Lavender Foal Syndrome (LFS) is a lethal inherited disease of horses with a suspected autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. LFS has been primarily diagnosed in a subgroup of the Arabian breed, the Egyptian Arabian horse. The condition is characterized by multiple neurological abnormalities and a dilute coat color. Candidate genes based on comparative phenotypes in mice and humans include the...

Lactation is the most energy demanding part of parental care in mammals, so parent-offspring conflict arises over milk provided by the mother. In some species females commonly become pregnant shortly after parturition of previous young. This further intensifies mother-offspring conflict due to concurrent pregnancy and lactation. In equids it has been well established that pregnant females wean ...

Horses are raised to become sound athletes, and therefore optimal growth is preferred to maximal growth, which may be required in other livestock production systems. in horses, optimal growth rate results in a desirable body size at a specific age with the least amount of developmental problems. While the genetic makeup, or genotype, ultimately determines a horse’s mature size, nutrition plays ...

BACKGROUND Reports of the use of brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) as a diagnostic modality in foals have been limited. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES To describe BAER findings and associated causes of hearing loss in foals. ANIMALS Study group 18 foals (15 neonatal, 3 nonneonatal), control group (5 neonatal foals). METHODS Retrospective. BAER records from the Clinical Neurophysiology Labo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of various flow rates of oxygen administered via 1 or 2 nasal cannulae on the fraction of inspired oxygen concentration (FIO2) and other arterial blood gas variables in healthy neonatal foals. ANIMALS 9 healthy neonatal (3- to 4-day-old) foals. PROCEDURES In each foal, a nasal cannula was introduced into each naris and passed into the nasopharynx to the lev...

Flight and avoidance reactions from human were examined using 168 postweaning Thoroughbred foals in 22 breeding farms. Further 114 yearlings of 168 foals were tested in the following summer. The foal handlings by the stabler were asked in questionnaire. The relationship between the behavioural reactions and the foal handling frequencies was analyzed. The flight reaction was estimated as the dis...

Las preñeces gemelares son gestaciones de alto riesgo, tanto para la yegua como ambos fetos. Hoy en día existen diferentes técnicas evitar el avance este tipo eventos, sus inicios avanzadas. Aun así, múltiples casos dobles que presentan resultados ya evidenciados. En caso se reportó una raza polo argentino ocho años, llegó al Centro Perinatología Equina Foal Care por presentar gestación gemelar...

Background: A variable resolution X-ray (VRX) CT scanner provides a great increase in the spatial resolution. In VRX CT scanners, the spatial resolution of the system and its field of view (FOV) can be changed according to the object size. One of the main factors that limit the spatial resolution of VRX CT scanner is the effect of the X-ray focal spot. Materials and Methods: A theoreti...

A rank 3 tensor product network has 3 dimensions of size p, q, and r, say. Its processing units include pqr Networks Using Distributed binding units, and input/output units grouped into 3 Representations vectors of length p, q and r. Typically one of the I/O vectors represents a predicate, and the other two represent William H. Wilson a pair of arguments. The information represented in the Comp...

The prevalence of virulent Rhodococcus equi in soil isolates from two horse farms in South Africa and nine clinical isolates from six foals, a foal foetus, a dog, and a monkey was investigated. The isolates were tested for the presence of virulence plasmid DNA and 15- to 17-kDa antigens by immunoblotting. Rhodococcus equi was isolated from almost all of the soil samples obtained from the two fa...