GADVASU awarded project on Laminitis

Laminitis is a herd problem of dairy animals with serious implications on production and reproduction of animals.

Laminitis is a herd problem of dairy animals with serious implications on production and reproduction of animals. About 90-99 per cent cases of lameness in dairy animals occur due to foot lesions. It can cause a 10 per cent decrease in milk yield,about 40 days increase in calving to conception period and inter-calving period may be extended by over two months. On the other hand foot lesions cause severe pain and discomfort to the animals,so lameness is considered an issue of animal welfare.

Nutrition,calving and management have been observed as major predisposing factors during recent studies,but the exact pathogenesis of lameness is still in developmental stage.

Keeping in view the incomplete understanding of complex patho-physiology of laminitis,Veterinary Scientists initiated work to tackle this problem. A research project under Major research scheme of University Grant Commission (UGC) has been awarded to Dr R S Sethi,Associate Professor,School of Animal Biotechnology,Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University,Ludhiana as Principal Investigator and Dr Swarn Singh Randhawa,Dr Opinder Singh and Dr Simrat Sagar Singh as Co-Investigators.

Dr S N S Randhawa,Director of Research,GADVASU,informed that a research grant of Rs 10.41 lacs for the research project entitled Characterisation and ultra-structural details of endotoxin induced laminitis in buffalo calf model has been sanctioned by UGC. Dr Sethi,Principal Investigator,elaborated that the approved project will focus on the gross,histo-pathological and ultrastructural changes in hooves after endotoxin infusion in buffalo to explore the patho-physiology of laminitis.

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