Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Pork Checkoff Research
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Animal Well-being
Providing humane on-farm handling tools to move non-ambulatory grow-finish pigs
Environment - Air
Cover crops, timing, and compaction: Evaluating practices to improve manure nitrogen management
Swine Health - General Disease
Development and evaluation of antibody detection methods in oral fluids for cost-effective and efficient surveillance and control of Senecavirus in swine population.
Swine Health - General Disease
Investigating the effect of stressors on Senecavirus A pathogenesis and the potential occurrence of the “carrier state” in sows
Human Nutrition
Metabolism of Vitamin K Forms in Fresh Pork
The objective of this study was to compare MKn concentrations in blood, tissue, and feces of mice given purified and food-based MKn to mice fed a VK-deficient (VKD, “control”) diet.
Human Nutrition
Metabolism of Vitamin K Forms in Fresh Pork
Public Health - MRSA
Bacteriophages as antimicrobials for the control of Staphylococcus aureus
Swine Health - PRRS
Adaptation of PRRSV to genetic modifications in CD163
Swine Health - General Disease
Efficacy of a novel intramammary vaccine delivery system for PEDV to decrease pre-weaning mortality and enhance mechanisms of immunity
Animal Well-being
The plasma and tissue pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in neonatal piglets.
Animal Well-being
