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  1. Convincing evidence exist that carnitine synthesis and uptake of carnitine into cells is regulated by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARA), a transcription factor which is physiologically activ...

    Authors: Susann Rosenbaum, Robert Ringseis, Erika Most, Sonja Hillen, Sabrina Becker, Georg Erhardt, Gerald Reiner and Klaus Eder
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:24
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  2. This study was conducted to evaluate the faecal occurrence and characterization of Clostridium difficile in clinically healthy dogs (N = 50) and in dogs with diarrhea (N = 20) in the Stockholm-Uppsala region of S...

    Authors: Karl-Johan Wetterwik, Gunilla Trowald-Wigh, Lise-Lotte Fernström and Karel Krovacek
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:23
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  3. Soundness is important for welfare and utility of the riding horse. Musculoskeletal disorders are the most common causes of interruption in training and of culling. Despite great importance, heritability of a ...

    Authors: Lina Jönsson, Anna Näsholm, Lars Roepstorff, Agneta Egenvall, Göran Dalin and Jan Philipsson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:22
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  4. Doxycyline (Dox) is a semisynthetic antibacterial drug with pharmacological advantages over its parent drug (tetracycline) in the treatment of various bacterial diseases in horses. Yet, at present a horse-cust...

    Authors: Heidi Zozaya, Lilia Gutierrez, Maria Josefa Bernad and Hector Sumano
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:21
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  5. Good quality spermatozoa are important to achieve fertilization, viable embryos and offspring. Single Layer Centrifugation (SLC) through a colloid (Androcoll-P) selects good quality spermatozoa. However, it ha...

    Authors: Ylva Cecilia Björnsdotter Sjunnesson, Jane Margaret Morrell and Raquel González
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:20
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  6. Latent equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) infection is common in horse populations worldwide and estimated to reach a prevalence nearing 90% in some areas. The virus causes acute outbreaks of disease that are c...

    Authors: Jasmin Walter, Christoph Seeh, Kerstin Fey, Ulrich Bleul and Nikolaus Osterrieder
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:19
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  7. In pigs, enteric infections and the development of gut disorders such as diarrhoea are commonly observed, particularly after weaning. The present study investigated the hypothesis that feeding a grape seed and...

    Authors: Denise K Gessner, Anja Fiesel, Erika Most, Jennifer Dinges, Gaiping Wen, Robert Ringseis and Klaus Eder
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:18
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  8. During epididymal transit, functional and structural modifications leading to full maturation enable male gametes to reach, recognize and fertilize the oocytes. In dogs, little is known on the modifications of...

    Authors: Sara Varesi, Valentina Vernocchi, Massimo Faustini and Gaia Cecilia Luvoni
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:17
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  9. The effect of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) on semen quality was examined in a group of 11 spontaneously infected boars in a commercial boar stud. Semen samples were collected 4 w...

    Authors: Martin Schulze, Sandra Revilla-Fernández, Friedrich Schmoll, Rudolf Grossfeld and Alfred Griessler
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:16
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  10. Despite the important role of goats for meat and milk production in Ethiopia, little information is available on the epidemiology of caprine tuberculosis (TB). Caprine TB is important as milk is usually consum...

    Authors: Benti Deresa, Franz J Conraths and Gobena Ameni
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:15
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  11. A 5-½-month-old female Holstein-Friesian calf was presented with a history of recurring ruminal tympany and poor development. The absence of lung sounds on the right hemithorax suggested a right-sided intratho...

    Authors: Beat Berchtold, Mireille Meylan, Karine Gendron, Ute Morath, Ulrich Rytz and Beatrice Lejeune
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:14
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  13. Shoulder ulcers can have a significant impact on the welfare of sows. In Denmark, rubber mats are used for treatment of shoulder ulcers. The objective of the study was to compare a treatment consisting of a co...

    Authors: Marianne Kaiser, Charlotte S Kristensen, Poul Bækbo and Lis Alban
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:12
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  14. Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) gene is considered as a promising candidate for the identification of polymorphisms affecting cattle performance. The objectives of the current study were to determine the ass...

    Authors: Paula Nicolini, Mariana Carriquiry and Ana Meikle
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:11
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  16. The provision of feed is a major cost in beef production. Therefore, the improvement of feed efficiency is warranted. The direct assessment of feed efficiency has limitations and alternatives are needed. Small...

    Authors: Yuri Montanholi, Ananda Fontoura, Kendall Swanson, Brenda Coomber, Shigeto Yamashiro and Stephen Miller
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:9
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  17. The role of selenium (Se) on bone microarchitecture is still poorly understood. The present study aims to investigate the macroscopic and microscopic structures of femoral bone tissue in adult male rats after ...

