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The Other End of the Leash: An Experimental Test to Analyze How Owners Interact with Their Pet Dogs
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2017
This article presents eight different experimental tasks, mirroring the everyday life of dogs and owners, used to analyze how owners interact with their dogs in a standardized way. The tasks included both positive (e.g. play) and negative (potentially stressful) situations (e.g. physical restriction).
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Therapeutic Effectiveness of a Dietary Supplement for Management of Halitosis in Dogs
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2015
We describe a simple approach for diagnosis of halitosis in dogs as well as a dietary approach for its management. This protocol may be extended to the management of halitosis in humans in the near future.
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Training Dogs for Awake, Unrestrained Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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2019
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on unrestrained awake dogs is a new method with several advantages over imaging with physical or chemical restraint. This protocol introduces a cost-effective training method that minimizes training in the MRI environment, which can be expensive, and maximizes the subject pool available for canine functional MRI.
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Operating Procedures of the Electrochemotherapy for Treatment of Tumor in Dogs and Cats
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2016
Electrochemotherapy is the local treatment of solid tumors. The main mechanism is electroporation-mediated permeabilization of the tumor cells' membrane which enables increased internalization of cytostatics like bleomycin and cisplatin. Thus, antitumor effectiveness is potentiated at the site of the application of electric pulses to the tumors.
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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Impairing Effect of Emotion on Cognition
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2012
We present a protocol that allows investigation of the neural mechanisms mediating the detrimental impact of emotion on cognition, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. This protocol can be used with both healthy and clinical participants.
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The main distinction between imaging approaches is the type of information they emphasize. Magnetic resonance imaging uses magnetic fields and radio waves to show detailed brain anatomy. Functional MRI detects blood oxygenation changes associated with neural activity, whereas targeted tracers can track metabolism. Selecting among these approaches allows researchers to examine structure, activity, or metabolic patterns.
Functional MRI detects changes in blood oxygenation that are associated with neural activity while a dog responds to a stimulus or engages in a task. Researchers can then relate these activity patterns to behaviors such as learning, social interaction, or sensory processing. This provides a way to study links between neural responses and cognition in living animals.
Dog brain imaging can support investigations of responses to stimuli, learning, social interaction, and sensory processing. Each area poses a different question about how neural organization relates to behavior and cognition. For example, researchers may examine brain responses during social interaction or compare activity associated with learning-related experiences, extending behavioral observations with information from inside the brain.
A behavior-focused workflow begins by selecting a question, such as how a dog responds to a stimulus, learns, interacts socially, or processes sensory information. Researchers then choose an imaging approach suited to anatomy, neural activity, or metabolism and collect data from the living dog. The resulting images or activity measures are related to the behavioral question.
Beyond behavioral research, imaging can support veterinary assessment of neurological disorders by showing relevant features of the brain in living dogs. Anatomical images may contribute structural information, while functional or metabolic approaches can provide complementary evidence about activity. This makes imaging useful when researchers or veterinary professionals need information that behavioral observation alone cannot provide.
Studies in dogs can inform research on comparative brain function by relating canine neural organization and activity to behavior and cognition. The same noninvasive imaging framework also contributes to animal-welfare research by enabling investigation of social interaction, sensory processing, and responses to stimuli in living animals. These applications connect brain measurements with broader questions about how dogs experience and respond to their environments.