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Nutritional management of equine diseases and special cases / edited by Bryan Waldridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horses--Diseases--Diet therapy.
- Horses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (423 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
- Summary:
- Nutritional Management of Equine Diseases and Special Cases offers a concise, easy-to-comprehend text for equine veterinarians with questions about commonly encountered nutritional problems. * Assists veterinarians in supporting equine patients with special nutritional needs * Focuses on nutritional problems and impact on different body systems * Covers ponies, miniature horses, draft horses, donkeys, and mules * Offers complete coverage of common diseases and problems helped by nutrition * Includes useful chapters on poisonous plants and mycotoxins
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Miniature horses and ponies
- 1.1 Miniature Horses
- 1.2 General Feeding of Miniature Horses
- 1.3 Pony Feeding
- References
- 2 Draft horses, mules, and donkeys
- 2.1 Draft Horses
- 2.2 Donkeys
- 2.3 Mules
- 3 Gastrointestinal system
- 3.1 The Association between Nutrition and Colic
- 3.2 Nutritional Plans for Horses with Colic
- 3.3 Routes for Feeding Horses Recovering from Colic
- 3.4 Diets for Specific Diseases
- 4 Muscular system
- 4.1 Myopathies Associated with Nutritional Deficiencies
- 4.2 Nutrigenomics
- 5 Endocrine system
- 5.1 Equine Metabolic Syndrome
- 5.2 Feeding Horses with Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction
- 5.3 Pearls and Considerations
- 6 Respiratory system
- 6.1 Effects of Inhaled Dust and Potential Aeroallergens on Equine Respiratory Disease
- 6.2 Respirable Dust Deposition in the Airways
- 6.3 Effects of Soaking Hay
- 6.4 Effects of Steam Treating Hay
- 6.5 Feeding Forage Alternatives
- 6.6 Exercise‐Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage
- 6.7 Acute Interstitial Pneumonia
- 7 Neurologic system
- 7.1 Cervical Vertebral Malformation
- 7.2 Botulism
- 7.3 Ryegrass Staggers
- 7.4 Equine Degenerative Myelopathy and Neuroaxonal Dystrophy
- 7.5 Equine Motor Neuron Disease
- 7.6 Effect of Form and Dose of Vitamin E on Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid Concentrations
- 8 Mycotoxins
- 8.1 Aflatoxins
- 8.2 Fumonisins
- 8.3 Slaframine
- 8.4 Trichothecenes
- 8.5 Mechanism of Action
- 8.6 Zearalenone
- 8.7 Treatment
- 8.8 Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgment
- 9 Poisonous plants
- 9.1 Excessive Salivation Induced by Plants
- 9.2 Colic and Diarrhea‐Inducing Plants
- 9.3 Photodermatitis‐Inducing Plants.
- 9.4 Neurologic Disease‐Inducing Plants
- 9.5 Lameness and Muscle Weakness‐Inducing Plants
- 9.6 Plant‐Induced Calcinosis
- 9.7 Selenium Toxicosis
- 9.8 Anemia‐Inducing Plants
- 9.9 Teratogenic Plants
- 9.10 Sudden Death‐Inducing Plants
- 9.11 Larkspur
- 9.12 Monkshood
- 9.13 Poison Hemlock
- 9.14 Water Hemlock
- 9.15 Yew
- 9.16 Death Camas
- 9.17 Avocado
- Supplemental Reading
- Index
- End User License Agreement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781119191902
- 1119191904
- 9781119191926
- 1119191920
- OCLC:
- 971246276
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