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A survey of the impact of owning a service dog on quality of life for individuals with physical and hearing disability: a pilot study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
Background Quality of life refers to a person’s experienced standard of health, comfort and happiness and is typically measured using subjective self-report scales.
Sophie S. Hall, Jessica MacMichael, Amy Turner, Daniel S. Mills   +3 more
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Region Specific miRNA–mRNA Networks in Gray and White Matter Lesions of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. This study aimed to identify micro‐RNA (miRNA)–mRNA regulatory networks underlying region‐specific molecular mechanisms in white matter and gray matter lesions in progressive MS.
Adya Sapra, Nagendra K. Rai, Timothy D. Niepokny, Haley Courtney, Ajai Tripathi, Ranjan Dutta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of service dogs on veterans’ romantic partners and relationships: A preliminary mixed-methods study

Human-Animal Interactions
Romantic partners are often key supports for veterans diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, a PTSD diagnosis among veterans is often associated with lower relationship satisfaction and quality.
Williamson L., Rath G., Arisman K., Moss J., Dell C.A.   +4 more
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Augmenting and Assaying Nav1.1 Protein Quantity for Dravet Syndrome Therapy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dravet Syndrome (DS) is a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy predominantly caused by heterozygous loss‐of‐function variants in SCN1A, which encodes Nav1.1. Conserved upstream open reading frames (uORFs) in SCN1A were validated to regulate translation in reporter assays, demonstrating the therapeutic viability of increasing Nav1.1 from ...
Aiswarya Saravanan, Jordan Safran, Anna Loughman, Grace Lin, Shivanshi Vaid, Dana Allababidi, Peter M. Tessier, Louis T. Dang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Diversity of Consumer Experiences with Navigating Canada’s Service Dog Industry

Social Sciences
The lack of publicly available demographic and prevalence data on service dog (SDog) teams in Canada challenges our understanding of how and to what degree limited industry regulations, unharmonized standards, differing pathways to acquiring an SDog, and
Linzi Williamson, Randy C. Duncan, Grace Rath, Aliegha Dixon, Christina Chandler, Colleen Anne Dell   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Dried Plasma Spot‐Based Quantification of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein as a Disease‐Associated Biomarker in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) measured in dried plasma spots versus conventional plasma‐ and serum‐GFAP testing for assessment of disease severity in aquaporin‐4 immunoglobulin G–positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4‐IgG+ NMOSD).
Felix Wohlrab, Evelyn Alvarez, Roua Hamdi, Bingqing Zhang, Hayeun Ji, Niyati Jhaveri, Patrick Schindler, Pedro Sanchez, Pia S. Sperber, Tanja Schmitz‐Hübsch, Frederike C. Oertel, Nisa Vorasoot, Najib Kissani, Falko Böhringer, Jens Kuhle, Anne‐Katrin Pröbstel, Xiao‐Jun Ma, Péter Körtvelyessy, Patrick Waters, Friedemann Paul   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remission of histiocytic ulcerative colitis in Boxer dogs correlates with eradication of invasive intramucosal Escherichia coli [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Historically, histiocytic ulcerative (HUC) (or granulomatous) colitis of Boxer dogs was considered an idiopathic immune-mediated disease with a poor prognosis. Recent reports of dramatic responses to enrofloxacin and the discovery of invasive
Dogan, B., Nicholls, P.K., Simpson, K.W., Davies, D.R., James, F.E., MacDonough, S.P., Mansfield, C.S., Craven, M., O'Hara, A.J.   +8 more
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Modeling Progressive Brain Volume Losses in Chronic Moderate Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Extensive, but Attenuating

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Progressive brain atrophy has now been widely observed in the chronic stages of moderate–severe traumatic brain injury (msTBI), but there is only coarse information regarding its prevalence and magnitude, and whether rate of atrophy accelerates or attenuates across time. We examined these questions in a Canadian inception cohort from
Robin E. A. Green, Brenda Colella, Alana Changoor, David J. Mikulis, Adrienne Li, Kadeen Johns, Georges A. Monette   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intervertebral disc degeneration in dogs [PDF]

, 2010
Back pain is common in both dogs and humans, and is often associated with intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration. The IVDs are essential structures of the spine and degeneration can ultimately result in diseases such as IVD herniation or spinal ...
Bergknut, Niklas
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Parkinson Disease Subtype Stability and Eventual Convergence

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Previous research identified distinct Parkinson disease (PD) clinical subtypes of “Motor Only,” “Psychiatric & Motor,” and “Cognitive & Motor” based on comprehensive, multidomain classification. Whether these subtypes reflect distinct trajectories or progressive disease stages remains unknown.
Laura M. Rosok, Christina N. Lessov‐Schlaggar, Abdulmunaim M. Eid, Erin R. Foster, Baijayanta Maiti, Hailee Domash, Helen Hwang, Richard J. Perrin, Paul T. Kotzbauer, Joel S. Perlmutter, Meghan C. Campbell   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source