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Comparative Medicine

Disorders Linking Humans with Their Animals

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Erika Jensen-Jarolim

    1. The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

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  • Provides an overview on the pathophysiology of common diseases in human and selected model animals

  • Introduces new concepts in comparative medicine

  • Critically discusses the need of animal experimental models for understanding the molecular mechanisms of human diseases

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Failure in Cardiac Action: Comparing Humans, Dogs, Cats, and Horses

    • Claudia Stöllberger, Mateo Markovic
    Pages 1-12

  3. Epilepsy in Humans and Animals: From Patients to Disease Models

    • Josef Finsterer, Akos Pakozdy, Monika Bradl
    Pages 13-25

  4. Chronic Kidney Failure Affects Humans and Other Mammalians

    • Renate Kain, Maximilian Pagitz
    Pages 27-46

  5. Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Humans, Pets, and Horses

    • Franziska Roth-Walter, Sonja Berger, Nicole Luckschander-Zeller
    Pages 47-69

  6. Out of Breath: Asthma in Humans and Their Animals

    • Karin Hufnagl, Reinhard Hirt, Bruno Robibaro
    Pages 71-85

  7. Comparing Two Major Bone Pathologies in Humans and Companion Animals: Osteoporosis and Hyperparathyroidism

    • Wolfgang Sipos, Ursula Föger-Samwald, Peter Pietschmann
    Pages 87-96

  8. Life Out of Balance: Stress-Related Disorders in Animals and Humans

    • Lisa Maria Glenk, Oswald David Kothgassner
    Pages 97-107

  9. Allergies, with Focus on Food Allergies, in Humans and Their Animals

    • Isabella Pali-Schöll, Ina Herrmann, Erika Jensen-Jarolim, Christine Iben
    Pages 109-129

  10. Allergic and Atopic Eczema in Humans and Their Animals

    • Erika Jensen-Jarolim, Ina Herrmann, Lucia Panakova, Jozef Janda
    Pages 131-150

  11. Prophylactic Vaccination Against Papillomavirus-Induced Tumour Disease

    • Sabine Brandt, Edmund Hainisch
    Pages 151-165

  12. Tick Bites and Borrelia Infection: A Problem for Mammalian Species

    • Gerold Stanek
    Pages 167-175

  13. Parasitic Infections in Humans and Animals

    • Julia Walochnik, Herbert Auer, Anja Joachim
    Pages 177-189

  14. Comparing Human Breast Cancer with Canine Mammary Cancer

    • Emir Hadzijusufovic, Michael Willmann
    Pages 191-207

  15. Regulatory Animal Testing for the Development of Medicines

    • Günter Waxenecker, Regina Binder
    Pages 209-218

  16. One Health: Many Patients? A Short Theory on What Makes an Animal a Patient

    • Herwig Grimm, Martin Huth
    Pages 219-230
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About this book

This book highlights the most significant diseases for humans and their dogs, cats and horses. The examples discussed, which include allergies, osteoporosis, cancer and many more, illustrate that humans and their companion animals may in fact develop similar diseases.

The reader - whether expert or interested lay - can thus directly compare between human and animal patients. The animal patient thereby represents a natural disease model, which besides the experimental models, is urgently needed to improve the therapeutic options for both humans and animals.

Reviews

“Covering a subset of diseases that occur in humans and animals, this book compares disease presentation, diagnosis, and therapy focusing on dogs, cats, horses, and humans. … The purpose is to provide a link between clinical and veterinary disciplines to expand how we look at different diseases. … This book would be most useful for medical or veterinary students, residents, practitioners, and research faculty. … On the whole, the goal of this book is achieved.” (Sarah Freemantle, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

    Erika Jensen-Jarolim

About the editor

Prof. Erika Jensen-Jarolim is head of the Dept. of Pathophysiology of the Medical University Vienna. She holds an MD and is specialized in pathophysiology and immunology. Based on her active interest in comparative oncology she since 2008 is councilor of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Her research is dedicated to comparative strategies in order to simultaneously speed up diagnostic and therapeutic developments for human and animal patients, especially in the allergy and oncology fields.

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