Genetics and Precision Medicine: State of the Art Health Care for Cats
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
Release Date: 07/05/2016
WINNing Cats Feline Education Event
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
Join us at the first combined educational event in Timonium, MD on June 21, 2019 presented in collaboration between Winn Feline Foundation (Winn), The International Cat Association (TICA) and the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA).
info_outline
WINNing Cats Feline Education Event
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
Join us at the first combined educational event in Timonium, MD on June 21, 2019 presented in collaboration between Winn Feline Foundation (Winn), The International Cat Association (TICA) and the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA).
info_outline
WINNing Cats Feline Education Event
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
This podcast is presented by Dr. Jody Gookin, a distinguished professor at North Carolina State University. The first part of the presentation discusses bacterial causes, in particular E. coli, of diarrhea and mortality in kittens. The latter half of her talk covers information about the parasite, Tritrichomonas foetus, that causes large bowel diarrhea in kittens and cats. Dr. Gookin covers information about her research on these significant causes of diarrhea in cats.
info_outline
WINNing Cats Feline Education Event
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
This podcast is presented by Mr. Steve Dale, well-known radio personality and a Certified Behavior Consultant, discussing inappropriate elimination and the strategies to diagnose and treat this behavioral problem in cats. A discussion about the importance of environmental enrichment for the welfare of cats and as an approach to preventing or eliminating such behaviors.
info_outline
WINNing Cats Feline Education Event
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
This podcast features Dr. Emily Graff, a clinical pathologist specializing in neurologic disease, discussing inherited genetic neurologic disorders in cats and her work determining ways to treat and improve the lives of affected kittens and cats.
info_outline
WINNing Cats Feline Education Event
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
This podcast features Dr. Katie Lytle from Wisdom Health discussing how to understand and apply DNA panel testing to increase genetic fitness in cats.
info_outline
Winn Feline Foundation's 40th Annual Symposium-"Perplexing Paradigms of Feline Medicine, Part Two"
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
Despite its discovery over 50 years ago, the feline leukemia virus (FeLV) continues to challenge our thinking about the nature of the disease and our ability to diagnose the infection. Testing, vaccination, and segregating progressively infected cats remain effective practices to help control the spread of the disease. Results of this new research are helping to inform improvements in medical decisions and long-term patient care.
info_outline
Winn Feline Foundation 40th Annual Symposium - "Perplexing Paradigms of Feline Medicine"
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
Trichomonosis is a rapidly emerging infectious disease of cats that is caused by the parasite, Tritrichomonas foetus. Dr. Tolbert will discuss why infectious diarrhea such as that caused by T. foetus is such a concern for catteries and shelters. She will also share about her Winn-sponsored research investigating therapies for the treatment gastrointestinal ulceration in cats.
info_outline
Winn Feline Foundation 39th Symposium - "Ending FIP, Is There Hope?", Part Two
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
Dr. Niels Pedersen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis, discusses the current prospects for preventing and treating feline infectious peritonitis in cats. FIP has remained a major problem of cats for over five decades. We now understand where and how the virus that causes FIP mutates from the ubiquitous and otherwise innocuous feline coronavirus (FECV). However, we are only just beginning to untangle the complex virus, host and environmental factors that have the most effect on FIP incidence and how this knowledge can be...
info_outline
Winn Feline Foundation 39th Symposium - "Ending FIP, Is There Hope?", Part One
Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health
Join Steve Dale, Master of Ceremonies and Winn board member, as he introduces retiring Winn President Dr. Glenn Olah. Dr. Olah covers Winn's recent efforts and the funding of the largest single grant review in Winn's 50 year history. 11 research grants for a total of $214,017. Dr. Olah also introduces the incoming Winn President, Dr. Shila Nordone, and then the founder of the Bria Fund, Susan Gingrich. Susan covers the history and progress the Bria Fund has made in raising funds for FIP research. At the end, she is followed with a short presentation by Peter Cohen, Zen by Cat, owner of Smokey,...
info_outlineDr. Lyons presented a review of her work, then lead into a description of “Precision Medicine”, which is now available for humans, and its role in the future of feline medicine.
Gene-specific DNA-based tests for inherited diseases have been available for veterinary health care in cats for over 25 years. Now over 40 genes with nearly 70 DNA variants have been documented to cause phenotypic, disease or blood type variations. More recently, the entire genomes of dozens of cats have been sequenced, rapidly gleaning the genetic information that is controlling health and what an animal looks like. In the coming years, veterinarians will be performing whole genome screens of some kind as a routine component of a disease diagnosis. Whether for tumors or other diseases, the DNA results will routinely direct future therapies.