Muscle tissue is constantly undergoing both protein synthesis and protein breakdown, in both health and disease states. The balance between synthesis and breakdown processes determines whether...
Domestic felines require specific dietary components in comparison to domestic canines. Felines are obligate carnivores; a term which defines their inability to synthesise vitamin A, arachidonic acid...
Nutrition is described as the processes of food utilisation by a plant or animal (Merriam-Webster, 2020). The terms macro and micronutrients refer to the volume of each that is required....
Admitting a mare for treatment at an equine hospital when she has a foal at foot is not comparable to admitting an adult horse with a companion. The foal, even though it is not the primary patient,...
NO and NG tubes provide short-term enteral nutritional support, generally for up to 5 to 10 days, and are suitable for use in patients for whom sedation or general anaesthesia is contraindicated...
In CPV enteritis, infection with parvovirus is acquired by the faecal-oral route of transmission (Goddard and Leisewitz, 2010). By the third to fifth day viraemia is marked, with CPV preferentially...
Appetite can be adversely affected when circumstances interfere with the initiation of food intake (for example in the case of facial trauma or dental disease), or act to promote negative stimuli...