home Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Recent CVM Publications (August update)

Recent CVM Publications (August update)

2 August 2017

Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database in the last 30 days.

A note on the links: the doi link will take you directly to the publisher’s web page. The PMID link will take you into PubMed; the PMCID link into PubMed Central. Full-text availability will depend on your institution’s subscriptions.

PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2017

Congratulations to all the recently published authors!

Journal Articles

Wang T, Gao YY, Chen L, Nie ZW, Cheng W, Liu X, Schatten H, Zhang X, Miao YL. Melatonin prevents postovulatory oocyte aging and promotes subsequent embryonic development in the pig. Aging. 2017;9(6):1552-64. doi: 10.18632/aging.101252. PubMed PMID: 28657543. Open Access article

Hanft LM, Emter CA, McDonald KS. Cardiac myofibrillar contractile properties during the progression from hypertension to decompensated heart failure. American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2017;313(1):H103-H13. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00069.2017. PubMed PMID: 28455288.

Levit A, Regis AM, Garabon JR, Oh SH, Desai SJ, Rajakumar N, Hachinski V, Agca Y, Agca C, Whitehead SN, Allman BL. Behavioural inflexibility in a comorbid rat model of striatal ischemic injury and mutant hAPP overexpression. Behavioural Brain Research. 2017;333:267-75. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.07.006. PubMed PMID: 28693862.

Brown CR, Dennis EA. Borrelia burgdorferi infection induces lipid mediator production during Lyme arthritis. Biochimie. 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.biochi.2017.06.010. PubMed PMID: 28630010.

Liang Y, Goyette S, Hyder SM. Cholesterol biosynthesis inhibitor RO 48-8071 reduces progesterone receptor expression and inhibits progestin-dependent stem cell-like cell growth in hormone-dependent human breast cancer cells. Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy. 2017;9:487-94. Epub 2017/07/27. doi: 10.2147/BCTT.S140265. PubMed PMID: 28744156; PMCID: PMC5511027. Open Access article

Grzelak AK, Davis DJ, Caraker SM, Crim MJ, Spitsbergen JM, Wiedmeyer CE. Stress leukogram induced by acute and chronic stress in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Comparative Medicine. 2017;67(3):263-9. PubMed PMID: 28349861; PMCID:PMC5482518 [Available on 2017-12-01].

Roberts MD, Ruegsegger GN, Brown JD, Booth FW. Mechanisms Associated with Physical Activity Behavior: Insights from Rodent Experiments. Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews. 2017. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000124. PubMed PMID: 28704221.

Souto PCMC, Jager AV, Tonin FG, Petta T, Di Gregório MC, Cossalter AM, Pinton P, Oswald IP, Rottinghaus GE, Oliveira CAF. Determination of fumonisin B1 levels in body fluids and hair from piglets fed fumonisin B1-contaminated diets. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 2017;108(Pt A):1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2017.07.036. PubMed PMID: 28733235.

Vientós-Plotts AI, Ericsson AC, Rindt H, Reinero CR. Oral probiotics alter healthy feline respiratory microbiota. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2017;8(JUL):1287. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01287. PubMed PMID: 28744273; PMCID: PMC5504723. Open Access article

McGuire AR, Maitz CA, Lattimer JC, Flesner BK. What is your diagnosis? Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 2017;251(3):273-5. doi: 10.2460/javma.251.3.273. PubMed PMID: 28703666.

Ota-Kuroki J, Kuroki K. Limbal xanthogranuloma in a dog. Journal of Veterinary Medical Science. 2017;79(7):1240-4. doi: 10.1292/jvms.17-0251. PubMed PMID: 28626159. Open Access article

Grobman M, Boothe DM, Rindt H, Williamson BG, Katz ML, Coates JR, Reinero CR. Pharmacokinetics and dynamics of mycophenolate mofetil after single-dose oral administration in juvenile dachshunds. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2017. doi: 10.1111/jvp.12420. PubMed PMID: 28649788.

Javurek AB, Spollen WG, Johnson SA, Bivens NJ, Bromert KH, Givan SA, Rosenfeld CS. Consumption of a high-fat diet alters the seminal fluid and gut microbiomes in male mice. Reproduction, Fertility and Development. 2017;29(8):1602-12. doi: 10.1071/RD16119. PubMed PMID: 27569192.

Marlo TL, Giuliano EA, Tripathi R, Sharma A, Mohan RR. Altering equine corneal fibroblast differentiation through Smad gene transfer. Veterinary Ophthalmology. 2017. doi: 10.1111/vop.12485. PubMed PMID: 28685927.

Olson RM, Anderson DM. Usurping bacterial virulence factors as self-delivery vehicles for therapeutic use. Virulence. 2017:1-3. doi: 10.1080/21505594.2017.1336595. PubMed PMID: 28636422.

 

Published Abstracts

Kannan R, Boote E, Khan P, Cutler C, Jurisson S, Katti K, Chanda N, Shukla R, Axiak S, Lattimer J, Henry C, Zambre A, Katti K. SU‐GG‐J‐122: Therapeutic Efficacy of 198Au Nanoparticles Using a Canine Model of Prostate Cancer. Medical Physics. 2010;37(6):3173. doi: 10.1118/1.3468346.

Kulkarni R, Lattimer J, Boote E, Kannan R, Katti K. SU‐E‐T‐384: Dosimetry Studies for Radioactive Gold Nanoparticles. Medical Physics. 2011;38(6):3576. doi: 10.1118/1.3612338.

 

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home Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Recent CVM Publications (July update)

Recent CVM Publications (July update)

5 July 2017

Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database in the last 30 days.

A note on the links: the doi link will take you directly to the publisher’s web page. The PMID link will take you into PubMed; the PMCID link into PubMed Central. Full-text availability will depend on your institution’s subscriptions.

PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2017

Congratulations to all the recently published authors!

