Heart valves exhibit a highly-conserved stratified structure exquisitely designed to counter
biomechanical forces delivered over a lifetime. Heart valve structure and competence is …

Background Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death in children aged four to 18
years and are a major cause of ill health. The school setting offers the opportunity to deliver …

Pulmonary hypertension occurs as a primary or secondary disorder of the pulmonary
vasculature. Doppler echocardiography provides a noninvasive tool for the estimation of …

Background Immunocompromised patients are vulnerable to severe or complicated
influenza infection. Vaccination is widely recommended for this group. This systematic …

This Mycosphaerella graminicola pathogen profile covers recent advances in the knowledge
of this ascomycete fungus and of the disease it causes, septoria tritici blotch of wheat …

Objective To determine factors associated with disease-free interval and survival time for
dogs with pericardial effusion. Design Retrospective study. Animals 46 dogs. Procedure …

Methods: Bovine pericardium (BP) underwent stan-dard (Std) decellularization consisting of
hypotonic lysis and treatment with DNAse/RNAse. In addition to Std decellularization …

Accelerating international trade and climate change make pathogen spread an increasing
concern. Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the causal agent of ash dieback, is a fungal pathogen …

Medial thickening of the pulmonary arterial wall, secondary to smooth muscle cell (SMC)
hyperplasia, is commonly observed in neonatal hypoxic pulmonary hypertension. Because …

OBJECTIVES: The pathogenesis and presentation of aortic thrombosis (AT) in dogs is not
well characterized and an effective antithrombotic therapy for AT in dogs has not been …