Publications by authors named "Damir Zubcic"
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- Bovine mastitis is a common disease in dairy cows that negatively impacts animal welfare and causes significant economic losses, prompting research into how natural infections affect milk proteins.
- The study used advanced proteomic techniques to analyze milk samples from infected Holstein cows, identifying key proteins that vary significantly between different bacteria causing mastitis.
- Researchers found 156 proteins overall, with several showing potential as biomarkers for diagnosing specific bacterial infections, which could improve detection and management of mastitis in dairy herds.
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- Retained placenta (RP) in dairy cows negatively affects their health and milk production, prompting a study on the differences in serum proteins between RP and normal postpartum cows.
- Using advanced mass spectrometry, researchers identified 651 proteins, finding ten with significant changes in abundance between the two groups; seven proteins were higher and three lower in RP cows.
- The study confirmed that specific proteins, like haptoglobin and lipopolysaccharide-binding protein, could serve as potential biomarkers for predicting or assessing the severity of RP in dairy cows.
Canine babesiosis is a tick-borne disease caused by Babesia canis, with acute kidney injury as one of the common complications. In the study 8 healthy control dogs and 22 dogs with naturally occurring babesiosis were enrolled, with the aim to analyse differences in serum and urinary proteomes between healthy dogs and dogs with different degree of renal dysfunction in babesiosis using a label-based high-throughput quantitative proteomic approach. In serum, 58 proteins were found differentially abundant between healthy controls and groups of dogs with different degrees of renal dysfunction in babesiosis, while in urine there were 259 differentially abundant proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUse of animals for therapeutic purposes, animal assisted therapy or AAT is a method for improving quality of life for long-term inpatients. The object of this paper was to evaluate dog companionship as a form of AAT and its effects on perception of loneliness in geriatric nursing home residents. The participants were involved in a six-month program of dog companionship three times weekly for 90 minutes.
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