    Authors: Monika Martiniaková, Ivana Boboňová, Radoslav Omelka, Birgit Grosskopf, Robert Stawarz and Róbert Toman
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:8
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  18. Chronic cardiac insufficiency was associated with a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in a cow. An eight-year-old cow developed a progressive condition (over a period of three months) characterized by an...

    Authors: Saulo Petinatti Pavarini, Danilo Carloto Gomes, Marcele Bettim Bandinelli, Flademir Wouters, Luciana Sonne, David Driemeier and Cláudio Estêvão Farias da Cruz
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:7
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  19. Hitherto, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has not been detected in Swedish cattle. However, due to the report of mecC, a novel homologue to the mecA gene, there was reason to re-evaluate suscep...

    Authors: Helle Ericsson Unnerstad, Björn Bengtsson, Margareta Horn af Rantzien and Stefan Börjesson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:6
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  20. The Swedish Salmonella control program has been running for decades and has resulted in a low prevalence of Salmonella in Swedish food producing animals. Routine bacteriology is used to detect Salmonella, however...

    Authors: Ann-Kristin J Nyman, Estelle CC Ågren, Karin Bergström and Helene Wahlström
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:5
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  21. Dichelobacter nodosus is the causative agent of footrot in sheep. The survival of the bacterium in soil is of importance for the epidemiology of the disease. The investigation evaluates the survival of D. nodosus

    Authors: Sara Ellinor Cederlöf, Tomas Hansen, Ilka Christine Klaas and Øystein Angen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:4
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  22. The already high and increasing occurrence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli in European broiler populations is of concern due to the fact that third and fourth generation cep...

    Authors: Stefan Börjesson, Björn Bengtsson, Cecilia Jernberg and Stina Englund
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:3
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  23. Brucella is a group of bacteria that causes brucellosis, which can affect population health and reproductive success in many marine mammals. We investigated the serological prevalence of antibodies against Brucel...

    Authors: Karsten Hueffer, Scott M Gende and Todd M O’Hara
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:2
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  25. Evaluation of physiology during capture and anesthesia of free-ranging wildlife is useful for determining the effect that capture methods have on both ecological research results and animal welfare. This study...

    Authors: Alina L Evans, Åsa Fahlman, Göran Ericsson, Henning Andreas Haga and Jon M Arnemo
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:77
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  27. Toxoplasma gondii is a major problem for the sheep industry as it may cause reproduction problems. The importance of T. gondii in Norwegian goat herds is uncertain, but outbreaks of toxoplasmosis in dairy goat fa...

    Authors: Marit Stormoen, Jorun Tharaldsen and Petter Hopp
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:75
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  29. The diaphragm is the major respiratory muscle affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and is responsible for causing 80% of deaths. The use of mechanical forces that act on the body or intermittent press...

    Authors: Thais Borges Lessa, Rafael Cardoso Carvalho, André Luis Rezende Franciolli, Lilian Jesus de Oliveira, RodrigoSilvadaNunes Barreto, David Feder, Fabiana Fernandes Bressan, Maria Angélica Miglino and Carlos Eduardo Ambrósio
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:73
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  30. Variability among stallions in terms of semen cryopreservation quality renders it difficult to arrive at a standardized cryopreservation method. Different extenders and processing techniques (such us colloidal...

    Authors: Luna Gutiérrez-Cepeda, Álvaro Fernández, Francisco Crespo, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, Jaime Gosálvez and Consuelo Serres
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:72
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  31. The four Nordic countries: Denmark (DK), Finland (FIN), Norway (NO) and Sweden (SE), all have national databases in which mainly records of treated animals are maintained. Recently, the completeness of locomot...

    Authors: Ann-Kristina Lind, Hans Houe, Mari N Espetvedt, Cecilia Wolff, Simo Rintakoski and Peter T Thomsen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:71
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  32. Hemorrhagic pneumonia is a disease of farmed mink (Neovison vison) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The disease is highly seasonal in Danish mink with outbreaks occurring almost exclusively in the autumn. Human ...

    Authors: Charlotte M Salomonsen, SolvejØ Breum, Lars E Larsen, Jeanette Jakobsen, Niels Høiby and Anne S Hammer
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:70
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  33. The blaZ gene encoding penicillin resistance can be located either chromosomally or on plasmids. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic relationships and to determine the location of the blaZ gene i...

    Authors: Arzu Funda Bagcigil, Suvi Taponen, Joanna Koort, Björn Bengtsson, Anna-Liisa Myllyniemi and Satu Pyörälä
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:69
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  34. Dairy goats are commonly housed at a space allowance of 0.7 – 0.8 m2/goat in commercial Norwegian goat herds, which is very low compared to regulations and recommendations in other European countries. One easy an...