Journal Articles

Coldren KM, Li DP, Kline DD, Hasser EM, Heesch CM. Acute hypoxia activates neuroendocrine, but not presympathetic, neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus: Differential role of nitric oxide. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 2017;312(6):R982-R95. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00543.2016. PubMed PMID: 28404583.

Jang S, Lewis TS, Powers C, Khuchua Z, Baines CP, Wipf P, Javadov S. Elucidating Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain Supercomplexes in the Heart during Ischemia-Reperfusion. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 2017;27(1):57-69. doi: 10.1089/ars.2016.6635. PubMed PMID: 27604998.

Goyette S, Liang Y, Mafuvadze B, Cook MT, Munir M, Hyder SM. Natural and synthetic progestins enrich cancer stem cell-like cells in hormone-responsive human breast cancer cell populations in vitro. Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy. 2017;9:347-57. doi: 10.2147/BCTT.S135371. PubMed PMID: 28579829; PMCID: PMC5446973. Open Access article

Marković M, Daković A, Rottinghaus GE, Petković A, Kragović M, Krajišnik D, Milić J. Ochratoxin A and zearalenone adsorption by the natural zeolite treated with benzalkonium chloride. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 2017;529:7-17. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.05.054.

Fernandez-Trapero M, Espejo-Porras F, Rodriguez-Cueto C, Coates JR, Perez-Diaz C, De Lago E, Fernandez-Ruiz J. Upregulation of CB2 receptors in reactive astrocytes in canine degenerative myelopathy, a disease model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms. 2017;10(5):551-8. doi: 10.1242/dmm.028373. PubMed PMID: 28069688; PMCID: PMC5451172. Open Access article

Thangavel R, Kempuraj D, Zaheer S, Raikwar S, Ahmed ME, Selvakumar GP, Iyer SS, Zaheer A. Glia maturation factor and mitochondrial uncoupling proteins 2 and 4 expression in the temporal cortex of Alzheimer’s disease brain. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 2017;9(MAY):150. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00150. PubMed PMID: 28572767; PMCID: PMC5435744. Open Access article

Ruegsegger GN, Booth FW. Running from disease: Molecular mechanisms associating dopamine and leptin signaling in the brain with physical inactivity, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 2017;8(MAY):109. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00109. PubMed PMID: 28588553; PMCID: PMC5440472. Open Access article

Hart ML, Ericsson AC, Franklin CL. Differing complex microbiota alter disease severity of the IL-10-/- mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2017;8(MAY):792. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00792. PubMed PMID: 28553262; PMCID: PMC5425584. Open Access article

Clemensen AK, Rottinghaus GE, Lee ST, Provenza FD, Villalba JJ. How planting configuration influences plant secondary metabolites and total N in tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.), alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.): Implications for grazing management. Grass and Forage Science. 2017. doi: 10.1111/gfs.12298.

Johnson MC, Dela Libera Tres M, Thomas AL, Rottinghaus GE, Greenlief CM. Discriminant Analyses of the Polyphenol Content of American Elderberry Juice from Multiple Environments Provide Genotype Fingerprint. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2017;65(20):4044-50. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.6b05675. PubMed PMID: 28475841.

Adkins PRF, Middleton JR, Calcutt MJ, Stewart GC, Fox LK. Species identification and strain typing of Staphylococcus agnetis and Staphylococcus hyicus isolates from bovine milk by use of a novel multiplex PCR assay and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2017;55(6):1778-88. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02239-16. PubMed PMID: 28330895; PMCID: PMC5442534 [Available 2017-12-01].

Bernhard C, Masseau I, Dodam J, Outi H, Krumme S, Bishop K, Graham A, Reinero C. Effects of positive end-expiratory pressure and 30% inspired oxygen on pulmonary mechanics and atelectasis in cats undergoing non-bronchoscopic bronchoalveolar lavage. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery. 2017;19(6):665-71. doi: 10.1177/1098612X16651471. PubMed PMID: 27250742.

Rietz A, Li H, Quist KM, Cherry JJ, Lorson CL, Burnett BG, Kern NL, Calder AN, Fritsche M, Lusic H, Boaler PJ, Choi S, Xing X, Glicksman MA, Cuny GD, Androphy EJ, Hodgetts KJ. Discovery of a Small Molecule Probe That Post-Translationally Stabilizes the Survival Motor Neuron Protein for the Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2017;60(11):4594-610. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01885. PubMed PMID: 28481536.

Wright EC, Johnson SA, Hao R, Kowalczyk AS, Greenberg GD, Ordoñes Sanchez E, Laman-Maharg A, Trainor BC, Rosenfeld CS. Exposure to extrinsic stressors, social defeat or bisphenol A, eliminates sex differences in DNA methyltransferase expression in the amygdala. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 2017;29(6). doi: 10.1111/jne.12475. PubMed PMID: 28406523.

Nichols NL, Satriotomo I, Allen LL, Grebe AM, Mitchell GS. Mechanisms of enhanced phrenic long-term facilitation in SOD1G93a rats. Journal of Neuroscience. 2017;37(24):5834-45. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3680-16.2017. PubMed PMID: 28500219; PMCID: PMC5473203 [Available 2017-12-14].

Young LR, Backus RC. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 and 24R,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 concentrations in adult dogs are more substantially increased by oral supplementation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 than by vitamin D3. Journal of Nutritional Science. 2017;6. doi: 10.1017/jns.2017.8. Open Access article

Kline DD. Tuning excitability of the hypothalamus via glutamate and potassium channel coupling. Journal of Physiology. 2017. doi: 10.1113/JP274446. PubMed PMID: 28548235.

Quick JA, Kudav V, Doty J, Crane M, Bukoski AD, Bennett BJ, Barnes SL. Surgical resident technical skill self-evaluation: increased precision with training progression. Journal of Surgical Research. 2017;218:144-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2017.05.070. PubMed PMID:28985841.

