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  2. We present an overview of studies of anthropogenic pollutants in East Greenland polar bears over the period of 1999-2011. East Greenland polar bears are among the most polluted species, not just in the Arctic ...

    Authors: Christian Sonne, Robert J Letcher, Thea Ø Bechshøft, Frank F Rigét, Derek C G Muir, Pall S Leifsson, Erik W Born, Lars Hyldstrup, Niladri Basu, Maja Kirkegaard and Rune Dietz
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54(Suppl 1):S15
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  3. The aim of this study was to determine 17 Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxin and Dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) and 12 Dioxin-like Polychlorinated Biphenyl (DL-PCB) concentrations in the tissues of Finnish terrestrial herbi...

    Authors: Anniina Suutari, Anja Hallikainen, Päivi Ruokojärvi, Hannu Kiviranta, Mauri Nieminen and Sauli Laaksonen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54(Suppl 1):S11
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  4. For monitoring of endocrine disruptors and other contaminants in terms of exposure levels and possible effects on the reproductive system, suitable sentinel species have to be used. The wild mink is putatively...

    Authors: Sara Persson, Björn Brunström, Britt-Marie Bäcklin, Hans Kindahl and Ulf Magnusson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54(Suppl 1):S9
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  7. In 2010 contamination by dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs was detected in milk and meat in the valley Engidalur situated at the bottom of a fjord (Skutulsfjörður) in North West Iceland. The valley is narrow and su...

    Authors: Thorhallur I Halldorsson, Guðjón Atli Auðunsson, Rannveig Guicharnaud, Ólafur R Dýrmundsson, Sigurður Örn Hansson and Kjartan Hreinsson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54(Suppl 1):S4
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  8. Humans have always polluted their environment and, to an extent, the associated adverse consequences have increased in parallel with the global population. However, in recent decades, entirely novel compounds ...

    Authors: Stewart M Rhind
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54(Suppl 1):S2
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  9. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in animals is a rare finding in Sweden. In horses, MRSA was first detected in a screening survey in 2007. In 2008, six clinical cases occurred in an equine hospi...

    Authors: Karin Bergström, Anna Aspan, Annica Landén, Christopher Johnston and Ulrika Grönlund-Andersson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:11
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  11. Mycoplasma bovis is associated with pneumonia in calves characterized by the development of chronic caseonecrotic lesions with the agent persisting within the lesion. The purposes of this study were to characteri...

    Authors: Kathrin Hermeyer, Inka Buchenau, Anne Thomasmeyer, Berit Baum, Joachim Spergser, Renate Rosengarten and Marion Hewicker-Trautwein
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:9
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  13. The branched chain amino acid leucine is a potent stimulator of insulin secretion. Used in combination with glucose it can increase the insulin response and the post exercise re-synthesis of glycogen in man. D...

    Authors: Katarina EA Nostell, Birgitta Essén-Gustavsson and Johan T Bröjer
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:7
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  14. Ovine footrot is a contagious disease with worldwide occurrence in sheep. The main causative agent is the fastidious bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus. In Scandinavia, footrot was first diagnosed in Sweden in 2004 ...

    Authors: Sara Frosth, Jannice S Slettemeås, Hannah J Jørgensen, Øystein Angen and Anna Aspán
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:6
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  15. Overall reproductive performance of dairy herds is monitored by various indicators. Most of them do not consider all eligible animals and do not consider different management strategies at farm level. This pro...

    Authors: Emma Löf, Hans Gustafsson and Ulf Emanuelson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:5
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  16. The aim of this study was to detect the associations between bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) status of a herd and respiratory disease (BRD) occurrence and reproductive performance in pregnant heifers and cows. Th...

    Authors: Kerli Raaperi, Stephanie Bougeard, Annely Aleksejev, Toomas Orro and Arvo Viltrop
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:4
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  17. Haemostatic alterations are commonly detected in human and canine cancer patients. Previous studies have described haemostatic dysfunction in canine patients with haemangiosarcomas and carcinomas, and haemosta...

    Authors: Eva B Andreasen, Mikael Tranholm, Bo Wiinberg, Bo Markussen and Annemarie T Kristensen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:3
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  18. In Sweden, knowledge about the role of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in neonatal calf diarrhea and the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in E. coli from young calves is largely unknown. This has therapeu...

    Authors: Kerstin de Verdier, Ann Nyman, Christina Greko and Björn Bengtsson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:2
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  19. Proximal cytoplasmic droplets (PCDs), a remnant of germ cell cytoplasm, are common non-specific morphological defects in bovine semen. This study evaluated the effect of higher percentages of PCDs on the quali...

