by Richard Mellanby | Jul 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Professor Richard Mellanby from the VitDAL was presenting research from the lab to veterinarians at the Scottish Vet Fair this weekend. The event was held at the picturesque Mar Lodge, Braemar in Royal Deeside. The event was a great opportunity to meet some of the...
by Richard Mellanby | Jul 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Prof Richard Mellanby from VitDAL was in Bologna this week at the European Society for Veterinary Endocrinology summer school. He presented at update on the lab’s recent research activities ranging from identification of novel vitamin D disorders in patients...
by Richard Mellanby | Jun 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Professor Richard Mellanby was invited to present the recent research findings from the VitDAL at the ACVIM conference this week which is one of the largest veterinary conferences in the world. Prof Mellanby presented an overview of recent work which ranged from case...
by Richard Mellanby | May 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Professor Richard Mellanby from VitDAL was invited to deliver two oral presentations at the 21st Workshop on Vitamin D which was held in Barcelona this week. He presented some recent work from the VitDAL including our studies on how vitamin D modulates the function...
by Richard Mellanby | Feb 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
The VitDAL have published their latest paper this week describing vitamin D receptor expression in dogs. Using immunohistochemistry we demonstrated that vitamin D receptor expression was highest in the kidney, duodenum, skin, ileum and spleen. The cells stained brown...
by Richard Mellanby | Dec 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
The VitDAL lab, in collaboration with colleagues at the Moredun Research Institute, has published a paper this week describing the effects of the active vitamin D metabolite 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D on bovine dendritic cells. We showed that dendritic cells generated in...