Burton EN, Cohn LA, Reinero CN, Rindt H, Moore SG, Ericsson AC. Characterization of the urinary microbiome in healthy dogs. PLoS ONE. 2017;12(5):e0177783. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177783. PubMed PMID: 28545071; PMCID: PMC5435306. Open Access article

Javurek AB, Suresh D, Spollen WG, Hart ML, Hansen SA, Ellersieck MR, Bivens NJ, Givan SA, Upendran A, Kannan R, Rosenfeld CS. Gut dysbiosis and neurobehavioral alterations in rats exposed to silver nanoparticles. Scientific Reports. 2017;7(1):2822. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-02880-0. PubMed PMID: 28588204; PMCID: PMC5460200. Open Access article

Bishop BE, Thomas JM, Abel JM, Poock SE, Ellersieck MR, Smith MF, Patterson DJ. Split-time artificial insemination in beef cattle: III. Comparing fixed-time artificial insemination to split-time artificial insemination with delayed administration of GnRH in postpartum cows. Theriogenology. 2017;99:48-52. doi: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2017.04.046. PubMed PMID: 28708499.

 

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home Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Recent CVM Publications (June update)

Recent CVM Publications (June update)

1 June 2017

Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database in the last 30 days.

A note on the links: the doi link will take you directly to the publisher’s web page. The PMID link will take you into PubMed; the PMCID link into PubMed Central. Full-text availability will depend on your institution’s subscriptions.

PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2017

Congratulations to all the recently published authors!

Journal Articles

Ostrowski TD, Dantzler HA, Polo-Parada L, Kline DD. H2O2 augments cytosolic calcium in nucleus tractus solitarii neurons via multiple voltage-gated calcium channels. American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology. 2017;312(5):C651-C62. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00195.2016. PubMed PMID: 28274920.

Anandalakshmi V, Murugan E, Leng EGT, Ting LW, Chaurasia SS, Yamazaki T, Nagashima T, George BL, Peh GSL, Pervushin K, Lakshminarayanan R, Mehta JS. Effect of position-specific single-point mutations and biophysical characterization of amyloidogenic peptide fragments identified from lattice corneal dystrophy patients. Biochemical Journal. 2017;474(10):1705-25. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20170125. PubMed PMID: 28381645.

Dong S, Behura SK, Franz AWE. The midgut transcriptome of Aedes aegypti fed with saline or protein meals containing chikungunya virus reveals genes potentially involved in viral midgut escape. BMC Genomics. 2017;18(1):382. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-3775-6. PubMed PMID: 28506207; PMCID: PMC5433025. Open Access Article

Aroor AR, Habibi J, Kandikattu HK, Garro-Kacher M, Barron B, Chen D, Hayden MR, Whaley-Connell A, Bender SB, Klein T, Padilla J, Sowers JR, Chandrasekar B, DeMarco VG. Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibition with linagliptin reduces western diet-induced myocardial TRAF3IP2 expression, inflammation and fibrosis in female mice. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 2017;16(1):61. doi: 10.1186/s12933-017-0544-4. PubMed PMID: 28476142; PMCID: PMC5420102. Open Access Article

Khairallah MT, Astroski J, Custer SK, Androphy EJ, Franklin CL, Lorson CL. SMN deficiency negatively impacts red pulp macrophages and spleen development in mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy. Human Molecular Genetics. 2017;26(5):932-41. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddx008. PubMed PMID: 28062667.

Reimschuessel R, Grabenstein M, Guag J, Nemser SM, Song K, Qiu J, Clothier KA, Byrne BA, Marks SL, Cadmus K, Pabilonia K, Sanchez S, Rajeev S, Ensley S, Frana TS, Jergens AE, Chappell KH, Thakur S, Byrum B, Cui J, Zhang Y, Erdman MM, Rankin SC, Daly R, Das S, Ruesch L, Lawhon SD, Zhang S, Baszler T, Diaz-Campos D, Hartmann F, Okwumabua O. Multilaboratory survey to evaluate Salmonella prevalence in diarrheic and nondiarrheic dogs and cats in the United States between 2012 and 2014. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2017;55(5):1350-68. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02137-16. PubMed PMID: 28202802; PMCID: PMC5405253. Open Access Article

Moore SG, Ericsson AC, Poock SE, Melendez P, Lucy MC. Hot topic: 16S rRNA gene sequencing reveals the microbiome of the virgin and pregnant bovine uterus. Journal of Dairy Science. 2017;100(6):4953-60. doi: 10.3168/jds.2017-12592. PubMed PMID: 28434745.

Vandenberg LN, Blumberg B, Antoniou MN, Benbrook CM, Carroll L, Colborn T, Everett LG, Hansen M, Landrigan PJ, Lanphear BP, Mesnage R, vom Saal FS, Welshons WV, Myers JP. Is it time to reassess current safety standards for glyphosate-based herbicides? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2017;71(6):613-8. doi: 10.1136/jech-2016-208463. PubMed PMID: 28320775. Open Access Article

Katz ML, Jensen CA, Student JT, Johnson GC, Coates JR. Cervical spinal cord and motor unit pathology in a canine model of SOD1-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2017;378:193-203. Epub 15 Jul. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.05.009.

Mauler DA, De Decker S, De Risio L, Volk HA, Dennis R, Gielen I, Van der Vekens E, Goethals K, Van Ham L. Spinal Arachnoid Diverticula: Outcome in 96 Medically or Surgically Treated Dogs. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2017;31(3):849-53. doi: 10.1111/jvim.14714. PubMed PMID: 28426173; PMCID: PMC5435043. Open Access Article

Li S, Lan H, Men H, Wu Y, Li N, Capecchi MR, Bryda EC, Wu S. Derivation of transgene-free rat induced pluripotent stem cells approximating the quality of embryonic stem cells. Stem Cells Translational Medicine. 2017;6(2):340-51. doi: 10.5966/sctm.2015-0390. PubMed PMID: 28191784. Open Access Article

Hoffman DA, Piech TL, Taylor HL, Royal AB. What is your diagnosis? Pancreatic aspirate from a cat. Veterinary Clinical Pathology. 2017. doi: 10.1111/vcp.12501. PubMed PMID: 28510262.

