João Marcos G Barbosa, Ana Luiza Reis R Cunha, Lurian C David, Ícaro N Camelo, Nauyla M Martins, Felipe S Galvão, Débora R Mendonça, Marianna T Venâncio, Roberta Dias S Cunha, Alessandro R Costa Filho, Izadora M Veloso, Juliano José R Fernandes, Paulo Henrique Jorge da Cunha, Nelson R Antoniosi Filho
Bovine laminitis disorder results in animal welfare and economic concerns in dairy and beef farms worldwide. However, the affected metabolic pathways, pathophysiologic characteristics, and inflammatory mechanisms remain unclear, hampering the development of new diagnostics. Using cerumen (earwax) as a source of volatile metabolites (cerumenomic) that carry valuable biological information has interesting implications for veterinary medicine. Nonetheless, up to now, no applications of veterinary cerumenomic assays have been made to identify bovine laminitis...
December 5, 2023: Veterinary Research Communications