Christopher Pollitt Laminitis

Loss of type iv collagen type vii collagen and laminin immunostaining.

Christopher pollitt laminitis.

Equine vet j suppl 1998 139 144. Equine laminitis basement membrane pathology. The australian equine laminitis research unit aelru within the uq school of veterinary science has been a world leader in equine laminitis research since the mid 1990s. Pollitt cc daradka m.

And pollitt christopher c. The surface of the inner hoof wall is folded into. Keller marianne d trabi c. Equine laminitis christopher c.

Pollitt lamellar leukocyte infiltration and involvement of il 6 during oligofructose induced equine laminitis development veterinary immunology and immunopathology 10 1016 j vetimm 2011 07144. Pathophysiology of laminitis christopher c. Pollitt may 2008 rirdc publication no 08 062 rirdc uq 118a ii. We have successfully developed an in vitro model pollitt et al 1998 for equine laminitis using small explants of tissue taken from the inner hoof wall of normal freshly killed abattoir horses.

This research group has made a number of significant. Each explant consists of stratum medium the lamellar layer and the sub lamellar connective tissue. Pollitt 5 digital biomechanics relevant to laminitis 39 jonathan merritt helen davies and andrew h. Equine vet j suppl 1998 139 144.

Belknap 7 experimental models of. A laminitis induction model based on alimentary dosing with the nonstructural carbohydrate oligofructose which reproduces the lamellar lesions and clinical signs of natural cases of laminitis. 1h nmr based metabonomic investigation of the developmental phase of fructan induced laminitis. Pollitt a tough flexible connective tissue suspensory apparatus suspends the distal phalanx dp to the inside of the hoof wall.

Pollitt bvsc phd laminitis failure of the distal phalanx to maintain its attachment to the lamellae of the inner hoof wall causes unrelenting pain and a characteristic lameness.