Maitz CA, Robinson KL. Use of an electronic brachytherapy surface applicator to treat an epiglottal fibrosarcoma in a dog. Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound. 2017. doi: 10.1111/vru.12503. PubMed PMID: 28436129.

 

Books & Book Chapters

Congratulations to Drs. Schatten and Constantinescu on their recently published edited book, Animal Models and Human Reproduction! See especially the chapters written by them:

  • Anatomy of the Reproductive System (Dr. C)
  • Anatomy of Mammalian (Endocrine) Glands Controlling the Reproduction (Dr. C)
  • Alterations of the Epigenome Induced by the Environment in Reproduction (Drs. Ge, Yin, and Schatten)

 

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CVM Publications: Catching Up!

4 May 2017

We recently started doing a monthly announcement on new CVM publications. See the inaugural installment. Because it seemed strange to start with items published in April, we’re doing one longer “catch up” announcement to highlight CVM faculty research going back to January. Congratulations to all the 2017 authors!

Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database from January to March 2017.

A note on the links: the doi link will take you directly to the publisher’s web page. The PMID link will take you into PubMed; the PMCID link into PubMed Central. Full-text availability will depend on your institution’s subscriptions.

PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2017

Journal Articles

Gustafson NA, Gandolfi B, Lyons LA. Not another type of potato: MC1R and the russet coloration of Burmese cats. Animal Genetics. 2017;48(1):116-20. doi: 10.1111/age.12505. PubMed PMID: 27671997.

Kumar SR, Bryan JN, Esebua M, Amos-Landgraf J, May TJ. Testis specific Y-like 5: Gene expression, methylation and implications for drug sensitivity in prostate carcinoma. BMC Cancer. 2017;17(1):158. doi: 10.1186/s12885-017-3134-7. PubMed PMID: 28235398; PMCID: PMC5326500. Open Access Article

Yang M, Zhang C, Zhang MZ, Zhang S. Novel synthetic analogues of avian β-defensin-12: The role of charge, hydrophobicity, and disulfide bridges in biological functions. BMC Microbiology. 2017;17(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s12866-017-0959-9. PubMed PMID: 28231771; PMCID: PMC5324278. Open Access Article

Marković M, Daković A, Rottinghaus GE, Kragović M, Petković A, Krajišnik D, Milić J, Mercurio M, de Gennaro B. Adsorption of the mycotoxin zearalenone by clinoptilolite and phillipsite zeolites treated with cetylpyridinium surfactant. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. 2017;151:324-32. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2016.12.033. PubMed PMID: 28040664.

Clemensen AK, Provenza FD, Lee ST, Gardner DR, Rottinghaus GE, Villalba JJ. Plant secondary metabolites in alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil, reed canarygrass, and tall fescue unaffected by two different nitrogen sources. Crop Science. 2017;57(2):964-70. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2016.08.0680.

Zhang T, Zhou Y, Li L, Wang ZB, Shen W, Schatten H, Sun QY. CenpH regulates meiotic G2/M transition by modulating the APC/CCdh1-cyclin B1 pathway in oocytes. Development (Cambridge). 2017;144(2):305-12. doi: 10.1242/dev.141135. PubMed PMID: 27993978.

Booth FW, Ruegsegger GN. A Fatty Liver Is Neither Appetizing Nor Healthy. Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews. 2017;45(1):6. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000090. PubMed PMID: 27603437.

Michelin EC, Massocco MM, Godoy SHS, Baldin JC, Yasui GS, Lima CG, Rottinghaus GE, Sousa RLM, Fernandes AM. Carryover of aflatoxins from feed to lambari fish (Astyanax altiparanae) tissues. Food Additives and Contaminants – Part A Chemistry, Analysis, Control, Exposure and Risk Assessment. 2017;34(2):265-72. doi: 10.1080/19440049.2016.1266097. PubMed PMID: 27967601.

Ericsson AC, Personett AR, Turner G, Dorfmeyer RA, Franklin CL. Variable colonization after reciprocal fecal microbiota transfer between mice with low and high richness microbiota. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2017;8(FEB):196. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00196. PubMed PMID: 28280484; PMCID: PMC5322181. Open Access Article

Katz ML, Johnson GC, Leach SB, Williamson BG, Coates JR, Whiting REH, Vansteenkiste DP, Whitney MS. Extraneuronal pathology in a canine model of CLN2 neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis after intracerebroventricular gene therapy that delays neurological disease progression. Gene Therapy. 2017;24(4):215-23. doi: 10.1038/gt.2017.4. PubMed PMID: 28079862.

Lacey CA, Mitchell WJ, Brown CR, Skyberg JA. Temporal role for MyD88 in a model of Brucella-induced arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation. Infection and Immunity. 2017;85(3). doi: 10.1128/IAI.00961-16. PubMed PMID: 28069819.

Han F, Lu A, Yuan Y, Huang W, Beerntsen BT, Huang J, Ling E. Characterization of an entomopathogenic fungi target integument protein, Bombyx mori single domain von Willebrand factor type C, in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Molecular Biology. 2017;26(3):308-16. doi: 10.1111/imb.12293. PubMed PMID: 28168773.

Kantor AM, Dong S, Held NL, Ishimwe E, Passarelli AL, Clem RJ, Franz AWE. Identification and initial characterization of matrix metalloproteinases in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology. 2017;26(1):113-26. doi: 10.1111/imb.12275. PubMed PMID: 28054419.

