Impact of facial conformation on canine health: Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Packer, Rowena M A ^a   Hendricks, Anke ^a   Tivers, Michael S ^b   Burn, Charlotte C ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRACHYCEPHALIC OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY SYNDROME; BRACHYCEPHALY; BREEDING; BULLDOG; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL LENGTH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOG; DOG BREED; FACE; FACIAL CONFORMATION; FEMALE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MUZZLE LENGTH; NECK GIRTH; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE; PUG; RISK; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DOG DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SYNDROME; VETERINARY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FACE; FEMALE; MALE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME;

EID: 84949764185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137496     Document Type: Article

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