It is exciting that JVIM is now online, and that ACVIM diplomates receive it direct to our inboxes, ready to download. Open Access means that JVIM has a greater distribution, and therefore a larger influence on the veterinary community, and expands the " branding " of ACVIM to the world. With such influence comes greater responsibility, as what is published in the JVIM reflects on the ACVIM as ...

We want you to consider in detail the paper published in the January 2013 issue of Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition, by Tomoki Aomatsu et al. entitled “Neutralization of complement component C5 ameliorates the development of dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-colitis in mice”. The authors have evaluated the pathophysiological role of the complement system in a mice colitis model. To stu...

Using only proteomics, Bromenshenk et al (PLoS One, 2011, 5(10):e13181) have claimed to have found peptides from an invertebrate iridovirus in bees displaying symptoms of Colony Collapse Disorder. These findings have not been reproduced by anyone else and raised several questions when they were first published due to the database apparently used to identify proteins from MS/MS data. I had origi...

Dear Sir, Dennis Trumble is to be congratulated on the progress he has made towards an efficient linear muscle energy converter, and for setting out the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches needed to translate this hydraulic work into useful cardiac assistance [5]. It is certainly helpful that the linear configuration does not require sacrifice of the perforating (so-called ‘colla...