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Evaluation of veterinarians’ views on the aetiology and treatment of retained fetal membranes in the mare (2017)
Journal Article
Parrott, L., Freeman, S., & Duz, M. (2017). Evaluation of veterinarians’ views on the aetiology and treatment of retained fetal membranes in the mare. Equine Veterinary Journal, 49(S51), 22. https://doi.org/10.1111/evj.38_12732

Reasons for performing study: Retained fetal membranes (RFM) is reported as the most common problem in the post-partum mare. As yet, there has been no research providing an insight into the veterinary clinician’s knowledge of RFM. Objectives: Evalua... Read More about Evaluation of veterinarians’ views on the aetiology and treatment of retained fetal membranes in the mare.

Biology and genomics of an historic therapeutic Escherichia coli bacteriophage collection (2017)
Journal Article
Baig, A., Colom, J., Barrow, P., Schouler, C., Moodley, A., Lavigne, R., & Atterbury, R. J. (2017). Biology and genomics of an historic therapeutic Escherichia coli bacteriophage collection. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, Article 1652. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01652

We have performed microbiological and genomic characterization of an historic collection of nine bacteriophages, specifically infecting a K1 E. coli O18:K1:H7 ColV+ strain. These phages were isolated from sewage and tested for their efficacy in vivo... Read More about Biology and genomics of an historic therapeutic Escherichia coli bacteriophage collection.

Herd-level prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases of dairy cows in Great Britain (2017)
Journal Article
Velasova, M., Damaso, A., Prakashbabu, B. C., Gibbons, J., Wheelhouse, N., Longbottom, D., …Guitian, J. (in press). Herd-level prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases of dairy cows in Great Britain. Journal of Dairy Science, 100, https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2016-11863

To implement appropriate and effective disease control programs at the national level, up-to-date and unbiased information on disease frequency is needed. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases in... Read More about Herd-level prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases of dairy cows in Great Britain.

The chronic stages of bovine Fasciola hepatica are dominated by CD4 T-Cell exhaustion (2017)
Journal Article
Sachdev, D., Gough, K. C., & Flynn, R. J. (2017). The chronic stages of bovine Fasciola hepatica are dominated by CD4 T-Cell exhaustion. Frontiers in Immunology, 8, Article 1002. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01002

Fasciola hepatica infection of ruminants leads to non-resolving chronic infection, as patency develops, there is switching to a TGF-? and IL-10 led response. Here, we explore the responses of CD4 T-cells within the major draining lymph nodes. We foun... Read More about The chronic stages of bovine Fasciola hepatica are dominated by CD4 T-Cell exhaustion.

Informed consent in veterinary medicine: ethical implications for the profession and the animal 'patient' (2017)
Journal Article
Ashall, V., Millar, K. M., & Hobson-West, P. (2018). Informed consent in veterinary medicine: ethical implications for the profession and the animal 'patient'. Food Ethics, 1(3), 247-258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41055-017-0016-2

Informed consent processes are a vital component of both human and veterinary medicine. Current practice encourages veterinarians to learn from insights in the human medical field about how best to achieve valid consent. However, drawing on published... Read More about Informed consent in veterinary medicine: ethical implications for the profession and the animal 'patient'.

Parental protein malnutrition programmes of offspring growth and vasculature to increase risk of cardiovascular, pancreatic, and metabolic disease: lessons learned from animal studies (2017)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Diaz, M. D., Partridge, H., Davidson, F., Mongan, N. P., Gardner, D. S., & Rutland, C. S. (2017). Parental protein malnutrition programmes of offspring growth and vasculature to increase risk of cardiovascular, pancreatic, and metabolic disease: lessons learned from animal studies. European Medical Journal Reproductive Health, 3(1),

It is well known that consumption of a balanced diet throughout adulthood is key toward maintenance of optimal body weight and cardiovascular health. Research using animal models can provide insights into the programming of short and long-term health... Read More about Parental protein malnutrition programmes of offspring growth and vasculature to increase risk of cardiovascular, pancreatic, and metabolic disease: lessons learned from animal studies.