    Authors: Janaina T Carreira, Gisele Z Mingoti, Lucia H Rodrigues, Carlos Silva, Silvia HV Perri and Marion B Koivisto
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2012 54:1
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  20. The aim of this study was to provide a systematic pathological and parasitological overview of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), including the stomach, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, caecum and colon, of dogs natur...

    Authors: Aldair JW Pinto, Maria M Figueiredo, Fabiana L Silva, Trycia Martins, Marilene SM Michalick, Washington L Tafuri and Wagner L Tafuri
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:67
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  21. Understanding mercury (Hg) distribution in blood and the importance of hair as an excretory pathway is critical for evaluating risk from long term dietary Hg exposure. The major objective of this study was to ...

    Authors: Camilla L Lieske, Sara K Moses, Judith M Castellini, Jessica Klejka, Karsten Hueffer and Todd M O'Hara
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:66
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  22. Bovine viral diarrhea is a contagious disease of domestic and wild ruminants and one of the most economically important diseases in cattle. Bovine viral diarrhea virus belongs to the genus Pestivirus, within the ...

    Authors: Tomislav Bedeković, Nina Lemo, Ivana Lojkić, Ana Beck, Mirko Lojkić and Josip Madić
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:65
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  23. Coxiella burnetii is a well-known cause of placentitis and subsequent abortion in ruminants, but there are no reports on the relationship with perinatal mortality. The study was performed to determine the influen...

    Authors: Katrine T Nielsen, Søren S Nielsen, Jens F Agger, Anna-Bodil Christoffersen and Jørgen S Agerholm
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:64
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  24. The developmental profile of chicken carbonic anhydrase-III (CA-III) blood levels has not been previously determined or reported. We isolated CA-III from chicken muscle and investigated age-related changes in ...

    Authors: Toshiho Nishita, Yuichiro Tomita, Daisuke Yorifuji, Kensuke Orito, Hideharu Ochiai and Kazuyosi Arishima
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:63
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  25. The prevalence and nature of arrhythmias in horses following general anaesthesia and surgery is poorly documented. It has been proposed that horses undergoing emergency surgery for gastrointestinal disorders m...

    Authors: Ruth A Morgan, Alexandra G Raftery, Peter Cripps, Jonathan M Senior and Catherine M McGowan
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:62
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  26. Tularemia is a serious, potentially life threatening zoonotic disease. The causative agent, Francisella tularensis, is ubiquitous in the Northern hemisphere, including Alaska, where it was first isolated from a r...

    Authors: Cristina M Hansen, Amy J Vogler, Paul Keim, David M Wagner and Karsten Hueffer
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:61
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  28. Claw disorders cause problems in dairy cattle all over the world. Nutrition, feeding, environment, claw trimming routines, hormonal changes related to calving and genetics are among the factors which influence...

    Authors: Åse M Sogstad, Terje Fjeldaas and Olav Østerås
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:59
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  29. Oral rabies vaccination (ORV) in rabies infected regions should target the primary rabies vector species, which in Lithuania includes raccoon dogs as well as red foxes. Specific investigations on ORV in raccoo...

    Authors: Dainius Zienius, Gediminas Pridotkas, Raimundas Lelesius and Vilimas Sereika
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:58
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  30. In dogs, increasing the tissue n-3 fatty acid (FA) content is associated with potential benefit in some medical conditions, e.g. atopic dermatitis, cancer or heart disease. Therefore effectively and convenient...

    Authors: Katja Stoeckel, Leif Højvang Nielsen, Herbert Fuhrmann and Lisa Bachmann
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:57
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  31. Studies on transmission of Enterococcus faecalis among chickens during hatch have not been carried out so far. Information about vertical transmission and subsequent spreading and colonization of the cloacal muco...

    Authors: Mette E Fertner, Rikke H Olsen, Magne Bisgaard and Henrik Christensen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:56
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  32. A ten-year-old male standard dachshund was presented with a history of neck pain and progressive gait disturbances. Following a neurological examination and diagnostic imaging, including CT, a neoplastic lesio...

    Authors: Øyvind Stigen, Nina Ottesen, Hans Gamlem and Caroline P Åkesson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:55
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  33. Numerous signaling pathways function in the brain ventricular system, including the most important - GABAergic, glutaminergic and dopaminergic signaling. Purinergic signalization system - comprising nucleotide...

    Authors: Joanna Czarnecka, Katarzyna Roszek, Artur Jabłoński, Dariusz Jan Smoliński and Michał Komoszyński
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:54
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  34. Dairy cattle were used as sentinels for the presence of Leptospira infection in Swedish livestock in four regions contrasting in precipitation and temperature during the summer time. The aim of the study was to e...

