Clinical Veterinary Medicine Unit
Description of Research Activity
Below are shown the main lines of research of the Section:
Cardiology
- Acquired heart disease in dogs (chronic degenerative mitral valve disease and dilated cardiomyopathy): natural history, electrocardiography and echocardiography.
- Evaluation of performances and markers of exercise-induced stress in horses
- Viral myocarditis in dogs
Clinical Pathology
- Application of flow cytometric methods in veterinary field (livestock, pets and laboratory animals)
- Hematopoietic neoplasms: morphologic, molecular and flow cytometric characterization. Cytological classification, PARR and immunophenotype, proliferative activity, DNA content /ploidy and apoptosis are studied in leukemias and lymphomas in order to evaluate their usefulness in diagnosis, staging and prognosis
- Cytological approaches in veterinary oncology
- Study of coagulation disorders in some animal species (dog and cow) by using the Thromboelastometry
Emergency and Critical Care
- Study of changes in oncotic pressure in dogs and therapeutic effectiveness of colloidal solutions in different pathologies
Internal Medicine
- Clinical and clinico-pathological characterization of dogs affected by protein-losing enteropathy
- Comparison among different canine populations suffering from adverse reaction to food, antibiotic-responsive enteropathy and steroid-responsive enteropathy
- Feline chronic enteropathies
- Clinical and clinico-pathological features of dogs affected by deep systemic mycosis
- Metabolic consequences of intermittent hypoxia in brachycephalic dogs
- Development of diagnostic diagram for rapid field assessment of acidosis severity in diarrheic calves
- Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic approach to canine leishmaniosis
Neurology
- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy in Bovine
- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy in Small Ruminants
- Bovine Cerebrospinal fluid storage technic
- Bovine Seizures disorders
- Otitis Media-Interna in calves
Ultrasound
- Ophtalmic echography in small animals eye diseases
- Morphologic and dimensional aspects of normal and pathologic adrenal gland in the dog
Welfare and Behavioural Medicine
- Assessment of welfare in cows housed in compost-bedded pack
- Clinical pharmacologic correlation in aggressive dogs treated with fluoxetine
Staff of the Unit
Aurelio CAGNASSO | Full Professor | aurelio.cagnasso@unito.it |
Alberto TARDUCCI | Full Professor | alberto.tarducci@unito.it |
Claudio BELLINO | Associate Professor | claudio.bellino@unito.it |
Antonio D'ANGELO | Associate Professor | antonio.dangelo@unito.it |
Fulvio RIONDATO | Associate Professor | fulvio.riondato@unito.it |
Renato ZANATTA | Associate Professor | renato.zanatta@unito.it |
Antonio BORRELLI | Assistant Professor | antonio.borrelli@unito.it |
Paola GIANELLA | Assistant Professor | paola.gianella@unito.it |
Barbara MINISCALCO | Assistant Professor | barbara.miniscalco@unito.it |