A research and diagnostic laboratory specialising in Vitamin D biology research in companion, production and wild animals
Vitamin D Animal Laboratory (VitDAL)
Led by Professor Richard Mellanby, we explore the relationship between vitamin D, inflammation and health outcomes in companion, farm and wild animals.
Research
VitDAL is based in the Roslin Institute and the Queen’s Medical Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh and brings together expertise in clinical veterinary endocrionology and nutrition, proteomics and immunology with the overarching ambition of advancing understanding of vitamin D biology in all species.
Assay Service
The VitDAL have developed an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS) assay to accurately key vitamin D metabolites in serum and plasma.
Latest News
VitDAL paper explores relationship between total and ionised calcium
A recently published paper by VitDAL has examined the relationship between total and ionised calcium in both healthy and hospitalised ill dogs. The team were able to define an accurate reference range for ionised and total calcium from the healthy dogs and then...
VitDAL develops novel vitamin D metabolite assays
The VitDAL team have published an important paper this week which describes a novel technique to measure total 25(OH)D and 3-epi-25(OH)D in dog serum. An important finding of this work was that the 3-epi-25(OH)D concentrations were relatively low compared to the total...
VitDAL presents at the Scottish Biomedical Postdoctoral Researcher Conference
Last week, Dr Emma Hurst, lead postdoctoral scientist in the VitDAL visited Glasgow to present at the 5th Scottish Biomedical Postdoctoral Researcher Conference (SBPRC). SBPRC is a unique networking platform for postdocs belonging to diverse areas of biomedical...