Recent Progress and Diagnostic Innovations in Veterinary Neuropathology: In Dedication to Professor Martí Pumarola on the Occasion of His Retirement
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 12104
Special Issue Editors
Interests: glioma; neuro-oncology; neurosurgery; onco-immunology; One Health; translational medicine; veterinary neurology
Interests: comparative neuropathology; neuromuscular diseases; neuro-oncology; veterinary neuropathology
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Dear Colleagues,
Veterinary neuropathology is essential in the diagnosis and understanding of diseases that affect the nervous system of animals. The field has expanded greatly over recent decades and a Special Issue focusing on its recent progress and diagnostic innovations will be published in Animals in honor of Professor Martí Pumarola on his retirement.
Professor Martí Pumarola is one of the pioneering pathologists that recently developed veterinary neuropathology into the increasingly established discipline of veterinary medicine it has become. He has published hundreds of papers on veterinary neuropathology and taught thousands of veterinary students during his years at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, inspiring many to specialize in this field. He is an outstanding teacher, and his courses attract veterinary neurology and pathology residents from around the world and have become a cornerstone in their specialty training. In light of his attached disciples, we dedicate this Special Issue to Professor Pumarola to show recognition of and gratitude for his great contribution to veterinary neurology and neuropathology.
The definitive diagnosis of most diseases in veterinary neurology requires a neuropathologic analysis of tissue, and advances in research and novel techniques have provided great insight into these diseases by elucidating their etiopathogenesis, facilitating improved characterization and classification, and identifying therapeutic targets. This enhanced understanding of diseases of the nervous system in domestic animals also feeds into comparative neuropathology and sets the foundation for translational research and one health medicine.
For this Special Issue, we are pleased to invite you to submit original research articles and reviews focusing on recent advances in veterinary neuropathology diagnostics, new and emerging diseases, the further characterization and classification of diseases of the nervous system of domestic animals and their molecular pathology and biology, the assessment of biomarkers in the clinical setting and for translational research, and the development and application of software in digital pathology. Case series or case reports on unique clinical presentations or novel diagnostic techniques will also be considered.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Roberto José-López
Dr. Jéssica Molín
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- companion animals
- comparative neuropathology
- degenerative disease
- digital pathology
- histopathology
- immune-mediated
- immunohistochemistry
- large animals
- molecular neuropathology
- neuromuscular
- neoplasia
- nervous system
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