As many European countries are currently engaged in infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) control programmes, it is widely believed that an Irish IBR eradication scheme will be realised in the very near future. In fact, a growing movement across the EU to eradicate IBR could be a barrier to trade for Irish livestock as, under EU legislation, Member States who have compulsory disease eradicati...

Oral canine malignant melanoma is a spontaneous, locally aggressive, and highly metastatic tumour. A full clinical staging is required prior to plan a proper treatment, which will combine an aggressive local treatment with systemic therapy (chemotherapy or immunotherapy). This article aims at guiding the practitioners in the first steps of diagnosis and staging and also at providing data regard...

and laboratory findings in small companion animals with lead 6. Watson ADY: 1981, Lead poisoning in a cat. J Small Anim poisoning: 347 cases (1977-1986). Am Vet Med Assoc 199:93Pract 22:85-89. 97. 7. Zook BC, McCowell BS, Gilmore CE: 1970, Basophilic stippling 5. Scott HM: 1963, Lead poisoning in small animals. Vet Rec 75: of erythrocytes in dogs with special reference to lead poisoning. 830-83...

A ten-year-old beef suckler cow was referred to the Scottish Centre for Production Animal Health & Food Safety of the University of Glasgow, because of facial swelling in the region of the right maxilla. The facial swelling was first noticed three months earlier and was caused by a slow growing oral mass which contained displaced, loosely embedded teeth. The radiographic, laboratory and clinico...

Accumulated evidence from our laboratory indicates that conditioned or anergized NK cells have the ability to induce resistance of healthy stem cells and transformed cancer stem cells through both secreted factors and direct cell-cell contact by inducing differentiation. Cytotoxic function of NK cells is suppressed in the tumor microenvironment by a number of distinct effectors and their secret...

Veterinary Ireland Journal Volume 3 Number 6 EMBRYOLOGY, ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LENS The lens is formed in the developing embryo from surface ectoderm, as a section called the lens placode invaginates into the developing optic vesicle. Lens fibres start to continually grow from the equator, extending both anteriorly and posteriorly, and these fibres meet in Y-shaped suture lines (often t...

Individual differences in face recognition are often contrasted with differences in object recognition using a single object category. Likewise, individual differences in perceptual expertise for a given object domain have typically been measured relative to only a single category baseline. In Experiment 1, we present a new test of object recognition, the Vanderbilt Expertise Test (VET), which ...

Efficacy of Diarex-Vet (The Himalaya Drug Company, Makali, Bangalore, India) was evaluated histologically in semichronic diarrhoea induced by lactose enriched diet in rats. The rats in different groups were given lactose enriched diet alone for 2 days before starting the treatment with Diarex-Vet at a dose of 250, 500 and 750 mg/kg body weight along with lactose enriched diet for 5 days. Animal...

BACKGROUND The Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program is one of the largest initiatives to end Veteran homelessness. However, mental health and substance use disorders continue to reduce client stability and impede program success. HUD-VASH programs do not consistently employ evidence-based practices that address co-occurring mental health and subst...