship, typically over a 12-month period. Many of these students face challenges and concerns with the transition from under... Read More about The overlooked cohort? – Improving the taught postgraduate student experience in higher education.

Evaluation of vegetable protein in canine diets: assessment of performance and apparent ileal amino acid digestibility using a broiler model (2017)
Journal Article

Recent technological advances in the human food industry with respect to meat processing have decreased the availability of animal proteins to the pet food industry which typically formulates diets with an excess of animal protein. In the long term,... Read More about Evaluation of vegetable protein in canine diets: assessment of performance and apparent ileal amino acid digestibility using a broiler model.

Rapeseed napin and cruciferin are readily digested by poultry (2016)
Journal Article

Rapeseed proteins have been considered as being poorly digestible in the gut of non-ruminants. The aim of the study was to assess the digestibility of napin and cruciferin in ileal digesta of broiler chickens, testing sixteen samples of rapeseed co-p... Read More about Rapeseed napin and cruciferin are readily digested by poultry.

“Who's been a good dog?” – Owner perceptions and motivations for treat giving (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Complex relationships commonly exist between owners and their companion animals, particularly around feeding behaviour with an owner's affection or love for their animal most pronounced through the provision of food. It is notabl... Read More about “Who's been a good dog?” – Owner perceptions and motivations for treat giving.

Effects of rapeseed variety and oil extraction method on the content and ileal digestibility of crude protein and amino acids in rapeseed cake and softly processed rapeseed meal fed to broiler chickens (2016)
Journal Article

We examined the effects of rapeseed variety and oil extraction method on crude protein (CP) and amino acid (AA) content in rapeseed co-products, and determined their coefficient of apparent (AID) and standardised ileal digestibility (SID) in broiler... Read More about Effects of rapeseed variety and oil extraction method on the content and ileal digestibility of crude protein and amino acids in rapeseed cake and softly processed rapeseed meal fed to broiler chickens.

Replacement of soya bean meal with peas and faba beans in growing/finishing pig diets: Effect on performance, carcass composition and nutrient excretion (2015)
Journal Article

There is now an increasing debate about the viability of using temperate-grown legumes in pig diets as a potential replacement for imported soya bean meal (SBM) and this is due to food security, sustainability and environmental concerns. Two trials w... Read More about Replacement of soya bean meal with peas and faba beans in growing/finishing pig diets: Effect on performance, carcass composition and nutrient excretion.

Assessment of caecal parameters in layer hens fed on diets containing wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (2015)
Journal Article

There is much interest in quantifying the nutritional value of UK wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (W-DDGS) for livestock species. A study was designed to evaluate caecal parameters (pH, short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and bacterial divers... Read More about Assessment of caecal parameters in layer hens fed on diets containing wheat distillers dried grains with solubles.

Influence of the in vivo method and basal dietary ingredients employed in the determination of the amino acid digestibility of wheat distillers dried grains with solubles in broilers (2014)
Journal Article

As distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) become increasingly available, it is important to determine their nutritional value for precise feed formulation. The accurate determination of digestibility is crucial, and it is known that the methods... Read More about Influence of the in vivo method and basal dietary ingredients employed in the determination of the amino acid digestibility of wheat distillers dried grains with solubles in broilers.

Mammalian innate resistance to highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus infection is mediated through reduced proinflammation and infectious virus release (2012)
Journal Article

Respiratory epithelial cells and macrophages are the key innate immune cells that play an important role in the pathogenesis of influenza A virus infection. We found that these two cell types from both human and pig showed comparable susceptibilities... Read More about Mammalian innate resistance to highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus infection is mediated through reduced proinflammation and infectious virus release.

18S rRNA is a reliable normalisation gene for real time PCR based on influenza virus infected cells
Journal Article

Background: One requisite of quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) is to normalise the data with an internal reference gene that is invariant regardless of treatment, such as virus infection. Several studies have found variability in the... Read More about 18S rRNA is a reliable normalisation gene for real time PCR based on influenza virus infected cells.