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College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

# overview
My research interests involve the pathogenesis of kidney disease and investigation of novel biomarkers in dogs and cats with chronic kidney disease and their relation to conventional measures of renal function. In our lab, we are actively exploring urinary proteins, mRNAs, and miRNAs in dogs with naturally occurring glomerular disease in order to determine their ability to serve as early markers of renal disease, specific markers of certain types of renal disease and disease progression, and targets for novel therapies. Our goal is to improve our understanding of the development and progression of kidney disease and to develop and validate testing methods in order to more effectively diagnosis and monitor renal disease in companion animals and humans.

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Associate Department Head for Clinical Services

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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln - (Lincoln, United States)

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Cornell University - (Ithaca, New York, United States)

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WEEK-TO-WEEK VARIABILITY OF IOHEXOL CLEARANCE, SERUM CREATININE, AND SYMMETRIC DIMETHYLARGININE IN DOGS WITH STABLE CHRONIC RENAL DISEASE

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New Frontiers: Approaches to Understand the Mechanistic Basis of Renal Toxicity.

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Evaluation of a catalase-based urine test for the detection of urinary tract infection in dogs and cats.

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Symmetric Dimethylarginine Assay Validation, Stability, and Evaluation as a Marker for the Early Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease in Dogs.

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What is your diagnosis? Unusual urinary crystals from a cat.

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RNA-seq of serial kidney biopsies obtained during progression of chronic kidney disease from dogs with X-linked hereditary nephropathy.

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What's your diagnosis? Skin impression smear from a Bearded Dragon.

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Prevalence of immune-complex glomerulonephritides in dogs biopsied for suspected glomerular disease: 501 cases (2007-2012).

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X-Linked Alport Dogs Demonstrate Mesangial Filopodial Invasion of the Capillary Tuft as an Early Event in Glomerular Damage.

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CORRELATION OF SYMMETRIC DIMETHYLARGININE WITH GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE IN DOGS WITH CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE RENAL DISEASE

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Proteomic analysis of urine from male dogs during early stages of tubulointerstitial injury in a canine model of progressive glomerular disease.

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Expression profiling of disease progression in canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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Urinary biomarkers of renal disease in dogs with X-linked hereditary nephropathy.

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Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing unit TcIV implicated in a case of acute disseminated canine Chagas disease.

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Traditional Renal Biomarkers and New Approaches to Diagnostics.

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ASVCP guidelines: Allowable total error hematology.

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COMPARISON OF URINE SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE-POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (SDS-PAGE) WITH RENAL HISTOLOGIC FINDINGS IN DOGS WITH RENAL DISEASE

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Sodium hypochlorite bleach ingestion in two dogs

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SURFACE ENHANCED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION (SELDI) ANALYSIS OF URINE FROM MALE DOGS IN EARLY STAGES OF PROGRESSIVE TUBULOINTERSTITIAL INJURY DUE TO X-LINKED HEREDITARY NEPHROPATHY

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ASVCP guidelines: allowable total error guidelines for biochemistry.

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Safety of masitinib mesylate in healthy cats.

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An atypical case of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a young English Mastiff.

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Abnormal Expression of miR-21 in Kidney Tissue of Dogs With X-Linked Hereditary Nephropathy: A Canine Model of Chronic Kidney Disease.

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Correlation of Urine and Serum Biomarkers with Renal Damage and Survival in Dogs with Naturally Occurring Proteinuric Chronic Kidney Disease.

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Characterization of the genetic basis for autosomal recessive hereditary nephropathy in the English Springer Spaniel.

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Effects of dietary protein content on renal parameters in normal cats.

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Urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin concentration changes after acute haemorrhage and colloid-mediated reperfusion in anaesthetized dogs.

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Comparison of the performance of the IDEXX SediVue Dx with manual microscopy for the detection of cells and 2 crystal types in canine and feline urine.

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Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast in three dogs.

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Oral delivery of nanoparticle urolithin A normalizes cellular stress and improves survival in mouse model of cisplatin-induced AKI.

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Serum 1-proteinase inhibitor concentrations in dogs with exocrine pancreatic disease, chronic hepatitis or proteinuric chronic kidney disease.

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Characteristics associated with bacterial growth in urine in 451 proteinuric dogs (2008-2018).

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Correlation of electrophoretic urine protein banding patterns with severity of renal damage in dogs with proteinuric chronic kidney disease.

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Is Progressive Chronic Kidney Disease a Slow Acute Kidney Injury?

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Evaluation of biomarkers of kidney injury following 4% succinylated gelatin and 6% hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 administration in a canine hemorrhagic shock model.

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De novo expression of human leukocyte antigen-DR (HLA-DR) and loss of beta-catenin expression in tubular epithelial cells: a possible event in epithelial-mesenchymal transition in canine renal diseases.

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Chapter 22 Blood and bone marrow toxicity

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X-Linked Hereditary Nephropathy in Navasota Dogs: Clinical Pathology, Morphology, and Gene Expression During Disease Progression.

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EFFECTS OF THE LEVEL OF DIETARY PROTEIN ON RENAL INDICES IN NORMAL ADULT CATS

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Masitinib-associated minimal change disease with acute tubular necrosis resulting in acute kidney injury in a dog.

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Eosinophilic leukemia in three African pygmy hedgehogs ( Atelerix albiventris) and validation of Luna stain.

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What is your diagnosis? Lingual mass in a dog.

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A next generation setup for pre-fractionation of non-denatured proteins reveals diverse albumin proteoforms each carrying several post-translational modifications.

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24 Male Reproductive Tract Prostate, Testes, Penis, and Semen

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Chapter 17 Blood and bone marrow toxicity

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Advances in the evaluation of canine renal disease.

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Comparison of RNA isolation and library preparation methods for small RNA sequencing of canine biofluids.

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Use of urinary biomarkers of renal ischemia in a lamb preclinical left ventricular assist device model.

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B-cell lymphoma with Mott cell differentiation in two young adult dogs.

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DNP-KLH Yields Changes in Leukocyte Populations and Immunoglobulin Isotype Use with Different Immunization Routes in Zebrafish.

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Day-to-Day variation of the urine protein: creatinine ratio in female dogs with stable glomerular proteinuria caused by X-linked hereditary nephropathy.

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Re-evaluating urine dipstick protein in dogs: when should you be concerned?

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Urinary protein and gene expression characterization and comparison with renal biopsy findings and clinical data in dogs with proteinuric renal diseases

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation - (Raleigh, North Carolina, United States)

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Characterization of Renal Disease in American Boxer Dogs

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American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation - (Raleigh, North Carolina, United States)

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Correlation of urine biomarkers with chronic renal disease progression in dogs

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Morris Animal Foundation - (Denver, Colorado, United States)

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Investigation of microRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers of chronic kidney disease in dogs

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American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation - (Raleigh, North Carolina, United States)

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Characterization of Kidney Disease in Dalmatians

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American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation - (Raleigh, North Carolina, United States)

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AAV2- CRiSPR/Cas9 preclinical trial on a naturally occurring ATS dog model

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Alport Syndrome Foundation - (Phoenix, Arizona, United States)

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FDA Vet-LIRN Site Application –Agrilife and the Texas  A&M University System

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United States Food and Drug Administration - (Silver Spring, Maryland, United States)

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MicroRNA profiling in dogs with chronic kidney disease caused by glomerular diseases

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American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation - (Raleigh, North Carolina, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Vet Med Pathobiology; 4467 TAMU

# organizations[]
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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"College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences"@en-US

# schools[]
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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"College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences"@en-US