Objective- This study refers to the role of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of mammary gland tumor in bitches as a complementary diagnostic method and its ultimate goal is to evaluate the results of mammography with the positive results of ultrasonography. Design- Prospective study. Animals- 12 German Shepherd bitches with swollen mass in the mammary gland region (group I) and 12 h...

BREED specifications for pure-bred/pedigree dogs are laid down by the organisations that register and judge dogs, such as the Kennel Club of the UK (KCUK) and the Kennel Union of South Africa (KUSA), as well as the umbrella body the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI). Reproductive isolation between breeds results because animals can only be registered as a specific breed if they have f...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine whether abnormal ventricular repolarization is implicated in cardiac arrhythmias of German shepherd dogs with inherited sudden death. BACKGROUND Moïse et al. (9) have identified German shepherd dogs that display pause-dependent lethal ventricular arrhythmias. METHODS Ventricular repolarization was studied both in vivo using electrocardiogram recordi...

Balkan Livestock Guardian Dogs (LGD) were bred to help protect sheep flocks in sparsely populated, remote mountainous areas the Balkans. The aim of this study was genomic characterization (107,403 autosomal SNPs) three LGD breeds from Balkans (Karst Shepherd, Sharplanina Dog, and Tornjak). Our analyses performed on 44 dogs representing breeds, as well 79 publicly available genotypes eight other...

1. Motivation. Let J0(N) denote the Jacobian of the modular curve X0(N) parametrizing pairs of N -isogenous elliptic curves. The simple factors of J0(N) have real multiplication, that is to say that the endomorphism ring of a simple factor A contains an order in a totally real number field of degree dimA. We shall sometimes abbreviate “real multiplication” to “RM” and say that A has maximal RM ...

Background: Hydatidosis is a neglected cyclo-zoonotic disease in Middle East countries particularly southeast of Iran which is caused by metacestode of tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato. Human hydatidosis is a high public health priority in the area, however there is little known from a phylogenetic perspective on molecular epidemiology of adult Echinococcus spp. in Iranian shepherd d...

The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of fish oil supplementation prior to mating on secondary sex ratio of pups (the proportion of males at birth) in bitches. Sixty five bitches (German Shepherd, n = 35; Husky, n = 30) were enrolled in the study. Bitches (140-150 days post-estrus) were given 2% per dry matter intake palm oil and fish oil in the control (n = 33) and treatment (...

Background: The secretion of growth hormone (GH) is stimulated by sleep, high protein diet, exercise, and hypoglycemia, among some other causes. A potent stimulus for GH release is a peptide from the stomach wall, ghrelin. In young dogs, ghrelin is more potent in stimulating GH release than is GH releasing hormone. In humans, ghrelin also stimulates the secretion of prolactin, adrenocorticotrop...