by Richard Mellanby | Apr 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Professor Richard Mellanby became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh this week. The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland’s National Academy and contributes to the social, cultural and economic wellbeing of Scotland through the advancement of learning...
by Richard Mellanby | Apr 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
VitDAL have published a recent paper this week investigating the role of vitamin D status on clinical outcomes in dogs undergoing elective surgical treatment of a ruptured cranial cruciate ligament. The research found that most dogs with a ruptured cruciate ligament...
by Richard Mellanby | Nov 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
VitDAL published a new paper this week which explored the genetic and host factors which influenced vitamin D status in a well studied cohort of Kenyan calves as part of the IDEAL study. Working with epidemiologists in Roslin and the International Livestock Research...
by Richard Mellanby | Oct 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Vitamin D status is often low in ill patients but it remains poorly understood if this is a cause or consequence of the illness. To explore this issue further, colleagues in VitDAL teamed up with the orthopaedic service at HfSA to measure inflammatory biomarkers and...
by Richard Mellanby | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
The VitDAL team, along with other colleagues from the world leading QMRI mass spectrometry facility, recently published an overview of vitamin D metabolism in veterinary species. The review provided a contemporary and state-of-the-art review of vitamin D metabolite...
