by Richard Mellanby | Feb 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Richard Mellanby | Jan 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Richard Mellanby | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Richard Mellanby | Jun 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Professor Mellanby visited Phoenix this week to present some of the latest research from the VitDAL at the ACVIM Forum. He presented some recent data from VitDAL alongside Dr Jaffey from Midwestern University in a talk entitled ‘Vitamin D : a new role in...
by Richard Mellanby | May 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce that the VitDAL has been awarded DEQAS accreditation this week. This demonstrates that the lab offers a 25(OH)D assay which has a high degree of accuracy and performs within the Vitamin D External Quality Assessment Scheme (DEQAS)...
by Richard Mellanby | Apr 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
VitDAL published a case report this week which describes how the lab helped diagnose a case of profound hypovitaminosis D in Cocker Spaniel who presented to the Hospital for Small Animals with a history of a seizure. After further tests, we diagnosed a severe...
