A brand new learn about of melanosis coli which is an extraordinary darkening of the colon mucosa in pigs
27 December 2023
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A analysis paintings printed within the magazine Veterinary Pathology and performed by means of team of workers of the UCO analysis workforce “Animal Pathological Anatomy” (UCO-PIG) has gained the “Davis-Thompson Basis Veterinary Pathology Award 2022”, awarded by means of the basis Davis-Thompson for the most productive paintings printed in stated magazine in 2021.
The award, which used to be offered in November at the yearly assembly of the American Faculty of Veterinary Pathology in Boston, has valued the content material, presentation and importance within the box of veterinary pathology analysis.
Particularly, the object specializes in the learn about of melanosis coli, an extraordinary darkening of the colon mucosa, in pigs. In those animals, melanosis coli used to be came upon for the primary time in 2015. Then again, there may be lately little wisdom about its reasons, so the learn about lets in us to delve deeper into this box.
The usage of samples despatched from other slaughterhouses within the provinces of Granada and Malaga, the learn about recognized the possible reasons of the extraordinary darkish colour within the colon of pigs. Particularly, the paintings recognized the pigment lipofuscin as accountable for the darkish inexperienced colour of the intestinal mucosa. A number of the reasons associated with this situation, they detected that the degrees of sulfates within the consuming water of the affected animals exceeded the authorised limits. The pigs’ metabolism seems to give a contribution to the semblance of the unwanted colour, which has a really perfect financial affect for the agri-food sector associated with get entry to to export markets.
The paintings, titled “Melanosis Coli in Pigs Coincides With Prime Sulfate Content material in Ingesting Water,” has had the participation of researchers from the UCO-PIG workforce Irene Magdalena Rodríguez Gómez, Jaime Gómez Laguna, Inés Ruedas Torres, José M. Sánchez Carvajal and Librado Carrasco, who’s basic director of Analysis Making plans of the Govt of Andalusia. Further authors come with Ángel V. Garrido-Medina from the cattle corporate Piensos Jiménez S. L., and Gabino Roger-García from the Jisap corporate. The UCO-PIG workforce is finished by means of the researcher Francisco José Pallarés Martínez and the predoctoral fellows Fernanda Larenas Muñoz, Carmen Álvarez Delgado and Karola Fristiková.
Headline symbol: fFrom left to proper – Jaime Gómez Laguna, professor on the UCO and co-author of the paintings, Irene Magdalena Rodríguez Gómez, professor on the UCO and primary signatory of the object, Librado Carrasco Otero, present basic director of Analysis Making plans of the Board of Andalusia and final signatory of the paintings, Francisco José Pallarés Martínez, professor on the UCO. Additionally the predoctoral fellows from the UCO-PIG workforce Fernanda Larenas Muñoz, Carmen Álvarez Delgado and Karola Fristiková. In spite of everything, Inés Ruedas Torres, postdoctoral fellow of the UCO-PIG workforce and co-author of the object.