December 2025 Research Publications

DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE, DIAGNOSTIC & POPULATION MEDICINE

• Calcitonin gene-related peptide concentration in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in horses affected by trigeminal-mediated headshaking.  Weber LA, Oltmanns H, Chiavaccini L, Pickles KJ, Roberts V, Kloock T, Niebuhr T, Feige K. Equine Vet J. 2025 Dec 19. doi: 10.1002/evj.70139. Online ahead of print.
  PMID: 41416948     
• Detection of lymphoproliferative disease virus in domestic and wild turkeys through RNAscope in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.  Goodwin CC, Zhang J, Adcock KG, Allison AB, Poulson RL, Ruder MG, Nemeth NM. J Vet Diagn Invest. 2026 Jan;38(1):41-49. doi: 10.1177/10406387251368309. Epub 2025 Nov 11.
  PMID: 41216701 Free PMC article.     
• Novel Gastric Helicobacter Species in Stranded Pygmy Sperm Whales (Kogia breviceps) on the East Coast of Florida, USA.  Marks W, Castellanos-Gell J, Tillis SB, Pegg N, Rotstein D, Han S, Wellehan JFX, Childress A, Burton S, Page A. J Wildl Dis. 2025 Nov 24. doi: 10.7589/JWD-D-24-00204. Online ahead of print.
  PMID: 41275882     

DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND IMMUNOLOGY

• Microbial-derived immunostimulatory small molecule augments anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer.  Newsome RC, Liu H, Agbodzi B, Gharaibeh RZ, Zhou L, Jobin C. Cell Rep Med. 2025 Dec 19:102519. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102519. Online ahead of print.
  PMID: 41421351     
• Uneven Plasmodium falciparum transmission and cryptic ovale transmission from the asymptomatic reservoir in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.  Lin JT, Mathias DK, Yang G, Loya M, Muller MS, Basham C, Nyasembe V, Amagai K, Rutha I, Gaither C, Nyange M, Said H, Chhetri SB, Swinehart B, Lin FC, Dinglasan RR, Juliano JJ, Tarimo B, Ngasala B. J Infect Dis. 2025 Dec 13:jiaf634. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf634. Online ahead of print.
  PMID: 41386967     

DEPARTMENT OF LARGE ANIMAL CLINICAL SCIENCES

• Differences in reproductive and productive performance and removal from the herd associated with time to clinical cure in dairy cows treated for metritis.  Pereira FNS, de Oliveira EB, Merenda VR, Lima FS, Chebel RC, Galvão KN, Santos JEP, Bisinotto RS, Figueiredo CC. J Dairy Sci. 2026 Jan;109(1):754-765. doi: 10.3168/jds.2025-27395. Epub 2025 Nov 7.
  PMID: 41207440     
• Proteomic Characterization of Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Urine.  Cusick KN, Bland A, Stacy NI, McFee WE, Takeshita R, Wells RS, Smith CR, Schwacke L, Janech MG. J Proteome Res. 2025 Dec 13. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00718. Online ahead of print.
  PMID: 41389023     
• Year-round supplementation of direct-fed microbials to cow-calf pairs and its effects on maternal and offspring productive performance.  Moriel P, Izquierdo VS, Brauner CC, Silva JL, Sousa LM, Berwanger JG, Cardoso KB, Crawford CA, Bittar JHJ, Monteiro P, Poore MH, Cooke RF, Vendramini JMB, Cappellozza BI. Transl Anim Sci. 2025 Oct 4;9:txaf137. doi: 10.1093/tas/txaf137. eCollection 2025.
  PMID: 41377674 Free PMC article.     

