For horses, distinct differences in intestinal phosphate transport have been postulated to account for the unique features of hind gut fermentation compared to other monogastric animals and ruminants. So far published data on mechanisms and underlying transport proteins involved in intestinal ...

The present study was conducted on skin of adult cattle, buffalo, dog, pig, goat and horse (six sample of each), collected from the abattoir and postmortem hall. The study revealed that there were no comparable differences observed in activity of alkaline phosphatase (AKPase), glucose-6-phosphatase ...

Background: Nebulisation of the injectable dexamethasone sodium phosphate (DSP) would offer an inexpensive way of delivering a potent corticosteroid directly to the lungs of horses with asthma. However, this approach would be advantageous only if systemic absorption is minimal and if the...

Objective: To quantify the time to clear dexamethasone from plasma and urine of horses following a single nebulisation. Design: Experimental using six Standardbred mares. Methods: Dexamethasone sodium phosphate (0.04 mg/kg) diluted in 0.9% sodium chloride was administered as an aerosol using a...

Background: Inhaled corticosteroids are effective in the treatment of equine asthma. A recent study reported that nebulisation of injectable dexamethasone had low systemic bioavailability in healthy horses and could represent a cost-effective therapy for equine inflammatory lung diseases....

Electrostatic interactions between phosphate anions and Toll-like receptor 4/Myeloid differentiation factor-2 (TLR4/MD-2) protein complexes of human, murine, equine and canine species were computed. Such knowledge can provide mechanistic information about recognizing LPS-like ligands, since anionic ...

While the use of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to induce inflammation has been well described in the horse, the object of this study was to evaluate the effect of repeated intra-articular LPS injections and determine whether this method may be of use to assess changes in gene expression related to...

Limited data are available on infection rates and genetic identity of Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Giardia duodenalis in horses and donkeys. In this study, 865 fecal specimens were collected from donkeys (n = 540) and horses (n = 325) in three provinces and autonomous regions in northern China...

Background: Cardiac arrhythmias are relatively common in horses, but ventricular tachycardia is infrequent, therefore limited information is available about its therapy in the Hungarian literature. Objectives: To present three cases of ventricular tachycardia treated successfully with orally...

A kathiyawari colt aged three years was presented with the anamnesis of inappetance, swelling of nasal bridge bone and shifting lameness. The urinary fractional clearance of phosphorus was highly elevated (40.2%), While the haematological and serum biochemistry revealed no disturbance in Ca and P...