Clinician attitudes to pain and use of analgesia in cattle: where are we 10 years on? (2017)
Journal Article
Remnant, J. G., Tremlett, A., Huxley, J. N., & Hudson, C. D. (in press). Clinician attitudes to pain and use of analgesia in cattle: where are we 10 years on?. Veterinary Record, 181, Article 400. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104428

Pain in cattle can arise though disease or injury or may result from veterinary or husbandry procedures. Controlling pain is important to safeguard animal welfare. Previous studies indicated that the use of analgesics in cattle has lagged behind use... Read More about Clinician attitudes to pain and use of analgesia in cattle: where are we 10 years on?.

Genomic data illuminates demography, genetic structure and selection of a popular dog breed (2017)
Journal Article
Wiener, P., Sánchez-Molano, E., Clements, D. N., Woolliams, J. A., Haskell, M. J., & Blott, S. C. (2017). Genomic data illuminates demography, genetic structure and selection of a popular dog breed. BMC Genomics, 18, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3933-x

BACKGROUND: Genomic methods have proved to be important tools in the analysis of genetic diversity across the range of species and can be used to reveal processes underlying both short- and long-term evolutionary change. This study applied genomic me... Read More about Genomic data illuminates demography, genetic structure and selection of a popular dog breed.

Computed tomography in veterinary medicine: currently published and tomorrow’s vision (2017)
Book Chapter
Keane, M., Paul, E., Sturrock, C., Rauch, C., & Rutland, C. S. (in press). Computed tomography in veterinary medicine: currently published and tomorrow’s vision. In A. M. Halefoğlu (Ed.), Computed tomography: advanced applications. InTechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.68556

The utilisation of Computed Tomography (CT) in veterinary practice has been increasing rapidly in line with reduced cost, improved availability and the increase in expertise and technology. This review briefly examines the recent technological advanc... Read More about Computed tomography in veterinary medicine: currently published and tomorrow’s vision.

Erratum for Aidley et al., “Nonselective Bottlenecks Control the Divergence and Diversification of Phase-Variable Bacterial Populations” (2017)
Journal Article
Aidley, J., Jones, M. A., Rajopadhye, S., Akinyemi, N. M., Lango-Scholey, L., & Bayliss, C. D. (2017). Erratum for Aidley et al., “Nonselective Bottlenecks Control the Divergence and Diversification of Phase-Variable Bacterial Populations”. mBio, 8(4), https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00878-17

© 2017 Aidley et al. Volume 8, no. 2, e02311-16, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02311-16. The byline and affiliation line of our article should appear as shown above. The following should also be added to the end of Acknowledgments: “M.A.J. was s... Read More about Erratum for Aidley et al., “Nonselective Bottlenecks Control the Divergence and Diversification of Phase-Variable Bacterial Populations”.

Control of infectious diseases in dairy cattle (2017)
Book Chapter
Wapenaar, W., Archer, S. C., Remnant, J., & Murphy, A. (2017). Control of infectious diseases in dairy cattle. In J. Webster (Ed.), Achieving sustainable production of milk. Burleigh Dodd Science Publishing

This chapter describes developments of infectious disease control in the dairy cattle industry, and outlines recent research in this area. A risk analysis approach is presented as a framework for managing infectious disease at global and farm level.... Read More about Control of infectious diseases in dairy cattle.

Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): bluetongue (2017)
Journal Article
More, S., Bicout, D., Bøtner, A., Butterworth, A., Depner, K., Edwards, S., …Calistri, P. (in press). Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): bluetongue. EFSA Journal, 15(8), https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4957

A specific concept of strain was developed in order to classify the BTV serotypes ever reported in Europe based on their properties of animal health impact: the genotype, morbidity, mortality, speed of spread, period and geographical area of occurren... Read More about Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): bluetongue.

Tissue cell stress response to obesity and its interaction with late gestational diet (2017)
Journal Article
Saroha, V., Dellschaft, N. S., Keisler, D. H., Gardner, D. S., Budge, H., Sebert, S. P., & Symonds, M. E. (2018). Tissue cell stress response to obesity and its interaction with late gestational diet. Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 30, https://doi.org/10.1071/RD16494

Intra-uterine growth restriction in late pregnancy can contribute to adverse long term metabolic health in the offspring. We utilised an animal (sheep) model of maternal dietary manipulation in late pregnancy, combined with exposure of the offspring... Read More about Tissue cell stress response to obesity and its interaction with late gestational diet.