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

• Evidence for the Loss of Pneumatization and Pneumosteal Tissues in Secondarily Aquatic Archosaurs.  Byrne PJ, Smith ND, Schachner ER, Bottjer DJ, Huttenlocker AK. Integr Org Biol. 2025 Dec 3;7(1):obaf039. doi: 10.1093/iob/obaf039. eCollection 2025.
  PMID: 41383558 Free PMC article.     
• Toxicophore-informed machine learning integrating Tox21 assay readouts for organ system-specific carcinogenicity prediction.  Chen CY, Chou WC, Kamineni VN, Wu PY, Zhang Z, Wu X, Vulpe CD, Lin Z. Environ Pollut. 2025 Dec 11:127519. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127519. Online ahead of print.
  PMID: 41389866     

DEPARTMENT OF SMALL ANIMAL CLINICAL SCIENCES

• Outcome and Toxicity Profile of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Adrenal Tumours in Dogs.  Thorsen L, Law K, Walz J, Coll VM, Naramor A, Maitz C, Kubicek L, Thorsen Z, Gutti JR, Takada M. Vet Comp Oncol. 2025 Dec 17. doi: 10.1111/vco.70035. Online ahead of print.
  PMID: 41410158     
• EXPRESS: Guidelines for nutritional management of feline diabetes mellitus: a proposed classification system integrating medical considerations.  Hookey T, Backus R, Bjornvad CR, Davison L, Fleeman L, Fracassi F, German AJ, Gilor C, Gostelow R, Schoeman T, Flanagan J. J Feline Med Surg. 2025 Dec 10:1098612X251409019. doi: 10.1177/1098612X251409019. Online ahead of print.
  PMID: 41369075  Review.
• Sentinel lymph node mapping with computed tomography lymphangiography and intraoperative methylene blue peritumoral injection has a high detection rate with moderate agreement in dogs with oral neoplasms.  Bae S, Mckenna C, Goldschmidt S, Skinner OT, Bertran J, Reynolds D, Oblak ML. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2025 Jul 30;263(12):1-9. doi: 10.2460/javma.24.11.0758. Print 2025 Dec 1.
  PMID: 40738145     
• Concomitant changes in regional myocardial deformation and intraventricular pressure gradients in normal and sedated goats: advanced multimodal echocardiographic study.  Mandour AS, Samir H, Farag A, Hamabe L, Matsuura K, Yoshida T, Watanabe G, Tanaka R. BMC Vet Res. 2025 Nov 15;21(1):667. doi: 10.1186/s12917-025-05087-y.
  PMID: 41241752 Free PMC article.     
• Changes in hemodynamics of pulmonary artery using Flowire in a canine model of acute pulmonary thromboembolism.  Yoshida T, Matsuura K, Uemura A, Tanaka R. Animal Model Exp Med. 2025 Oct;8(10):1888-1895. doi: 10.1002/ame2.70061. Epub 2025 Jul 8.
  PMID: 40628678 Free PMC article.     
• Adeno-associated vector corneal gene therapy reverses corneal clouding in a feline model of mucopolysaccharidosis VI.  Gilger BC, Song L, Hasegawa T, Salmon JH, Bower JJ, Vridhachalam N, Collins E, Roberts D, Bagel J, Molony C, Vite C, Hirsch ML. PLoS One. 2025 Dec 5;20(12):e0338370. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0338370. eCollection 2025.
  PMID: 41348912 Free PMC article.     

Collaborations

COMPARATIVE, DIAGNOSTIC & POPULATION MEDICINE / LARGE ANIMAL CLINICAL SCIENCES

• Mycobacterium ulcerans ecovar infection in wild Kemp’s ridley Lepidochelys kempii and loggerhead Caretta caretta sea turtles.  Stacy BA, Ossiboff RJ, McNaughton AL, Boylan S, Michaels L, Torres J, Stacy NI, Harms CA, Souza A, Sampson K, Pate M, Schwenter JA, Godfrey M, Finn S. Dis Aquat Organ. 2025 Dec 4;164:163-174. doi: 10.3354/dao03884.
  PMID: 41342225     

COMPARATIVE, DIAGNOSTIC & POPULATION MEDICINE / SMALL ANIMAL CLINICAL SCIENCES

• Preoperative Computed Tomography Features as Predictors of Malignancy and Survival in Canine Adrenal Tumours.  Snell WL, Berger AC, Spoldi E, Dark MJ, Hurley ME, Suero MM, Farina LL, de Mello Souza CH, Bertran J, Maxwell EA. Vet Comp Oncol. 2025 Dec;23(4):589-596. doi: 10.1111/vco.70011. Epub 2025 Aug 21.
  PMID: 40841179