Lameness in dairy cattle causes crippling economic losses to the industry. With up to 52% (average 20-25%) of high-production intensively-managed dairy cows becoming lame each year the loss in milk production is devastating for producers (Clarkson et al. 1996; Green et al. 2002; Warnick et al. 2001). The physiopathological patterns reviewed in this paper also impinge on reproductive performance...

Pain is the main manifestation of many rheumatic diseases (be they overtly inflammatory such as rheumatoid arthritis or dysfunctional such as fibromyalgia) but, at least initially, the mechanisms involved in the genesis, amplification and chronicisation of the persistent pain characterising the various conditions can be very different. The main peripheral mechanism underlying acute nociceptive ...

In order to evaluate medical education and its related problems, study of medical students  point of view is among the important factors. For this purpose questionnaries were given ,to  518 premedical students at the basic science and physiopathology level and they were asked to  comple.te the questionnaries without mentioning their names.  In this study most of the students believed that the q...