nutrigenomics applies genomic technologies to study how nutrients affect expression of genes. with the advent of the post genomic era and with the use of functional genomic tools, the new strategies for evaluating the effects of nutrition on production efficiency and nutrient utilization are becoming available. nutrigenomics plays an efficient role in various fields of animal health like nutrit...

13 Weaning management of newly received beef calves with or without continuous exposure to a persistently infected bovine viral diarrhea virus pen mate: Effects on rectal temperature, peripheral blood leukocytes and serum proinflammatory cytokine concentrations. J. T. Richeson*1, E. B. Kegley1, J. G. Powell1, R. G. Schaut2, R. E. Sacco3, and J. F. Ridpath3, 1University of Arkansas, Fayetteville...

Animal models are used to study the physiological mechanisms underlying disease progression. In this paper, I examine the benefits of using animal models to study how personality or stable individual differences (in behavior and physiology) influence disease susceptibility and resilience. Such an expansion of animal model use, to study the relationships among personality, physiology, and health...

Lyme disease is induced by the spirochete B. burgdorferi. Spirochetes are transmitted to dogs by infected ticks. Similar to humans, dogs are incidental, dead-end hosts for B. burgdorferi . Typical clinical signs in dogs are sporadic fever, acute arthritis, arthralgia, lameness, and glomerulopathy . Clinical signs of lameness often develop 25 months after infection. B. burgdorferi can persist fo...

Nanotechnology, although still in the early stages of its development, is beginning to equip scientists, engineers and biologists to work at the cellular and molecular levels for significant benefits in healthcare and animal medicine. It is reasonable to presume over the next couple of decades that nanobiotechnology industries and unique developments will be revolutionising animal health and me...

The potential areas of impact for biotechnology on the control of infectious diseases and improved animal health are manifold. They include the identification of susceptible stock, tests for the rapid and early diagnosis of disease, an understanding of the mechanisms of pathogenesis and the development of safe and effective vaccines or prophylactics. The principal methodologies which will enabl...

Introduction Animal health economics is a discipline, which does not belong to the core of veterinary science but is becoming more and more important as an aid to decision making on animal health interventions at various levels. The levels of decision making range from the individual animal to the national herd and finally to international disease control efforts. The growing importance of anim...