Table of Contents

Contributors.Preface.Acknowledgments.1 Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Internal Environment.2 Pathophysiology of Cellular Regulation, Cell Death and Cancer.3 Host-Pathogen Interactions.4 Pathophysiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract.5 Pathophysiology of the Respiratory Tract.6 Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Disease.7 Pathophysiology of the Reproductive System.8 Pathophysiology of Muscle Disease.9 Pathophysiology of the Central Nervous System.Subsection 1: Infectious-Inflammatory Diseases of the Central Nervous System.Subsection 2: Pathophysiology of Non-Infectious Neurologic Diseases.Subsection 3: Mechanisms of Central Nervous System Homeostasis.10 Welfare, Stress, Behaviour and Pathophysiology.11 Pathophysiology of the Liver.12 Pathophysiology of Endocrin Homestasis, Examples.Subsection 1: Pathophysiology of Calcium-Phosphorus Metabolism and Bone.Subsection 2: Metabolic Disorders of Calcium-Phosphorus Homeostasis.Subsection 3: Pathophysiology of the Thyroid Gland.Subsection 4: Pathophysiology of the Endocrine Pancreas.13 Pathophysiology of Homeostatic and Toxic Disorders.Index

About the Author

Robert H. Dunlop, DVM, PhD is Professor Emeritus in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Charles-Henri Malbert, DVM is Director of Research at the Research Unit on Calf and Pig Production (UMRVP), a division of the Institute for Agriculture Research (INRA) in St. Gilles, France