The medical term for not eating enough food is ‘anorexia’ and it can be a problem in all animals including humans. However, in cats, it is especially dangerous. When a cat does not eat, their body has to use fat reserves to keep them alive. The fat has to be processed by the li...
Although a refusal to eat is a cause for concern for all pets, it can be more dangerous for cats. When animals don’t eat enough, they must rely on their fat reserves for energy. Before stored fat can be used for fuel, it must be processed by the liver. This step requires adequate...
For many dog owners, kidney disease is a scary reality. Today's article offers ways to help prevent and remedy kidney disease in dogs.
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Influenza has a long history of causing morbidity and mortality in the human population through routine seasonal spread and global pandemics. The high mutation rate of the RNA genome of the influenza virus, combined with assortment of its multiple genomi
As the influenza genome is segmented (multiple pieces), new strains can quickly appear by reassortment in co-infection. Known as antigenic shift, this often leads to hybrid strains that are markedly different [25]. For example, co-infection by human and swine (pig) influenza viruses can genera...
(Sharun et al.2020a,b,c). In the internal environment, the infection was shown by dogs and cats with moderate to extreme symptoms (Mykytyn et al.2020). Foodborne and zoonotic pathogens are an important threat in the poultry industry for eradication, elimination, and/or control (H. M. ...
Hypothyroidism's involvement in the disease process doesn't stop with heart disease and cancer. But I wanted to shed some light on these two in particular because they are responsible for nearly half of all deaths in the United States each year. Imagine how many unnecessary deaths could be ...
The temptation is often great to refer such cases to psychotherapists; in the past this course has often been pursued too hastily—and ineffectively—since many patients balk at such treatment for what they strongly regard to be a physiological problem. A treatment procedure aimed at general ...
Some caspases are also required in the immune system for the maturation of lymphocytes. Failure of apoptosis has been shown to contribute to tumor development, chemoresistance and autoimmune diseases. It has been shown that caspases and calpains interact with each other to increase or decrease ...