Marín MP, Meléndez PG, Aranda P, Ríos C. Conjugated linoleic acid content and fatty acids profile of milk from grazing dairy cows in southern Chile fed varying amounts of concentrate. Journal of Applied Animal Research. 2017:1-5. doi: 10.1080/09712119.2016.1277729.

Olver TD, Hiemstra JA, Edwards JC, Ferguson BS, Laughlin MH, Emter CA. The protective role of sex hormones in females and exercise prehabilitation in males on sternotomy-induced cranial hypoperfusion in aortic banded miniswine. Journal of Applied Physiology. 2017;122(3):423-9. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00817.2016. PubMed PMID: 27909230.

Erikson JM, Valente AJ, Mummidi S, Kandikattu HK, Demarco VG, Bender SB, Fay WP, Siebenlist U, Chandrasekar B. Targeting TRAF3IP2 by genetic and interventional approaches inhibits ischemia/reperfusion-induced myocardial injury and adverse remodeling. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2017;292(6):2345-58. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.764522. PubMed PMID: 28053087.

Johnson SA, Painter MS, Javurek AB, Murphy CR, Howald EC, Khan ZZ, Conard CM, Gant KL, Ellersieck MR, Hoffmann F, Schenk AK, Rosenfeld CS. Characterization of vocalizations emitted in isolation by california mouse (peromyscus californicus) pups throughout the postnatal period. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2017;131(1):30-9. doi: 10.1037/com0000057. PubMed PMID: 28182483.

Johnson SA, Javurek AB, Painter MS, Murphy CR, Conard CM, Gant KL, Howald EC, Ellersieck MR, Wiedmeyer CE, Vieira-Potter VJ, Rosenfeld CS. Effects of a maternal high-fat diet on offspring behavioral and metabolic parameters in a rodent model. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2017;8(1):75-88. doi: 10.1017/S2040174416000490. PubMed PMID: 27609493.

Rosenfeld CS. Homage to the ‘H’ in developmental origins of health and disease. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2017;8(1):8-29. doi: 10.1017/S2040174416000465. PubMed PMID: 27577791.

Zhang Y, Olson RM, Brown CR. Macrophage LTB4 drives efficient phagocytosis of Borrelia burgdorferi via BLT1 or BLT2. Journal of Lipid Research. 2017;58(3):494-503. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M068882. PubMed PMID: 28053185.

Agosto-Marlin IM, Nichols NL, Mitchell GS. Adenosine-dependent phrenic motor facilitation is inflammation resistant. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2017;117(2):836-45. doi: 10.1152/jn.00619.2016. PubMed PMID: 27927784.

Rosenfeld CS. Sex-dependent differences in voluntary physical activity. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 2017;95(1-2):279-90. doi: 10.1002/jnr.23896. PubMed PMID: 27870424.

Ruegsegger GN, Toedebusch RG, Childs TE, Grigsby KB, Booth FW. Loss of Cdk5 function in the nucleus accumbens decreases wheel running and may mediate age-related declines in voluntary physical activity. Journal of Physiology. 2017;595(1):363-84. doi: 10.1113/JP272489. PubMed PMID: 27461471.

Jhanji V, Chan TCY, Li WY, Lim RR, Yu MCY, Law K, Yi P, Yip YWY, Wang Y, Ng TK, Chaurasia SS, Mohan RR. Conventional versus inverted side-cut flaps for femtosecond laser-assisted LASIK: Laboratory and clinical evaluation. Journal of Refractive Surgery. 2017;33(2):96-103. doi: 10.3928/1081597X-20161102-02. PubMed PMID: 28192588.

Birks R, Fine DM, Leach SB, Clay SE, Eason BD, Britt LG, Lamb KE. Breed-specific vertebral heart scale for the dachshund. Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association. 2017;53(2):73-9. doi: 10.5326/JAAHA-MS-6474. PubMed PMID: 28282234.

Harmon MW, Leach SB, Lamb KE. Dilated cardiomyopathy in standard schnauzers: Retrospective study of 15 cases. Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association. 2017;53(1):38-44. doi: 10.5326/JAAHA-MS-6506. PubMed PMID: 27841675.

Whelchel DD, Tennent-Brown BS, Coleman AE, Rapoport GS, Blas-Machado U, Maisenbacher HW, Credille BC, Giguère S. Treatment of supraventricular tachycardia in a horse. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. 2017. doi: 10.1111/vec.12591. PubMed PMID: 28267896.

Harris RA, Grobman ME, Allen MJ, Schachtel J, Rawson NE, Bennett B, Ledyayev J, Hopewell B, Coates JR, Reinero CR, Lever TE. Standardization of a Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study Protocol to Investigate Dysphagia in Dogs. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2017;31(2):383-93. doi: 10.1111/jvim.14676. PubMed PMID: 28240398; PMCID: PMC5354069. Open Access Article

Kolicheski A, Barnes Heller HL, Arnold S, Schnabel RD, Taylor JF, Knox CA, Mhlanga-Mutangadura T, O’Brien DP, Johnson GS, Dreyfus J, Katz ML. Homozygous PPT1 Splice Donor Mutation in a Cane Corso Dog With Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2017;31(1):149-57. doi: 10.1111/jvim.14632. PubMed PMID: 28008682; PMCID: PMC5259623. Open Access Article

Mauler DA, Gandolfi B, Reinero CR, O’Brien DP, Spooner JL, Lyons LA, and 99 Lives C. Precision Medicine in Cats: Novel Niemann-Pick Type C1 Diagnosed by Whole-Genome Sequencing. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2017;31(2):539-44. doi: 10.1111/jvim.14599. PubMed PMID: 28233346; PMCID: PMC5354023. Open Access Article

