The aim of the current thesis was to investigate Osteochondrosis dissecans (OCD) in Norwegian warm-blooded horses and explore potential genetic and epi-genetic influences on this disease. A review of the literature ...

Scrapie is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of sheep and goat, which belongs together with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of humans, to the group of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. ...