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Effect of neutering timing in relation to puberty on health in the female dog–a scoping review (2024)
Journal Article
Moxon, R., England, G. C. W., Payne, R., Corr, S. A., & Freeman, S. L. (2024). Effect of neutering timing in relation to puberty on health in the female dog–a scoping review. PLoS ONE, 19(10), Article e0311779. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311779

Background: Effects of neutering on bitch health have been reported, and are suggested to relate to bitch age at the time of neutering for some diseases. However, variation between published studies in terms of study populations and methodologies mak... Read More about Effect of neutering timing in relation to puberty on health in the female dog–a scoping review.

Reporting outcome measures in veterinary physiotherapy with particular reference to the treatment of canine and equine joint cases in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Brookes, W., Payne, R., & Lea, R. (2024). Reporting outcome measures in veterinary physiotherapy with particular reference to the treatment of canine and equine joint cases in the UK. Veterinary Record, 194(6), Article e3900. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.3900

Background: Outcome measures are extensively used within human physiotherapy, but a widely accepted issue in veterinary physiotherapy is that outcome measures lack sufficient evaluation and standardisation in terms of how they are implemented. This c... Read More about Reporting outcome measures in veterinary physiotherapy with particular reference to the treatment of canine and equine joint cases in the UK.

Audio-based AI classifiers show no evidence of improved COVID-19 screening over simple symptoms checkers (2024)
Journal Article
Coppock, H., Nicholson, G., Kiskin, I., Koutra, V., Baker, K., Budd, J., Payne, R., Karoune, E., Hurley, D., Titcomb, A., Egglestone, S., Tendero Cañadas, A., Butler, L., Jersakova, R., Mellor, J., Patel, S., Thornley, T., Diggle, P., Richardson, S., Packham, J., …Holmes, C. (2024). Audio-based AI classifiers show no evidence of improved COVID-19 screening over simple symptoms checkers. Nature Machine Intelligence, 6, 229-242. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00773-8

Recent work has reported that respiratory audio-trained AI classifiers can accurately predict SARS-CoV-2 infection status. However, it has not yet been determined whether such model performance is driven by latent audio biomarkers with true causal li... Read More about Audio-based AI classifiers show no evidence of improved COVID-19 screening over simple symptoms checkers.

A Prospective Cohort Study Investigating the Impact of Neutering Bitches Prepubertally or Post-Pubertally on Physical Development (2023)
Journal Article
Moxon, R., Freeman, S. L., Payne, R., Godfrey-Hunt, J., Corr, S., & England, G. C. W. (2023). A Prospective Cohort Study Investigating the Impact of Neutering Bitches Prepubertally or Post-Pubertally on Physical Development. Animals, 13(9), Article 1431. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13091431

No previous large prospective cohort studies have been identified that have investigated the impact of the surgical neutering of bitches before or after known puberty on their growth and physical development. This study was designed to examine the da... Read More about A Prospective Cohort Study Investigating the Impact of Neutering Bitches Prepubertally or Post-Pubertally on Physical Development.

Effect of neutering timing in relation to puberty on female dog behaviour—A scoping review (2023)
Journal Article
Moxon, R., Freeman, S. L., Payne, R., Corr, S., & England, G. C. W. (2023). Effect of neutering timing in relation to puberty on female dog behaviour—A scoping review. Veterinary Record, 193(1), Article e2882. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.2882

Background
There are contradictory findings in the literature relating to the effects of timing of neutering on bitch behaviour that make decision making regarding neutering timing difficult.

Methods
A scoping review was designed to identify an... Read More about Effect of neutering timing in relation to puberty on female dog behaviour—A scoping review.

Effects of norethisterone acetate on the performance of female racing Greyhounds (2022)
Journal Article
Payne, R. M. (2023). Effects of norethisterone acetate on the performance of female racing Greyhounds. Research in Veterinary Science, 155, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2022.12.013

A comparison between the performance of spayed female racing Greyhounds and those suppressed with norethisterone acetate (NTA) was made. Previous work by the author has shown that the racing performance of spayed bitches is the same as that of entire... Read More about Effects of norethisterone acetate on the performance of female racing Greyhounds.

A Prospective Cohort Study Investigating the Behavioural Development of Bitches in a Guide Dog Training Programme Neutered Prepubertally or Post-Pubertally (2022)
Journal Article
Moxon, R., Freeman, S., Payne, R., Corr, S., & England, G. C. W. (2022). A Prospective Cohort Study Investigating the Behavioural Development of Bitches in a Guide Dog Training Programme Neutered Prepubertally or Post-Pubertally. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 902775. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.902775

There are few studies that investigate the effect of neutering bitches before or after puberty. The majority of current literature examining the impact of the timing of neutering on health and behaviour has used age rather than the onset of puberty a... Read More about A Prospective Cohort Study Investigating the Behavioural Development of Bitches in a Guide Dog Training Programme Neutered Prepubertally or Post-Pubertally.

The effect of spaying on the racing performance of female greyhounds (2013)
Journal Article
Payne, R. M. (2013). The effect of spaying on the racing performance of female greyhounds. Veterinary Journal, 198(2), 372-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2013.08.026

The effect of spaying (ovariohysterectomy) on racing greyhound performance was analysed. Using data from a longitudinal observational study design, random effects models were used to compare the racing performance before and after spaying. Greyhounds... Read More about The effect of spaying on the racing performance of female greyhounds.