Packer RA, Logan MA, Guo LT, Apte SS, Bader H, O’Brien DP, Johnson G, Shelton GD. Clinical Phenotype of Musladin-Lueke Syndrome in 2 Beagles. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2017;31(2):532-8. doi: 10.1111/jvim.14654. PubMed PMID: 28158899; PMCID: PMC5354057. Open Access Article

Toedebusch CM, Bachrach MD, Garcia VB, Johnson GC, Katz ML, Shaw G, Coates JR, Garcia ML. Cerebrospinal Fluid Levels of Phosphorylated Neurofilament Heavy as a Diagnostic Marker of Canine Degenerative Myelopathy. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2017;31(2):513-20. doi: 10.1111/jvim.14659. PubMed PMID: 28186658; PMCID: PMC5354061. Open Access Article

Aberdein D, Munday JS, Gandolfi B, Dittmer KE, Malik R, Garrick DJ, Lyons LA, 99 Lives Consortium. A FAS-ligand variant associated with autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome in cats. Mammalian Genome. 2017;28(1-2):47-55. doi: 10.1007/s00335-016-9668-1. PubMed PMID: 27770190.

Park YM, Padilla J, Kanaley JA, Zidon TM, Welly RJ, Britton SL, Koch LG, Thyfault JP, Booth FW, Vieira-Potter VJ. Voluntary Running Attenuates Metabolic Dysfunction in Ovariectomized Low-Fit Rats. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 2017;49(2):254-64. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001101. PubMed PMID: 27669449.

Bostick B, Aroor AR, Habibi J, Durante W, Ma L, DeMarco VG, Garro M, Hayden MR, Booth FW, Sowers JR. Daily exercise prevents diastolic dysfunction and oxidative stress in a female mouse model of western diet induced obesity by maintaining cardiac heme oxygenase-1 levels. Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental. 2017;66:14-22. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2016.09.005. PubMed PMID: 27923445.

Olson RM, Anderson DM. Fractionation techniques to examine effector translocation. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2017;1531:101-9. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6649-3_9. PubMed PMID: 27837485.

Laughlin MH, Yang HT, Tharp DL, Rector RS, Padilla J, Bowles DK. Vascular cell transcriptomic changes to exercise training differ directionally along and between skeletal muscle arteriolar trees. Microcirculation. 2017;24(2). doi: 10.1111/micc.12336. PubMed PMID: 27889934.

Radford L, Gallazzi F, Watkinson L, Carmack T, Berendzen A, Lewis MR, Jurisson SS, Papagiannopoulou D, Hennkens HM. Synthesis and evaluation of a 99mTc tricarbonyl-labeled somatostatin receptor-targeting antagonist peptide for imaging of neuroendocrine tumors. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 2017;47:4-9. doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2016.12.002. PubMed PMID: 28043006.

Ruegsegger GN, Toedebusch RG, Braselton JF, Childs TE, Booth FW. Left ventricle transcriptomic analysis reveals connective tissue accumulation associates with initial age-dependent decline in V˙o2peakfrom its lifetime apex. Physiological Genomics. 2017;49(1):53-66. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00083.2016. PubMed PMID: 27913688.

Johnson SA, Spollen WG, Manshack LK, Bivens NJ, Givan SA, Rosenfeld CS. Hypothalamic transcriptomic alterations in male and female California mice (Peromyscus californicus) developmentally exposed to bisphenol A or ethinyl estradiol. Physiological Reports. 2017;5(3). doi: 10.14814/phy2.13133. PubMed PMID: 28196854; PMCID: PMC5309579. Open Access Article

Vientos-Plotts AI, Ericsson AC, Rindt H, Grobman ME, Graham A, Bishop K, Cohn LA, Reinero CR. Dynamic changes of the respiratory microbiota and its relationship to fecal and blood microbiota in healthy young cats. PLoS ONE. 2017;12(3):e0173818. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173818. PubMed PMID: 28278278; PMCID: PMC5344508. Open Access Article

Sheridan MA, Yunusov D, Balaraman V, Alexenko AP, Yabe S, Verjovski-Almeida S, Schust DJ, Franz AW, Sadovsky Y, Ezashi T, Roberts RM. Vulnerability of primitive human placental trophoblast to Zika virus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2017;114(9):E1587-E96. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1616097114. PubMed PMID: 28193876; PMCID: PMC5338554. Open Access Article

Koestel ZL, Backus RC, Tsuruta K, Spollen WG, Johnson SA, Javurek AB, Ellersieck MR, Wiedmeyer CE, Kannan K, Xue J, Bivens NJ, Givan SA, Rosenfeld CS. Bisphenol A (BPA) in the serum of pet dogs following short-term consumption of canned dog food and potential health consequences of exposure to BPA. Science of the Total Environment. 2017;579:1804-14. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.162. PubMed PMID: 27932218.

Zhang H, Dong S, Chen X, Stanley D, Beerntsen B, Feng Q, Song Q. Relish2 mediates bursicon homodimer-induced prophylactic immunity in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Scientific Reports. 2017;7:43163. doi: 10.1038/srep43163. PubMed PMID: 28225068; PMCID: PMC5320557. Open Access Article

Barnes SL, Kerby J, Armstrong J, Llerena L, Bukoski A, Anton J. Response to: Comment on: Live tissue versus simulation training for emergency procedures: Is simulation ready to replace live tissue? Surgery (United States). 2017;161(5):1464-5. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2017.01.004. PubMed PMID: 28202198.

Abel JM, Bishop BE, Thomas JM, Ellersieck MR, Poock SE, Smith MF, Patterson DJ. Comparing strategies to synchronize estrus before fixed-time artificial insemination in primiparous 2-year-old beef cows. Theriogenology. 2017;87:306-15. doi: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2016.09.010. PubMed PMID: 27771115.

