nephrolithiasis was incidentally diagnosed in 2 arabian horses, a young foal and an adult mare, from maybod, yazd province, iran. the foal had bilateral neophrolithiasis, as multiple sand like stones in renal papillary area. large nephroliths were found in the left kidney of mare. prominent composition of those nephroliths was magnesium ammonium phosphate. risk factors and other aspects of neph...

BACKGROUND Cerebellar abiotrophy (CA) is a rare but significant disease in Arabian horses caused by progressive death of the Purkinje cells resulting in cerebellar ataxia characterized by a typical head tremor, jerky head movements and lack of menace response. The specific role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to support clinical diagnosis has been discussed. However, as yet MR imaging has o...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the differences related to age ad gender in some blood parameters of Arabian horses bred in Turkey. In this study, 12 mares, 10 stallions, 90 foals (5 to 6 months old), and 35 yearlings were used. it was indicated that total erythrocyte count (RBC) and leukocyte count (WBC) was in normal ranges for mares and stallions while RBC and WBC values were...

Speed, heart rate, lactate and uric acid alterations led to reduced performance and hamper the health status of endurance horses. The aim of this study was to investigate on the effects of speed, heart rate, lactate and uric acid on the performance of Arabian horses during a 120 km endurance race. One hundred and eighty four Arabian endurance horses were physically examined and blood samples we...

Nephrolithiasis was incidentally diagnosed in 2 Arabian horses, a young foal and an adult mare, from Maybod, Yazd province, Iran. The foal had bilateral neophrolithiasis, as multiple sand like stones in renal papillary area. Large nephroliths were found in the left kidney of mare. Prominent composition of those nephroliths was magnesium ammonium phosphate. Risk factors and other aspects of neph...

giardia duodenalis is globally recognized as an important zoonotic intestinal protozoan parasite. so far, eight assemblages of g. duodenalis (a-h) have been identified. substantial evidence suggests the zoonotic potential of assemblages a, b, and e in livestock. in this study, the genotype of giardia duodenalis isolates was genetically identified by determining the sequence of ssu-rrna gene and...

contagious equine metritis (cem) is a venereal transmissible and non-systemic disease of horses caused by a gram negative, bacillus or cocco-bacillus and non-motile bacterium, taylorella equigenitalis which can lead a transient infertility in mares. identification of this bacterium is based on microaerophilic culture, but weakness of this bacterium in growth compared with secondary and symbioti...

Equine guttural pouch tympany (GPT) is a hereditary condition affecting foals in their first months of life. Complex segregation analyses in Arabian and German warmblood horses showed the involvement of a major gene as very likely. Genome-wide linkage and association analyses including a high density marker set of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were performed to map the genomic region h...

Genetic variation at 7 blood-group and 10 biochemical genetic loci was examined in 30 horses from a feral herd from the Namib Desert of Namibia, Africa. The observed genetic variability was extremely low compared with that found in domestic horse breeds. The low variation was most probably a result of recent small population size and a small founding population size. Genetic comparison of the N...

Introduction: The evaluation of musculoskeletal system in horse veterinary medicine is very important because of its effect on equine performance. The current study provided an ultrasonography description of the palmar tendons and ligaments of the metacarpus in pure Persian Arabian horses. Methods: The metacarpal regions of 10 healthy mare pure Persian Arabian horses were prepared for ultrason...