Browsing by Department "Veterinary Pathobiology"
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(2021-07-26)Contemporary approaches for developing new interventions and for pre-clinical risk evaluation include assessments for cardiovascular structure and function, frequently performed in a variety of animal and in vitro models, ...
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(2019-04-10)Through three distinct papers, this dissertation aims to increase understanding of cardiomyopathy in golden retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD), an important model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Unlike the mdx ...
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(2018-01-17)Staphylococcus spp. are important causes of skin and systemic infections in people, dogs, and horses. In dogs, S. pseudintermedius is the most common cause of pyoderma. Staphylococcus aureus exfoliative toxin (ET) genes ...
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(2015-02-12)Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is the most common microorganism isolated from canine pyoderma and opportunistic infections. Prevalence of methicillin-resistant S. pseudintermedius (MRSP) has increased and multi-drug ...
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(2016-12-05)Chronic kidney disease (CKD) results in significant morbidity and mortality in dogs, and urine protein loss is common in dogs with CKD. Currently available noninvasive biomarkers for evaluating CKD in dogs cannot accurately ...
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(2015-11-02)Controlling metastatic and invasive tumors is the challenging part of treating cancer. The overall aim of this dissertation was to target these aggressive cells, called tumor-initiating cells (TICs). They exploit embryonic ...
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(2010-01-14)Rift Valley Fever Virus is a plebovirus that causes epidemics and epizootics in sub-Saharan African countries but has expanded to Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula. The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is susceptible to ...
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(2017-05-10)Lack of safe and effective adjuvants is a major hindrance to the development of efficacious vaccines. Signaling via CD40 pathway leads to enhanced antigen processing and presentation, nitric oxide expression, pro-inflammatory ...
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The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis is a medically important tick species that transmits six of the fifteen human tick-borne disease agents in the United States. Without successful feeding, ticks cannot cause damage ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Six different isoforms of Type IV collagen (colIVα1-6) have been identified. The individual isoforms of colIV are termed alpha chains and are translated from six different COLIV genes (COLIVA1-A6). Collagen Type IV gene ...
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(2012-10-19)Non-invasive markers that are clinically useful for the diagnosis and monitoring of canine chronic enteropathies are scarce. The first aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cobalamin deficiency on a cellular ...
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(2012-10-19)Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) refers to a group of inherited retinal dystrophies resulting from progressive photoreceptor degeneration and accumulation of intra-retinal pigment-like deposits. X-linked forms of RP are frequently ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Mouse Hepatitis virus (MHV) is a member of the coronavirus family in the order Nidovirales. The 32 kb genome contains cis-acting sequences necessary for replication of the viral genome. Those cis-acting sequences have ...
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(2012-10-19)Cathelicidins (CATHLs) are small, cationic antimicrobial peptides that establish an early innate immune defense against infections in mammals. Beyond their wide spectrum of antimicrobial activity, these peptides play ...
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(2018-12-03)The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a gene expressed in epithelial cells and is involved in a variety of diseases, including preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, embryonic lethality, diabetes, cardiac ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The present study was carried out to examine the chemopreventive effects of curcumin and green tea polyphenols on the hamster cheek pouch carcinogenesis model. This model of oral carcinogenesis has been widely used in ...
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(2009-05-15)Equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) is a macrophage-tropic retrovirus that causes persistent disease in horses and ponies. In addition to its structural proteins, EIAV encodes four regulatory/accessory genes, tat, rev, ...
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Coccidian Parasites and Conservation Implications for the Endangered Whooping Crane (Grus americana) (PLOS, 2015-10-10)While the population of endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) has grown from 15 individuals in 1941 to an estimated 304 birds today, the population growth is not sufficient to support a down-listing of the species ...
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(2023-08-11)Anthrax, Bacillus anthracis, is an endospore-forming zoonotic bacterium naturally existing in calcium rich soils around the world, including Texas, USA. The disease is severely underreported; outbreaks cause thousands of ...
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(2012-02-14)A study was undertaken to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of three anthelmintics, ivermectin, fenbendazole, and a combination of ivermectin and pyrantel pamoate, on fecal egg count reductions of cyathostomes and ...