Section Editors
- Wolfgang Baeumer, NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine
- Patrick Boerlin, University of Guelph
- Patrick Butaye, Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre
- Jose J Ceron, University of Murcia
- Javier Guitian, The Royal Veterinary College
- Manfred Kietzmann, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
- Peter Leegwater, Utrecht University
- Cheryl London, The Ohio State University
- Alun Williams, The Royal Veterinary College
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BMC Veterinary Research 2013, 9:31Differences in furious and paralytic rabies
Lower rabies virus (RV) antigen is found in paralytic rabies compared to furious in several CNS regions of dogs, but is associated with greater brainstem inflammation in paralytic rabies, which could retard RV propagation towards the cerebral hemispheres.
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BMC Veterinary Research 2013, 9:13Its a Dogslife for canine disease
Dogslife, a large internet-based platform, has been developed to recruit and monitor UK-based, pedigree Labrador Retrievers in order to identify environmental and genetic risk factors that could be linked to specific diseases in this breed.
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BMC Veterinary Research 2012, 8:202Coat markings link to CHSD in cattle dogs
Congenital hereditary sensorinerural deafness (CHSD) is a common disease in Australian Cattle dogs, being more prevalent in dogs without facial or body coat markings, suggesting that testing and breeding for greater pigmentation may reduce the prevalence of CHSD in this breed.
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BMC Veterinary Research 2012, 8:180Creating an equine athlete
Sebastian McBride and Daniel Mills review the physiological and psychological factors including behavioural modifications that can improve the ability of the performance horse, however, further research is still required to continue improvement of the equine athlete.
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BMC Veterinary Research 2012, 8:179Plasma protein changes in equine laminitis
Chronic equine laminitis is associated with specific changes in the plasma proteome, including an increase in apolipoprotein A-IV (APOA-IV) expression, which might be indicative of systematic alterations in immune regulation that are not restricted to the hoof.
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BMC Veterinary Research 2012, 8:158Small foramina linked to syringomyelia
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels suffering syringomyelia show abnormal narrowing of the jugular foramina, which may cause the cerebrospinal fluid pressure waves linked to this condition and explain the high prevalence of syringomyelia in this breed.
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Novel mutation in neurometabolic disorder
A mutation in the initiation codon of L2HGDH of a Yorkshire terrier with L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria (L-2-HGA) is likely to result in a non-functional gene and may be the cause of L-2-HGA in this breed.
BMC Veterinary Research 2012, 8:124Hot topic
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It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field.
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Section Editor's profile
Patrick Boerlin is currently associate Professor in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Dr Boerlin's research activities focus on the molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens of animals and of zoonotic agents. In recent years his research focus has been mainly on E. coli and Salmonella from animals, humans, and the environment, but also on some specific Gram-positive pathogens of animals such as Clostridium perfringens and Enterococcus cecorum. A particular emphasis in his laboratory's activities is on antimicrobial resistance and its transfer between bacteria of different origins and ecological compartments.
“Few veterinary journals are freely available to the animal health professions. This essentially limits first hand access to peer-reviewed scientific information in this field to the few who can enjoy costly institutional subscriptions. With its high impact factor in the field of veterinary science, its broad scope, and high quality standards, BMC Veterinary Research is well posed to help fill this gap, and to become a leading journal and important open source of information for people in animal health professions in general. It is also our hope, that, through its open access platform, BMC Veterinary Research can help make the specialized knowledge of veterinary research more widely available to the scientific community at large, thus anchoring it better in the global context of health and biological sciences in general.”
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