    Authors: Knut Egil Bøe, Rebecca Ehrlenbruch and Inger Lise Andersen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:68
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  35. Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) associated with PCV2 is one of the most costly diseases currently faced by the swine industry. The development of effective vaccines against PCV2 infection ha...

    Authors: Kun Yang, Wentao Li, Huihui Niu, Weidong Yan, Xiaoli Liu, Yang Wang, Shuang Cheng, Xugang Ku and Qigai He
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:67
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  37. Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common causes of intramammary infections in dairy cows at dry off. Reliable identification is important for disease management on herd level and for antimicrobial treatmen...

    Authors: Sara Ellinor Cederlöf, Nils Toft, Bent Aalbaek and Ilka Christine Klaas
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:65
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  38. Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli bacteria (ExPEC) exist as commensals in the human intestines and can infect extraintestinal sites and cause septicemia. The transfer of ExPEC from poultry to humans and...

    Authors: Ulrike Lyhs, Ilona Ikonen, Tarja Pohjanvirta, Kaisa Raninen, Päivikki Perko-Mäkelä and Sinikka Pelkonen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:64
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  39. Both the G3P[12] and the G14P[12] type of equine group A rotavirus (RVA) have recently become predominant in many countries, including Japan. G3 types are classified further into G3A and G3B. The G3A viruses h...

    Authors: Manabu Nemoto, Hiroshi Tsunemitsu, Harutaka Murase, Yasuo Nambo, Shinsuke Sato, Yasuhiro Orita, Hiroshi Imagawa, Hiroshi Bannai, Koji Tsujimura, Takashi Yamanaka, Tomio Matsumura and Takashi Kondo
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:63
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  40. In Denmark, it has recently become mandatory for all dairy farmers with more than 100 cows to sign up for a herd health programme. Three herd health programmes are available. These differ in a number of aspect...

    Authors: Ann-Kristina Lind, Peter T Thomsen, Simo Rintakoski, Mari N Espetvedt, Cecilia Wolff and Hans Houe
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:62
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  42. Pampas deer, Ozotoceros bezoarticus (Linnaeus 1758), is a South American grazing deer categorized as "near threatened". However, knowledge about pampas deer behavior including courtship and mating is scarce and i...

    Authors: Jéssica T Morales-Piñeyrúa and Rodolfo Ungerfeld
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:60
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  43. It has recently been shown that the lactation-induced inflammatory state in the liver of dairy cows is accompanied by activation of the nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) pathway, which regulates the ex...

    Authors: Susann Rosenbaum, Robert Ringseis, Sonja Hillen, Sabrina Becker, Georg Erhardt, Gerald Reiner and Klaus Eder
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:59
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  44. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between average daily gain and the number of Lawsonia intracellularis bacteria in faeces of growing pigs with different levels of diarrhoea.

    Authors: Ken Steen Pedersen, Rikke Skrubel, Helle Stege, Øystein Angen, Marie Ståhl, Charlotte Hjulsager, Lars Erik Larsen and Jens Peter Nielsen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:58
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  45. A standardbred gelding with a history of 10 days pyrexia and lethargy was referred to the Equine Hospital at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden.

    Authors: Helena Back, Anna Kendall, Rodrigo Grandón, Karin Ullman, Louise Treiberg-Berndtsson, Karl Ståhl and John Pringle
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:57
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  46. Hybridization between closely related wild and domestic species is of great concern because it can alter the evolutionary integrity of the affected populations. The high allelic variability of Major Histocompa...

    Authors: Samer Alasaad, Joerns Fickel, Luca Rossi, Mathieu Sarasa, Buenaventura BenÃ-tez-Camacho, José E Granados and Ramón C Soriguer
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:56
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  47. Ketoprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug which has been widely used for domestic animals. Orally administered racemic ketoprofen has been reported to be absorbed well in pigs, and bioavailability w...

    Authors: Katja Mustonen, Anneli Niemi, Marja Raekallio, Mari Heinonen, Olli AT Peltoniemi, Mari Palviainen, Mia Siven, Marikki Peltoniemi and Outi Vainio
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:55
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  48. The anaerobic spirochetes Brachyspira hyodysenteriae and Brachyspira pilosicoli cause diarrheal diseases in pigs. Their fastidious nature has hampered standardization of methods for antimicrobial susceptibility t...

    Authors: Märit Pringle, Annica Landén, Helle Ericsson Unnerstad, Benedicta Molander and Björn Bengtsson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:54
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  50. Seminomas in the dog have traditionally been assumed to resemble human spermatocytic seminomas, based on their low malignancy and high occurrence in old individuals. However, recently published studies indicat...

    Authors: Tor Espen Thorvaldsen, Ane Nødtvedt, Tom Grotmol and Gjermund Gunnes
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:52
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