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Animal Health encompasses a broad range of topics focused on maintaining and improving the well-being of equine species. This field addresses various aspects of horse care, including disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of health conditions. Key areas of interest include equine nutrition, vaccination protocols, parasite control, dental care, and the management of chronic conditions such as laminitis and colic. Additionally, animal health research in horses investigates the impact of exercise and training on physical health, the role of genetics in disease susceptibility, and the development of new therapeutic approaches. This page compiles peer-reviewed research studies and scholarly articles that explore the latest advancements, challenges, and best practices in preserving and enhancing the health of horses.
The influence of exercise on serum enzyme levels in the horse. A group of clinically normal horses was subjected to controlled strenuous exercise. Elevated serum concentrations of lactic dehydrogenase, aldolase and creatine kinase were observed after exercise but no significant change in serum glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase was noted. These changes were reduced by repeated exposure to exercise suggesting that measurement of serum enzyme elevations, particularly creatine kinase, might be a useful index of fitness in the horse. Administration of prednisolone prior to exercise also reduced these changes. Since the serum enzyme concentrations had returned t...
The kinetics of hematopoiesis in the light horse III. The hematological response to hemolytic anemia. The hematological response to acetylphenylhydrazine hemolytic anemia was studied in three standardbred horses. The lifespan of erythrocytes produced during the most severe phase of the anemia were measured with 75-selenomethionine and found to be 144 days as compared to the 139 day lifespan in response to hemorrhagic anemia or 155 days in normal standardbred horses measured previously using the same technique. The erythrocyte counts returned to initial values in 42 days (37, 34 and 54 days) a mean erythrocyte production of 6.4 times 10-12 erythrocytes/day. The mean hemoglobin production was 0....
A scanning electron microscopic study of platelets of certain animal species. Comparative morphology of platelets of the dog, cat, cow, horse, sheep, and goat was studied with the scanning electron microscope and was found generally similar. Most of the platelets were slightly biconvex of flat with relatively smooth surface and even contour. Some of these platelets had few short marginal filaments, oriny protuberances on the surface. A small number of platelets exhibited surface irregularity and few long pseudopods which were thought to result from platelet activation during the processing of blood. The number os such irregular platelets increased in stored blood and in...
Inhibition of horse muscle acylphosphatase by pyridoxal 5′-phosphate. It has been shown that horse muscle acylphosphatase is inhibited by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and that the inhibition is pH dependent, reversible and competitive with respect to substrate binding. Spectral analysis on the EI complex demonstrates the presence of a Schiff base. Reduction of the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-inhibited enzyme with sodium borohydride, followed by amino acid analysis, produces a diminution of the free lysine peak and the appearance of a new peak corresponding to epsilon-pyridoxyllysine. The results suggest that there is at least one NH2-lysyl residue of horse muscle acylphosp...
[False-positive results obtained on examining slaughtered animals for the presence of antibiotic residues (author’s transl)]. As part of the examination of emergency-slaughtered animals for the presence of antibiotic residues, studies were done to see whether false-positive results would be obtained when the Sarcina lutea kidney test and Bacillus subtilis BGA test were performed. When the S. lutea kidney test was positive in cattle, calves and swine, penicillin was invariably found to be present in those animals, the histories of which showed that they had not been given antibiotics. A syringe and an injected fluid containing penicillin residues are regarded as possible causes of these positive results. When the S. l...
Heat stability and reactivation of mare milk lysozyme. Mare milk and aqueous solution of mare milk lysozyme were incubated for variable times between 30 C and 100 C at pH 3, 6, or 9. Lysozyme activity was stable at acid and neutral pH and labile at alkaline pH. Some of the results show the existence of a reactivation process in mare's milk and in aqueous solution. reaching 30 to 40% after incubation of the aqueous solution at 4 C for 20 days at pH 3 or 6.
Morphology of epididymal spermatozoa in the ass (Equus asinus) and stallion (Equus caballus). The morphological changes which take place in the sperm during their passage
through the excurrent ducts have been studied in the bull (BRANTON and SALISBURY
1947; HANCOCK 1955; BAILY and SMITH 1958; AMANN and ALMQUIST 1962; GUSTAFSSON and CRABO 1971 ; RAO 1971) and boar (GUSTAFSSON, CRABO and EINARSSON 1970).
Such knowledge is of major importance in understanding the origin and significance
of the different sperm abnormalties as well as providing the basis for proper appraisal
of semen picture and devising useful spermiograms.
The aim of the present work is to study the morphological ch...
[Prevention of tetanus in man and animal following injury]. The effect of heterologous and homologous antitoxin is the same if an equal amount of antitoxin is present in the organism. In man there are no circulating antibodies in the blood after the first injection of the toxoid because there is no natural immunity against the tetanus antigen. After the second injection, man develops the same immunity as animals. Large antitoxin doses protect people for a longer period than small doses. Normally 3,000 I. U. of the heterologous antitoxin protects people for 2 to 3 weeks. In man and sheep 2 ml of the adsorbed vaccine produces an earlier and longer-lastin...
Comparison of the myoglobin of the zebra (Equus burchelli) with that of the horse (Equus caballus). The tryptic and peptic peptides from the myoglobin of the zebra (Equus burchelli) have been compared with those obtained from the myoglobin of the horse (Equus caballus). No differences in the myoglobin were found between these two species.
Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin: an accidental poisoning episode in horse arenas. Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin was identified as the apparent cause of an outbreak of poisoning in humans, horses, and other animals. Exposure was related to the spraying of contaminated waste oil on riding arenas for dust control. The contamination resulted from improper disposal of a toxic industrial waste. The pathologic effects and chemical identification of tetrachlorodibenzodioxin are described.
Bile secretion in ponies with biliary fistuals. Surgically placed bile duct cannulas allowed collection of secreted bile from nonanesthetized ponies. UNINTERRUPTED ENTEROPHEPATIC CIRCULATION WAS PERMITTED BETWEEN COLLECTIONS. Deleterious effects of cannulation were not observed. Average bile flow was 18.6 plus or minus 1.72 (standard error) mul/minute/kg, bile acid excretion was 0.179 plus or minus 0.0212 mumole/minute/kg, and bilirubin excretion averaged 1.22 plus or minus 0.136 mug/minute/kg.
