Tendon research earns vet PhD at special NZ ceremony
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Equine tendon researcher Dr Sarah Taylor is with 4 veterinarians to have a PhD during a special graduation ceremony concluding calendar week to grade fifty years of veterinary didactics at Massey University.
PhDs were also presented to Dr Kerri Morgan, Dr Danielle Aberdein, as well as Dr Eric Neumann.
The ceremony at the Regent on Broadway saw 96 Bachelor of Veterinary Science degrees awarded, along with 29 Bachelor of Veterinary Technology degrees. One Postgraduate Diploma inward Veterinary Public Health, 2 Masters of Veterinary Science as well as i Master of Veterinary Studies were also awarded.
Dr Taylor’s doctoral thesis looked at tendon injury, which is a major welfare as well as fiscal work inward horses. She developed as well as tested models of needlelike tendon injury inward sheep as well as horses. These models enabled the report of structural as well as functional changes inward tendons as well as used a number of methods, including ultrasound imaging as well as molecular methods to target gap junctions that link cells as well as are involved inward the spread of jail cellular telephone expiry next injury.
The mightiness to modulate these gap junctions would thence furnish a potential intervention strategy to aid tendon healing. Taylor’s results demonstrate that sheep as well as Equus caballus systems response differently to intervention strategies as well as thus furnish real useful experimental systems to farther report tendon healing mechanisms, which could Pb to a therapeutic handling regimen for both horses as well as potentially people.
Dr Morgan, a wild animals veterinary at Massey’s Wildbase hospital, has discovered novel information nigh the parasite coccidiosis, which affects kiwi inward captivity. The parasite infects the gastrointestinal as well as renal organisation as well as tin number inward death. She identified coccidiosis inward 4 of the 5 species of kiwi, including brown, rowi, slap-up spotted as well as Haast tokoeka, as well as examined guide a opportunity factors to decide which kiwi are most prone to the disease. Her interrogation shows the affliction behaves real differently inward kiwi than chickens, as well as this information volition hold upward used to furnish advice to conservation workers managing this affliction inward captive reared kiwi.
Institute of Veterinary, Animal as well as Biomedical Sciences lecturer Dr Aberdein’s interrogation characterises a novel inherited affliction inward British shorthair kittens that causes abnormal proliferation of lymphocytes – a type of white blood cell. This affliction has several similarities to the human affliction autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome. It is hoped that hereafter studies volition aid confirm whether the feline affliction has the potential to hold upward used every bit an brute model for the human disease. Her findings back upward the hypothesis that defects inward programmed T-lymphocyte expiry are a part inward the evolution of the affliction inward kittens.
Dr Neumann is a senior lecturer inward squealer wellness as well as epidemiology at the institute. He undertook epidemiological studies of New Zealand’s non-commercial squealer holdings to quantify the likelihood of an exotic affliction incursion. Based on these studies, affliction surveillance methods were investigated as well as so presented to manufacture stakeholders for suitability inward terms of damage as well as feasibility. Dr Neumann’s piece of work demonstrates that the New Zealand squealer manufacture is susceptible to the introduction of an exotic affliction as well as that the non-commercial squealer population must hold upward considered when developing affliction readiness plans for the industry.
Also at the ceremony, Institute of Veterinary, Animal as well as Biomedical Sciences caput Professor Frazer Allan presented 2 honorary Bachelor of Veterinary Science degrees to Gary Clark as well as Bob Gumbrell.
Chancellor Chris Kelly was presented with the Massey University Veterinary 50-year Anniversary medal.
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