BACKGROUND Robust demographic information is important to understanding the risk of introduction and spread of exotic diseases as well as the development of effective disease control strategies, but is often based on datasets collected for other purposes. Thus, it is important to validate, or at least cross-reference these datasets to other sources to assess whether they are being used appropri...

Background A good therapeutic relationship is a strong predictor of successful treatment in addiction and other psychological illness. Recent studies of horse-assisted therapy (HAT) have drawn attention to the importance of the client's relationship to the horse in psychotherapy. Few have reported on the patient's own perspective and none have reported specifically on the human-horse relationsh...

The titration behavior of individual histidine residues of myoglobins has been studied by observing the pH dependence of the chemical shifts of the nonprotonated aromatic carbon resonances in natural abundance 13C Fourier transform NMR spectra (at 15.18 MHz and 37”),of horse ferrimyoglobin, horse cyanoferrimyoglobin, and red kangaroo cyanoferrimyoglobin. In the case of the cyanoferrimyoglobins,...

Loughrey, C. M., G. L. Smith, and K. E. MacEachern. Comparison of Ca release and uptake characteristics of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in isolated horse and rabbit cardiomyocytes. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 287: H1149–H1159, 2004. First published April 29, 2004; 10.1152/ajpheart.00060.2004.—Both the cardiac action potential duration (APD) (0.6–1 s) and resting heart rate (30–40 beats/min) i...