Cytochalasin B-induced membrane vesicles convey angiogenic activity of parental cells (2017)
Journal Article
Gomzikova, M., Zhuravleva, M., Miftakhova, R., Arkhipova, S., Evtugin, V., Khaiboullina, S., …Rizvanov, A. A. (2017). Cytochalasin B-induced membrane vesicles convey angiogenic activity of parental cells. Oncotarget, 8(41), https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19723

Naturally occurring extracellular vesicles (EVs) play essential roles in intracellular communication and delivery of bioactive molecules. Therefore it has been suggested that EVs could be used for delivery of therapeutics. However, to date the therap... Read More about Cytochalasin B-induced membrane vesicles convey angiogenic activity of parental cells.

Application of survival analysis and multistate modeling to understand animal behavior: examples from guide dogs (2017)
Journal Article
Asher, L., Harvey, N. D., Green, M., & England, G. C. (2017). Application of survival analysis and multistate modeling to understand animal behavior: examples from guide dogs. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 4, Article 116. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2017.00116

Epidemiology is the study of patterns of health-related states or events in populations. Statistical models developed for epidemiology could be usefully applied to behavioral states or events. The aim of this study is to present the application of ep... Read More about Application of survival analysis and multistate modeling to understand animal behavior: examples from guide dogs.

Expression of NAD(P)H quinone dehydrogenase 1 (NQO1) is increased in the endometrium of women with endometrial cancer and women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (2017)
Journal Article
Atiomo, W., Shafiee, M. N., Chapman, C., Metzler, V. M., Abouzeid, J., Latif, A., …Mongan, N. P. (2017). Expression of NAD(P)H quinone dehydrogenase 1 (NQO1) is increased in the endometrium of women with endometrial cancer and women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Clinical Endocrinology, 87(5), 557-565. https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.13436

OBJECTIVE: Women with a prior history of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have an increased risk of endometrial cancer (EC). AIM: To investigate whether the endometrium of women with PCOS possess gene expression changes similar to those found in EC.... Read More about Expression of NAD(P)H quinone dehydrogenase 1 (NQO1) is increased in the endometrium of women with endometrial cancer and women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

The detection of great crested newts year round via environmental DNA analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Rees, H. C., Baker, C. A., Gardner, D. S., Maddison, B. C., & Gough, K. C. (2017). The detection of great crested newts year round via environmental DNA analysis. BMC Research Notes, 10(1), Article 327. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2657-y

Objective Analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) is a method that has been used for the detection of various species within water bodies. The great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) has a short eDNA survey season (mid-April to June). Here we investi... Read More about The detection of great crested newts year round via environmental DNA analysis.

Hypophysitis, Panhypopituitarism, and Hypothalamitis in a Scottish Terrier Dog (2017)
Journal Article
Polledo, L., Oliveira, M., Adamany, J., Graham, P., & Baiker, K. (2017). Hypophysitis, Panhypopituitarism, and Hypothalamitis in a Scottish Terrier Dog. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 31(5), 1527-1532. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.14790

A 6-year old male neutered Scottish Terrier was referred with a 1 week history of progressive lethargy and anorexia. Neurological examination localized a lesion to the forebrain and hormonal testing showed panhypopituitarism. Magnetic resonance imagi... Read More about Hypophysitis, Panhypopituitarism, and Hypothalamitis in a Scottish Terrier Dog.

Serum levels of cytokines in water buffaloes experimentally infected with Fasciola gigantica (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, F., Guo, A., Hou, J., Sun, M., Sheng, Z., Zhang, X., …Zhu, X. (2017). Serum levels of cytokines in water buffaloes experimentally infected with Fasciola gigantica. Veterinary Parasitology, 244, 97-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2017.07.028

Fasciola gigantica infection in water buffaloes causes significant economic losses especially 27 in developing countries. Although modulation of the host immune response by cytokine 28 neutralization or vaccination is a promising approach to control... Read More about Serum levels of cytokines in water buffaloes experimentally infected with Fasciola gigantica.