Heather Ryan and L. David Dubé Veterinary Health and Research Fund

Can nanomedicine end endotoxemia?

December 03rd, 2011

A previous study conducted in the United States showed that eight out of 10 horses experience colic during their lifetime. Of those affected horses, 40 per cent of them die, likely as a result of endotoxemia – a complicating factor in many common equine diseases like colic and metritis (inflammation of the uterus). Endotoxemia in horses occurs when the circulating …

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