Publications by authors named "Camille Hebert"
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- - The study investigates the impact of diet on gastric disease and pain expression in show-jumping horses, focusing on a change from a high-sugar/starch diet to a low-starch diet.
- - After 12 weeks on the low-starch diet, horses showed significant improvements in Equine Gastric Disease scores and ridden pain scores, indicating reduced gastric-related discomfort.
- - The findings suggest that adjusting a horse's diet can significantly minimize gastric issues and enhance their comfort and performance while riding.
Back mobility is a criterion of well-being in a horse. Veterinarians visually assess the mobility of a horse's back during a locomotor examination. Quantifying it with on-board technology could be a major breakthrough to help them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe assessment of lameness in horses can be aided by objective gait analysis tools. Despite their key role of evaluating a horse at trot on a circle, asymmetry thresholds have not been determined for differentiating between sound and lame gait during this exercise. These thresholds are essential to distinguish physiological asymmetry linked to the circle from pathological asymmetry linked to lameness.
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- - Gait asymmetry in horses is difficult to classify as lameness due to complex interpretation of data from gait analysis systems, which provide objective measurements but require specific thresholds for accurate assessment of limb lameness.
- - The study aimed to determine asymmetry index thresholds that correlate closely with expert veterinarians' visual lameness assessments, using data collected from horses evaluated for locomotor disorders through the EQUISYM system with inertial measurement unit sensors.
- - Results showed that certain asymmetry indices, particularly AI-up_W for forelimb lameness and AI-up_P for hindlimb lameness, had high sensitivity (over 78%) and specificity (over 82%), allowing effective discrimination between sound and lame horses.*
The development of on-board technologies has enabled the development of quantification systems to monitor equine locomotion parameters. Their relevance among others relies on their ability to determine specific locomotor events such as foot-on and heel-off events. The objective of this study was to compare the accuracy of different methods for an automatic gait events detection from inertial measurement units (IMUs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe a new method for determining the concentration of total Ca in whole skeletal muscle samples ([CaT]WM in units of mmoles/kg wet weight) using the Ca-dependent UV absorbance spectra of the Ca chelator BAPTA (1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid). Muscle tissue was homogenized in a solution containing 0.15 mM BAPTA and 0.
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