by Richard Mellanby | Feb 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
A recent case report published by VitDAL highlighted the metabolic complications which can arise if dogs are fed a diet deficient in vitamin D. The dog presented with a very low ionised calcium and subsequent analysis by the VitDAL indicated that the serum had very...
by Richard Mellanby | Feb 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
VitDAL published a collaborative study with colleagues at SRUC which highlights the problem of rickets in Scottish hill sheep. The collaboration discovered that a significant number of sheep had very low serum concentrations of 25(OH)D and several had skeletal...
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...
by Richard Mellanby | Mar 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
VitDAL have published their latest paper today on vitamin D status in dogs with babaesia in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Babesiosis is a very important disease in dogs in South Africa and many other countries and is an...
by Richard Mellanby | Mar 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
VitDAL has published its latest research on the immune-modulating properties of vitamin D. We have explored the effects of the active vitamin D metabolite 1,25(OH)2D3 on bone marrow derived dendritic cells (BMDC) and discovered that CD31 was one of a small number of...
