Blacksburg, Va. -- Jennifer Barrett, assistant professor of equine surgery at Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center, has been awarded a grant from the Morris Animal Foundation to ...

If an owner finds his or her horse in the field, a foreleg covered in blood from the knee down, the animal's tendons might not be the first concern. But as Robert L. Linford, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, a ...

A new study from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has identified that ageing causes a significant loss of blood vessels in the tendons of horses. This discovery offers vital insight into why older ...

In order to understand why and how these injuries occur, it is helpful to be familiar with the structures involved. Tendons are the straps of connective tissues that attach a muscle to other body ...

Tendons in high-stress and strain areas, like the Achilles tendon, actually repair themselves less frequently than low-stress tendons. This study sheds some light on the increased susceptibility of ...

A group of researchers including Queen Mary Professor Hazel Screen have been exploring what causes tendon damage in horses and have discovered that a particular region of the tendon called the ...

The discovery that ageing causes significant blood vessel loss in equine tendons could help identify horses at risk of injury and the best way to treat them. The Royal Veterinary College research ...

Treating equine donor stem cells with a growth factor called TGF-b2 may allow them to avoid 'tripping' the immune response in recipients, according to new research. Treating equine donor stem cells ...