Publications by authors named "M Venner"
In this study, gastroscopy was performed twice in 31 two-year-old Thoroughbred racehorses in training. Salivary cortisol (SC) and fecal cortisol metabolite (FCM) concentrations were determined to measure the stress impact. One gastroscopy was performed at the beginning and one six months later at the end of the horses' first training season.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Fragile foal syndrome (FFS) or warmblood FFS Type 1 (WFFS) is a recessive, autosomal, hereditary, genetic defect causing late abortions, stillbirths and non-viable foals. Whether early pregnancy losses occur is unknown.
Objectives: To investigate how WFFS affects pregnancies and whether early pregnancy losses occur in WFFS matings and if there is a difference in pregnancy success between matings where both parents were allele carriers and those where only mare or stallion were WFFS carriers.
Article Synopsis
- Systemic immune-mediated diseases (SIDs) may contribute to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and this study aimed to explore the genetic predispositions present in DCM patients with SIDs.
- The research involved 183 DCM-SID patients, identifying a significantly higher prevalence of pathogenic genetic variants in these individuals compared to healthy controls and DCM patients without SIDs.
- Findings suggest that about 17-20% of DCM patients with SIDs have pathogenic variants, particularly truncating variants like TTN, indicating the importance of genetic testing for understanding the causes of immune-related DCM.
Background: Electrolyte supplementation may be a risk factor for gastric mucosal lesions, but relevant evidence is limited in horses.
Hypothesis: Investigate the effects of PO sodium chloride (NaCl) supplementation on the gastric mucosa of exercising horses. We hypothesized that NaCl supplementation would neither cause nor exacerbate existing gastric mucosal damage.