Osteochondrosis is defined as a focal disturbance in endochondral ossification. The
cartilage superficial to an osteochondrosis lesion can fracture, giving rise to fragments in …

The horse reference genome from the Thoroughbred mare Twilight has been available for a
decade and, together with advances in genomics technologies, has led to unparalleled …

It has been more than 125 years since German-born, Franz Konig 1 first described and
coined the term osteochondritis dissecans (OCD). 1, 2 Since its early characterization, OCD …

Osteochondrosis (OC) is the most common developmental orthopaedic disease in horses
and represents a major problem to the horse industry. The complete mechanism of this …

Failure of the cartilage canal blood supply leads to ischemic chondronecrosis which causes
osteochondrosis, and osteochondral lesions. Osteochondrosis is a disease with a heritable …

Reasons for performing study: Developmental orthopaedic diseases (DOD) such as
osteochondrosis (OC)/osteochondrosis dissecans (OCD), palmar/plantar osteochondral …

Many horses, just before and during their athletic career, show vertical movement
asymmetries, to the same degree as clinically lame horses. It is unknown whether these …

Osteochondrosis (OC), a disturbance in the process of endochondral ossification, is by far
the most important equine developmental orthopaedic disease and is also common in other …

Hip as well as elbow dysplasia (HD, ED) are developmental disorders leading to
malformation of their respective joints. For a long time both disorders have been scored and …

Osteochondrosis arises as a result of focal failure of the blood supply to growth cartilage.
The current aim was to examine the pathogenesis of pseudocysts and true cysts in …