The horse evolved primarily as a grazing and browsing, hindgut fermenting herbivore, with a range of hydrolyzable and fermentable forage carbohydrates as its main source of energy. Pastures provide the primary habitat and nutrition for most horses, and the remaining stall-confined horses have approximately one-half of their nutrition supplied by conserved pasture, i.e., hay. Pasture composition...

Suspensory ligament injuries are a common injury in sport horses, especially in competing dressage horses. Because of the poor healing of chronic recalcitrant tendon injuries, this represents a major problem in the rehabilitation of sport horses and often compromises the return to the initial performance level. Stem cells are considered as a novel treatment for different pathologies in horses a...

The seven cases presented here were diagnosed at the Equine Clinic, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic between the years 2002 and 2008. The age range of affected horses was from 10 months to 10 years and included four Thoroughbreds and three warm blooded horses. The horses showed different clinical signs – recurrent or acute colic, poor appetite, frequent...

the aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii in mares and stallionsin the province of ankara. sera from 168 clinically healthy horses were tested for the presence oftoxoplasma gondii antibodies using the sabin feldman dye test. toxoplasma gondii infection wasdetermined in 62 (36.9%) of 168 horses with the titers ranging from 1:16 to 1:256.

BACKGROUND Lyme borreliosis is a disease transmitted by ticks to mammals, especially in horses and humans. Caused by a spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, it can result in lameness, arthritis, carditis, dermatitis and neurological signs. Anaphylactoid reactions are severe responses caused by direct action of substances (drugs, toxins), which can pose risks to life. Still poorly documented in horse...

The present study was carried out from November 2008 to March 2009 in and around Hawassa town to identify and determine the prevalence of helminth species and its associated risk factors in Horses. For this purpose, a total of 190 fecal samples were collected randomly from naturally infected horses for examination of the presence of helminth parasites. The overall prevalence of different types ...

The aim of this study was to determine the relative abundance and relationship of vitamin D responsive and calcium transporting transcripts (TRPV5, TRPV6, calD9k, calD28k, PMCA, NCX1, CYP27B1, CYP24A1, and VDR) in ovine, canine and, equine kidney using quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR), and then perform a comparison between the three species. Renal tissue samples were harvested post-mortem f...

Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis is a progressive neurologic disease of horses most commonly caused by infection with the apicomplexan parasite Sarcocystis neurona. Factors affecting neuroinvasion and neurovirulence have not been determined. We investigated the pathogenesis of infection with S. neurona in horses with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID). Two immunocompetent (IC) Arabian h...

Background: Visual assessment of equine lameness is an everyday veterinary task suffering from poor diagnostic accuracy. The aim this study was to quantify the impact perceptual learning game ‘LamenessTrainer’ on skill development. Methods: Thirty-six undergraduate students engaged in four modules teaching fore- and hindlimb lameness. Computer animations horses displayed 0% (sound) 70% (moderat...

the objective of the present study was to determine polymorphism within the promoter region of somatotropin receptor genes in indigenous sistani cattle (bos indicus) and associations between this polymorphism and breeding value of birth weight. the pedigree structure was included by considering 1173 animals with 600 progeny birth weight data obtained from a zhark breeding station in sistan and ...