    Authors: Elisabeth Lindahl, Sofia Boqvist, Karin Artursson and Ulf Magnusson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:53
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  35. A total of 318 Escherichia coli isolates obtained from different food-producing animals affected with colibacillosis between 2001 and 2006 were subjected to phylogenetic analysis: 72 bovine isolates, 89 poultry i...

    Authors: Tetsuo Asai, Kaori Masani, Chizuru Sato, Mototaka Hiki, Masaru Usui, Kotaro Baba, Manao Ozawa, Kazuki Harada, Hiroshi Aoki and Takuo Sawada
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:52
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  36. The Swedish salmonella control programme covers the entire production chain, from feed to food. All salmonella serotypes are notifiable. On average, less than 20 cases of salmonella in food-producing animals a...

    Authors: Susanna Sternberg Lewerin, Lars Skog, Jenny Frössling and Helene Wahlström
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:51
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  37. Previous studies have reported that the design of the water dispensers can influence the water intake in farm animals. Horses and dairy cows seem to prefer to drink from an open surface whereas sheep and pigs ...

    Authors: Knut E Bøe, Rebecca Ehrlenbruch and Inger L Andersen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:50
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  38. Exposure to cadmium (Cd) is considered a risk factor for various bone diseases in humans and experimental animals. This study investigated the acute effects of Cd on femoral bone structure of adult male rats a...

    Authors: Monika Martiniaková, Hana Chovancová, Radoslav Omelka, Birgit Grosskopf and Róbert Toman
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:49
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  39. Dairy cows are often fed high grain diets to meet the energy demand for high milk production or simply due to a lack of forages at times. As a result, ruminal acidosis, especially subacute ruminal acidosis (SA...

    Authors: Guozhong Dong, Shimin Liu, Yongxia Wu, Chunlong Lei, Jun Zhou and Sen Zhang
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:48
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  40. During surgery, controlled haemostasis to prevent blood loss is vital for a successful outcome. It can be difficult to ligate vessels located deep in the abdomen. A device that is easy to use and enables secur...

    Authors: Odd V Höglund, Ragnvi Hagman, Kerstin Olsson, Jonas Mindemark, Niklas Borg and Anne-Sofie Lagerstedt
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:47
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  41. This prospective experimental study evaluated the surgical procedure and results of modular hybrid total hip arthroplasty in dogs.

    Authors: Bruno W Minto, Cláudia Valéria S Brandão, Gilberto JC Pereira, Daniela Campagnol, Maria Jaqueline Mamprim, Carlos Roberto Padovani and José JT Ranzani
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:46
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  42. Treatment and protection of wounds in horses can be challenging; protecting bandages may be difficult to apply on the proximal extremities and the body. Unprotected wounds carry an increased risk of bacterial ...

    Authors: Tamás Tóth, Hans Broström, Viveca Båverud, Ulf Emanuelson, Elisabeth Bagge, Tommy Karlsson and Kerstin Bergvall
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:45
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  43. In Gram-negative bacteria, the most commonly studied quorum sensing signals are the N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs). In Salmonella, AHLs are recognized by SdiA, which is believed to be a sensor of AHLs produced ...

    Authors: Live L Nesse, Kristin Berg, Lene K Vestby, Ingrid Olsaker and Berit Djønne
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:44
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  44. Four dogs with acute neurological signs caused by haemorrhages in the central nervous system were diagnosed with Angiostrongylus vasorum infection as the underlying aetiology. Two dogs presented with brain lesion...

    Authors: Hanne Gredal, Jakob L Willesen, Henrik E Jensen, Ole L Nielsen, Annemarie T Kristensen, Jørgen Koch, Rikke K Kirk, Susanne E Pors, Geoff C Skerritt and Mette Berendt
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:43
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  46. Bovine babesiosis is regarded as a limited health problem for Norwegian cows, and the incidence has decreased markedly since the 1930s. Rare cases of babesiosis in splenectomised humans from infection with Babesi...

    Authors: Gunnar Hasle, Hans P Leinaas, Knut H Røed and Øivind Øines
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:41
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  47. Infection with bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1) causes a wide range of disease manifestations, including respiratory disease and abortion, with world-wide distribution. The primary objective of the present study w...

    Authors: DJ Bosco Cowley, Tracy A Clegg, Michael L Doherty and Simon J More
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53:40
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  48. WorldFengur is the database that contains and functions as the studbook of origin of the Icelandic horse. Only pure-bred Icelandic horses, whose ancestry can be traced back to Iceland entirely, may be register...

    Authors: Jón Baldur Lorange
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53(Suppl 1):S5
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  49. The objective of this paper is to give an overview of existing databases in Denmark and describe some of the most important of these in relation to establishment of the Danish Veterinary and Food Administratio...

    Authors: Annette Cleveland Nielsen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011 53(Suppl 1):S3
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