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The Veterinary Journal A P R I L 2009 Guest Editorials Veterinary science and the Internet: Tangible help for a better understanding of equine atypical myopathy P. Harris ?

Animal welfare in dairy farming: Lameness and the organic movement

P.R Greenough

Updating our knowledge of mycobacterial infection of fish K.E. Creevy and F.D. Reviews Optical metrology methods for mechanical testing of whole bones

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M.M. Barak, A. Sharir and R. Shahar

The Function, composition and analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in companion animáis: Part I I - Analysis R Di Terlizzi and S.R Platt

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Mycobacteriosis in fishes: A review

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D.T. Gauthier and M.W. Rhodes

Original .Articles The effeets of surface preparation on the penetration of hydrocortisone through canine skin S.E. Cross, J.M. Morlón and P.C. Mills

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The efficacy of cyclosporine A in cats with presumed atopic dermatitis: A double blind, randomised prednisolonecontrolled studv M.A. Wisselink and T. Willemse

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The effect of photodynamic therapy on squamous cell carcinoma in a murine model: Evaluation of time between intralesional injection to láser irradiation L.D. Barnes, E.A. (indiano, J. Ota, L.A. Cohn and CP. Moore

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Partial sequencing and expression of genes involved in glucose metabolism in adipose tissues and skeletal muscle of healthy cats E. Zini, P. Linscheid, M. Franchini, K. Kaufmann, E. Monnais, A.P. Kutter, M. Ackermann, T.A. Lutz and CE. Reusch

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Electromyographic activity of the longissimus dorsi muscles in horses when walking on a treadmill and C Peham

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Atypical myopathy in grazing horses: A first exploratory data analysis D.-M. Votion, A. Linden, C Delguste, H. Amory, E. Thiry, P. Engels, G. van Galen, R Navet, F. Sluse, D. Serteyn and C Saegerman

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An immunohistochemical study of the role of matrix metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors in chronic mitral valvular disease (valvular endocardiosis) in dogs H. Aupperle, J. Thielebein, B. Kiefer, L Man, G. Dinges and H.-A. Schoon

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Lameness prevalence and risk factors in organic and non-organic dairy herds in the United Kingdom K.M.D. Rutherjord, F.M. Langford, M.C. Jack, L . Shenvood, A.B. Lawrence and M.J. Haskell

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Haematological and biochemical changes in dogs naturally infected with Angiostrongylus vasorum before and after treatment J . L . Willesen, A.L. Jensen, A.T. Kristensen andJ. Koch

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Pressure profile in the caudal extradural space of standing horses before and after extradural drug administration /. Iff, M. Mosing and Y. Moens

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VIncreased survival in dogs with malignant mammary tumours overexpressing HER-2 protein and detecüon of a silent single nucleotide polymorphism in the canine HER-2 gene W.-L. Hsu, H.-M. Huang, J.-W. Liao, M.-L. Wong and S.-C. Chang

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Analysis of the AIDA-I gene sequence and prevalence in Escherichia coli isolates from pigs with post-weaning diarrhoea and oedema disease L . Zhao, X. Chen, X. Xu, G. Song and X. Liu

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Short Communication Quantitative analysis of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA duration in tissues«"-of experimentally infected pigs Z. Zhang and J.B. Bashvruddin Book Reviews

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