Bishop BE, Thomas JM, Abel JM, Poock SE, Ellersieck MR, Smith MF, Patterson DJ. Split-time artificial insemination in beef cattle: II. Comparing pregnancy rates among nonestrous heifers based on administration of GnRH at AI. Theriogenology. 2017;87:229-34. doi: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2016.08.029. PubMed PMID: 27707546.

Thomas JM, Locke JWC, Bishop BE, Abel JM, Ellersieck MR, Yelich JV, Poock SE, Smith MF, Patterson DJ. Evaluation of the 14-d CIDR-PG and 9-d CIDR-PG protocols for synchronization of estrus in Bos indicus-influenced and Bos taurus beef heifers. Theriogenology. 2017;92:190-6. doi: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2017.01.020. PubMed PMID: 28237335.

Nagy DW. Diagnostics and Ancillary Tests of Neurologic Dysfunction in the Ruminant. Veterinary Clinics of North America – Food Animal Practice. 2017;33(1):9-18. doi: 10.1016/j.cvfa.2016.09.002. PubMed PMID: 28166937.

Lee JA, Cohn LA. Fluid Therapy for Pediatric Patients. Veterinary Clinics of North America – Small Animal Practice. 2017;47(2):373-82. doi: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2016.09.010. PubMed PMID: 27939859.

Gronkiewicz KM, Giuliano EA, Sharma A, Mohan RR. Effects of topical hyaluronic acid on corneal wound healing in dogs: a pilot study. Veterinary Ophthalmology. 2017;20(2):123-30. doi: 10.1111/vop.12379. PubMed PMID: 27061134.

Spertus CB, Brown JM, Giuliano EA. Diamond burr debridement vs. grid keratotomy in canine SCCED with scanning electron microscopy diamond burr tip analysis. Veterinary Ophthalmology. 2017. doi: 10.1111/vop.12460. PubMed PMID: 28181368.

Torres BT, Fu YC, Sandberg GS, Budsberg SC. Pelvic limb kinematics in the dog with and without a stifle orthosis. Veterinary Surgery. 2017. doi: 10.1111/vsu.12634. PubMed PMID: 28198549.

 

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home Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Recent CVM Publications (May update)

Recent CVM Publications (May update)

2 May 2017

Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database in the last 30 days.

A note on the links: the doi link will take you directly to the publisher’s web page. The PMID link will take you into PubMed; the PMCID link into PubMed Central. Full-text availability will depend on your institution’s subscriptions.

PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2017

Congratulations to all the recently published authors!

Journal Articles

Jaffey JA, Williams KJ, Masseau I, Krueger M, Reinero C. Vasoproliferative process resembling pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis in a cat. BMC Veterinary Research. 2017;13(1):72. doi: 10.1186/s12917-017-0984-9. PubMed PMID: 28320395; PMCID: PMC5359803. Open Access Article

Zhang MZ, Yang M, Su H, Rollins D, Zhang S. Lactobacillus colini sp. Nov., isolated from northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2017;67(2):325-9. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001624. PubMed PMID: 27902241.

Guess TM, Razu SS, Kuroki K, Cook JL. Function of the anterior intermeniscal ligament. Journal of Knee Surgery. 2017. doi: 10.1055/s-0037-1600089. PubMed PMID: 28355680.

Quick JA, Bukoski AD, Doty J, Bennett BJ, Crane M, Barnes SL. Objective measurement of clinical competency in surgical education using electrodermal activity. Journal of Surgical Education. 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2017.01.007. PubMed PMID: 28373078.

Thamm DH, Vail DM, Post GS, Fan TM, Phillips BS, Axiak-Bechtel S, Elmslie RS, Klein MK, Ruslander DA. Alternating rabacfosadine/doxorubicin: Efficacy and tolerability in naïve canine multicentric lymphoma. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2017. doi: 10.1111/jvim.14700. PubMed PMID: 28370378. Open Access Article

Franklin CL, Ericsson AC. Microbiota and reproducibility of rodent models. Lab Animal. 2017;46(4):114-22. doi: 10.1038/laban.1222. PubMed PMID: 28328896.

Walters EM, Wells KD, Bryda EC, Schommer S, Prather RS. Swine models, genomic tools and services to enhance our understanding of human health and diseases. Lab Animal. 2017;46(4):167-72. doi: 10.1038/laban.1215. PubMed PMID: 28328880.

Manshack LK, Conard CM, Bryan SJ, Deem SL, Holliday DK, Bivens NJ, Givan SA, Rosenfeld CS. Transcriptomic alterations in the brain of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) developmentally exposed to bisphenol a or ethinyl estradiol. Physiological Genomics. 2017;49(4):201-15. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00103.2016. PubMed PMID: 28159858.

Kline RA, Kaifer KA, Osman EY, Carella F, Tiberi A, Ross J, Pennetta G, Lorson CL, Murray LM. Comparison of independent screens on differentially vulnerable motor neurons reveals alpha-synuclein as a common modifier in motor neuron diseases. PLoS Genetics. 2017;13(3):e1006680. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006680. PubMed PMID: 28362802. Open Access Article

Gupta S, Rodier JT, Sharma A, Giuliano EA, Sinha PR, Hesemann NP, Ghosh A, Mohan RR. Targeted AAV5-Smad7 gene therapy inhibits corneal scarring in vivo. PLoS ONE. 2017;12(3):e0172928. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172928. PubMed PMID: 28339457; PMCID: PMC5365107. Open Access Article

Oh A, Pearce JW, Gandolfi B, Creighton EK, Suedmeyer WK, Selig M, Bosiack AP, Castaner LJ, Whiting REH, Belknap EB, Lyons LA, Aderdein D, Alves PC, Barsh GS, Beale HC, Boyko AR, Castelhano MG, Chan P, Ellinwood NM, Garrick DJ, Helps CR, Kaelin CB, Leeb T, Lohi H, Longeri M, Malik R, Montague MJ, Munday JS, Murphy WJ, Pedersen NC, Rothschild MF, Swanson WF, Terio KA, Todhunter RJ, Warren WC. Early-onset progressive retinal atrophy associated with an IQCB1 variant in African black-footed cats (Felis nigripes). Scientific Reports. 2017;7:43918. doi: 10.1038/srep43918. PubMed PMID: 28322220; PMCID: PMC5359545. Open Access Article

 

And Congratulations to Dr. Heidi Schatten on Her New Edited Book!

