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Hepatic Disease in Small Animals: An Overview

Introduction to Liver Disease The liver is responsible for a variety of functions, including lipid, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism; vitamin storage, metabolism, and activation; mineral, glycogen, and triglyceride storage; extramedullary hematopoiesis; and coagulant, anticoagulant, and several acute phase proteins synthesis. Through the production and enterohepatic circulation of bile acids, as well as the detoxification of […]

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Small Animal Nutritional Needs and Diseases

Nutritional problems in dogs and cats are uncommon in industrialized countries, especially when they are fed high-quality, commercial, comprehensive, and balanced diets. When dogs and cats are fed imbalanced homemade diets, cats are fed diets formulated for dogs, or dogs and cats are fed particular human foods, nutritional problems are most common. Dog or cat […]

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Effects of Portulaca oleracea, Omega-3, and Combination of Sodium Selenite and Vitamin E on Hepatic Enzymes

Daryoush Babazadeh1*, Ali Shabestari Asl2, Alireza Sadeghi3, Muhammad Saeed4, and Arman Moshavery5 School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran Department of Pharmacy, University of […]

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Case Report of Fibrocartilaginous Embolic Myelopathy of the Spinal Cord in a Female Dog

Sina Salavati1, Muhammad H Kafrashi2, Daryoush Babazadeh3*, Mohammadreza Raznahan2 Department of Small Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Pet and Exotic Diseases Clinic, Aria Veterinary Hospital, Mashhad, Iran * Corresponding author: Daryoush Babazadeh, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. […]

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