Definitive Glasgow acute pain scale for cats: validation and intervention level
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Reid, J., Scott, E. M., Calvo, G., & Nolan, A. M. (2017)
Definitive Glasgow acute pain scale for cats: validation and intervention level. Veterinary Record, 180(18), 449. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104208
Ovine trophoblasts express cathelicidin host defence peptide in response to infection
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Coyle, C., Wheelhouse, N., Jacques, M., Longbottom, D., Svoboda, P., Pohl, J., …Barlow, P. G. (2016)
Ovine trophoblasts express cathelicidin host defence peptide in response to infection. Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 117, 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jri.2016.06.006
Cationic host defence peptides (CHDP; also known as antimicrobial peptides) are key components of the immune response in the female reproductive tract. The role of the placent...
Development, validation and reliability of a web-based questionnaire to measure health-related quality of life in dogs
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Reid, J., Wiseman-Orr, M. L., Scott, E. M., & Nolan, A. M. (2013)
Development, validation and reliability of a web-based questionnaire to measure health-related quality of life in dogs. Journal of Small Animal Practice, 54(5), 227-233. doi:10.1111/jsap.12059
Objectives
To describe the development, preliminary validation and reliability testing of a shortened web-based form of GUVQuest, a structured questionnaire to measure health...
Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (part 2)
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Wiseman-Orr, M. L., Scott, E. M., & Nolan, A. (2011)
Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (part 2). Animal Welfare, 20(4), 549-558
The development of a novel structured questionnaire instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) in individual farmed pigs was described previously (companion p...
Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (Part 1)
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Wiseman-Orr, M. L., Scott, E. M., & Nolan, A. M. (2011)
Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (Part 1). Animal Welfare, 20(4), 535=548
Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was defined for farmed animals and identified as an appropriate focus of integrative welfare
measurement for farmed pigs that embraces me...
Quality of life is reduced in obese dogs but improves after successful weight loss
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German, A. J., Holden, S. L., Wiseman-Orr, M. L., Reid, J., Nolan, A. M., Biourge, V., …Scott, E. M. (2012)
Quality of life is reduced in obese dogs but improves after successful weight loss. Veterinary Journal, 192(3), 428-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2011.09.015
Obesity is thought to affect quality of life, but limited objective data exist to support this supposition. The current study aim was to use a questionnaire to determine healt...
The impact of prenatal stress on basal nociception and evoked responses to tail-docking and inflammatory challenge in juvenile pigs
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Sandercock, D. A., Gibson, I. F., Rutherford, K. M. D., Donald, R. D., Lawrence, A. B., Brash, H. M., …Nolan, A. M. (2011)
The impact of prenatal stress on basal nociception and evoked responses to tail-docking and inflammatory challenge in juvenile pigs. Physiology and Behavior, 104(5), 728-737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.07.018
The consequences of tail-docking (at 2–4 days) and prenatal stress (maternal social stress during the 2nd third of pregnancy) on baseline nociceptive thresholds and responses ...
Specific Non-Genomic, Membrane-Localized Binding Sites for Progesterone in the Bovine Corpus Luteum1
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Rae, M. T., Menzies, G. S., McNeilly, A. S., Woad, K., Webb, R., & Bramley, T. A. (1998)
Specific Non-Genomic, Membrane-Localized Binding Sites for Progesterone in the Bovine Corpus Luteum1. Biology of Reproduction, 58(6), 1394-1406. https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod58.6.1394
Fractionation of bovine corpus luteum (CL) homogenates on continuous sucrose density gradients with and without preincubation with 3H-progesterone demonstrated high levels of ...