Publications by authors named "Elisabeth Ranninger"
This systematic review aimed to identify the evidence concerning the analgesic efficacy of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to treat abdominal pain in horses, and to establish whether one non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug could provide better analgesia compared to others. This systematic review was conducted following the "Systematic Review Protocol for Animal Intervention Studies". Research published between 1985 and the end of May 2023 was searched, using three databases, namely, PubMed, Embase, and Scopus, using the words equine OR horse AND colic OR abdominal pain AND non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug AND meloxicam OR flunixin meglumine OR phenylbutazone OR firocoxib OR ketoprofen.
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- Rodent cancer models often fail to accurately predict how immunotherapy works in humans, leading researchers to explore companion dogs with cancer as a more relevant model for studying treatment efficacy.
- The study tested seven FDA-approved immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) to see how well they worked on canine cells, finding that four showed cross-reactivity, with atezolizumab notably enhancing cytokine production from immune cells of both healthy and cancer-affected dogs.
- The encouraging results with atezolizumab point towards the potential for developing immunotherapies in dogs, which could ultimately benefit research and treatment in both veterinary and human settings.
Companion dogs are increasingly recognized as large-animal models of diseases such as cancer, infectious-, inflammatory-, or autoimmune diseases. At the same time, compared to human clinics, veterinarians have only a fraction of the treatment options available. To study the immunological aspects of canine diseases and ultimately develop or adapt human treatments for the dog, the methodology also needs to be in place.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnaesthetic drugs are commonly used during the evaluation of laryngeal function in dogs. The aim of this review was to systematically analyse the literature describing the effects of anaesthetic drugs and doxapram on laryngeal motion in dogs and to determine which drug regime provides the best conditions for laryngeal examination. PubMed, Google Scholar, and EMBASE databases were used for the literature search up to November 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: It was recently shown that biomechanical stability achieved with a locking compression plate (LCP) for ventral cervical fusion in horses is similar to the commonly used Kerf cut cylinder. The advantages of the LCP system render it an interesting implant for this indication. The goal of this report was to describe surgical technique, complications and outcome of horses that underwent ventral fusion of two or three cervical vertebrae with an LCP.
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