osteochondrosis/phosphatase

Copper (Cu) supplementation of dams in late gestation may be protective against articular cartilage abnormalities in foals. Articular cartilage was harvested from 22 Thoroughbred foals at 160 days of age, at sites predisposed to osteochondrosis (OC), and examined for evidence of early cartilage

The material in the present study considered of 42 pigs. The pigs received different amounts of Ca and P in the feed. Observations were made on the blood serum Ca, P, AP, HP, and 25-OH-D3 levels, the ash content of the Mc III, and on the clinical behaviour of the pigs. The pigs were divided into 6

Polychrome-stained equine synovial fluid specimens from 34 normal joints and 129 joints with clinical abnormalities were examined cytologically. The smears from joints with abnormalities were categorized as within normal limits (4.7%), slight abnormality (27.9%), proliferative synovitis (21.7%),

BACKGROUND The Icelandic horse is a pristine breed of horse which has a pure gene pool established more than a thousand years ago, and is approximately the same size as living and extinct wild breeds of horses. This study was performed to compare the length of the skeletal growth period of the

Development of a healthy musculoskeletal system is of high concern for horse breeders and users. A longitudinal field study was performed in order to: (i) evaluate growth patterns and long-term changes on bone quality, bone metabolism, growth factors and metabolic variables in the Lusitano horse;

The characteristics of the activity of alkaline phosphatase, nonspecific esterase, myeloperoxidase, lysosomal cation proteins, lipids have been determined in the cytochemical study of neutrophils in peripheral blood samples of 127 patients with acute, chronic, primary chronic brucellosis and

The influence of 0, 50, 500 or 5,000 ppm supplemental Zn on productive characteristics, weight change, and serum and organ mineral concentrations of 60 crossbred and purebred Yorkshire gilts was evaluated. Gilts were fed their respective treatment from 30 kg body weight until the completion of two

Osteochondrosis (OC) is a disturbance in the process of endochondral ossification, a process in which cartilage is mineralised and transformed into bone. In this process different biochemical events occur, of which the cartilage component has been studied so far almost exclusively. In this study we