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We are asking for your help in locating potential donation animals for two ongoing research projects at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. The object of our first research project is to determine the effect of diet in the formation of gastric ulcers in horses. Up to 90% of performance horses are affected by gastric ulcers. This is a serious disease which often causes colic, loss of performance and in some cases, gastric rupture, which can result in death. We hope that this study will help to elucidate the mechanism of ulcer formation, resulting in the ability to manipulate diet in order to minimize ulcerogenic potential. The object of our second research project is to test a method that we hope will be faster and better for equine surgeons doing abdominal surgeries. It is a small intestinal anastomosis project. Because we need to use gastric squamous mucosa and small intestinal tissue in this research, this is a terminal study. We are looking for both horses with gastric ulcers and with no history of gastric ulcers. We don't wish to euthanize horses that can have a useful and happy life, so we would like to locate horses that are to be put down, because, for instance, they have cervical vertebral malformation or other chronic, incurable problems.
NO painful procedures or surgery will be performed. Rather, these horses will be humanely euthanized and the tissues will be harvested.
If you are aware of any such horses, please contact us at the address below. We thank you very much in advance for your assistance.
- , DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVIM, Professor and Section Chief
- , DVM
- , MS
University of Tennessee College of Veterinary
Medicine
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Tel: (865) 974-5764, 974-5703
Fax: (865) 974-5773