Radiographic closure time of appendicular growth plates in the Icelandic horse 英文参考文献.docVIP

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMedCentral Research Open Access Radiographic closure time of appendicular growth plates in the Icelandic horse Eric Strand*1, Linn Camilla Braathen1, Mia C Hellsten1, Lisel Huse-Olsen1 and Sigridur Bjornsdottir2 Address: 1Equine Teaching Hospital, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, P.O.Box 8146 Dep. N-0033 Oslo, Norway and 2Agricultural Authority of Iceland, Austurvegur 64, 800 Selfoss, Iceland Email: Eric Strand* - eric.strand@veths.no; Linn Camilla Braathen - linca.braathen@; Mia C Hellsten - miahellsten@simnet.is; Lisel Huse-Olsen - post@; Sigridur Bjornsdottir - systa@holar.is * Corresponding author Published: 17 July 2007 Received: 11 October 2006 Accepted: 17 July 2007 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2007, 49:19 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-49-19 This article is available from: /content/49/1/19 ? 2007 Strand et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The Icelandic horse is a pristine breed of horse which has a pure gene pool established more than a thousand years ago, and is approximately the same size as living and extinct wild breeds of horses. This study was performed to compare the length of the skeletal growth period of the primitive Icelandic horse relative to that reported for large horse breeds developed over the recent centuries. This information would provide practical guidance to owners and veterinarians as to when the skeleton is mature enough to commence training, and would be potentially interesting to those scientists investigating the pathogenesis of osteochondrosis. Interestingly, osteochondrosis has not been documented in the Icelandic horse. Methods: The radiographic closure time of the appendicular gro