Schatten H, ed. Progress in Human Reproduction: Updates and New Horizon. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell; 2017.

 

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Team Zalk: Meet the Pets!

Meet the team behind Team Zalk!

Cats, dogs, a rabbit, and a parrot. Oh, how we love our fur/feather-babies! They bring such joy into our lives — how could we not share their fabulousness?

Kate wants you to Meet Trixie!

Laura wants you to Meet Reg! Meet Slipper! And Thank You, Stitch.

Sue wants you to Meet Dexter!  Meet Abu!  Meet Shadow! Meet Jessie!

Enjoy.

A special shout-out to UTK Libraries for the inspiration. #UTKPets

Team Zalk: Meet Reg!

Meet the pets! A look at the team behind Team Zalk!

Name: Reg, which is short for Regulus.

Breed: Felis catus. Domestic Short Hair. I may have some Russian Blue in me because I have very soft thick fur.

Age: I was born June 24, 2008. So, I am 8 years old

Siblings: Slipper; Stitch

How I came to live with my human: She adopted me from one of the labs at the Vet School.

Likes: Playing fetch (it’s not just for dogs you know). I bring my toy up to the top of the stairs & my human tries to throw it past me down the stairs. I sometimes like to cheat by moving half way down the stairs. Laying in the garden windows and watching the birds at the birdfeeders. I’ve tried to catch them, but there’s an invisable barrier that keeps me from getting to them.  Guarding the top of the stairs & checking everyone out who visits because I’m a very social feline. I’m also a very laid back and curious cat. I have to check everything out that is new & different. Going outside whenever I can escape on my own, but my human always brings me back in when she catches me (although sometimes she will let me go out with her). Sleeping with my human. Eating, I really like to eat. I love being petted and having my belly rubbed sometimes. I like to annoy the other feline which sometime gets me in trouble, but we do play at times.  Chewing on the plants, but my human put cages over them so I can’t anymore & the others are behind a closed door.

Dislikes: Being made to move from a spot I’ve chosen for myself; the humans should step around me. Other cats outside. Closed doors. I don’t like being picked up very often. Plastic bags. (I had a very bad experience with one when I was young. I was checking to see what was in them when one attacked & wrapped itself around my back leg. I tried to run from it, but it kept following me. My human finally rescued me by removing it.)

What do I do all day: Whatever I feel like doing which is mostly: Sleep, Eat, Annoy the other cat, Greet my human at the door when she comes home.

My human: Laura Buck

home Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Team Zalk: Thank You, Stitch!

Team Zalk: Thank You, Stitch!

Meet the pets! A look at the team behind Team Zalk!

Name:  Stitch. My original name was Stitches, but my human shortened it to Stitch. She sometimes will call me Stitcharoo or Stitchypoo, which I think is a little demeaning.

Breed: Felis catus. I am a Domestic Calico Shorthair.

Age: I was born sometime during the Spring of 2003. So, I am 13 years going on 14.*

Sibling: Reg

How I came to live with my current human:  I started out as a stray who was adopted by a college student in Kirksville, MO. It came time for him to move into a new apartment that did not allow pets, of all the nerve. He was going to take me to the local Animal Shelter. My current human’s son knew his mother would take me, even though he hadn’t asked her. So, on Thanksgiving day 2003, I was transported to my new home and have been here ever since.

Likes: Belly rubs from my human. Sleeping in my cat beds. Eating. Treats when I can get them. A dripping faucet. Being combed & petted. Sitting next to my human on the couch. Sunning myself in the garden windows.

Dislikes: That other cat when he invades my space. Having my feet touched. Loud noises especially the vacuum cleaner. Too many humans. The cat carrier since it means I’m going to the V-E-T. Trespassers in my human’s yard, D-O-G-S.

What I do with most of my day: Ignore the other cat as much as possible. Sleep. Occasional trips to the food bowl hoping the other cat hasn’t eaten all of the food. Greet my human when she gets home and follow her around the house.

My human: Laura Buck

*Note: Forever friend Stitch crossed the rainbow bridge in October 2017. She is missed.

Team Zalk: Meet Abu!

Meet the pets! A look at the team behind Team Zalk!

Name: Abu

Species: Felis catus. Nearly feral river cat.

Age: 2

Siblings: Dexter; Shadow

Likes: Avocado. Coconut oil. Snuggling with Dexter dog. Avian theatre. Rearranging the house as the humans sleep. His binky blanket. His favorite shoe string.

Dislikes: Being touched. Shadow bunny and pretty much everyone except Dexter.

What he does all day: Torments Dexter dog. Plots his escape.

Hero: Himself

One word: Judgemental

Human: Sue Giger

 

Abu

home Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Team Zalk: Meet Shadow!

Team Zalk: Meet Shadow!

Meet the pets! A look at the team behind Team Zalk!

Name:  Shadow

Species:  Oryctolagus cuniculus. Mini Lop-Eared Bunny.

Age: 1

Siblings: Dexter; Abu

Likes:  Pellet treats. His brothers. Apples. Head massages. Hiding.

Dislikes:  Being held. Untimely delivery of pellets.

What he does all day:  Eats hay. Sleeps in his hidey spot. Waits at the door for someone to let him out of his room.

One word:  D’awwww

Human: Sue Giger

 

Shadow