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Dorothy Ainsworth, DVM, PhD

Selected Publications (2003-present)

Ainsworth DM, Appleton JA, Eicker SW, Luce R, Flaminio MJ and Antczak DF. Exercise-induced alterations in mRNA levels of Th-1 and Th-2 associated cytokines of equine pulmonary and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Vet. Immunol. Immunopath. 91: 61-71, 2003.

Perkins GA, Nydam D, Flaminio MJ, Ainsworth DM. The utility of serum immunoglobulin M (IgM) concentrations for the diagnosis of lymphoma in healthy and sick adult horses. J. Vet. Intern. Med 17: 337-342, 2003.

Ainsworth DM, Grünig G, Matychak MB, Young JC, Erb HN and Antczak DF. Recurrent airway obstruction in horses is characterized by IFN-? and IL-8 production in bronchoalveolar lavage cells. Vet. Immunol. Immunopath. 96: 83-91, 2003.

Ainsworth DM and Hackett RP. The Respiratory System. In: Bayly W.M., Reed S., Sellon D., eds.: Equine Internal Medicine, W.B. Saunders, second edition 2004, pp289-353.

Ainsworth DM. Lower airway function of normal horses: Responses to exercise and training. In: Hinchcliff K, Kaneps AJ, Geor RJ., eds.: Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery, Elsevier Science Limited, Oxford, UK 2004 pp599-612.

Van Biervliet J, Kraus MS, Woodie B, Divers TJ, Gelzer AR, Ainsworth DM. Thoracoscopic pericardiotomy as a palliative treatment in a cow with pericardial lymphoma. J. Vet. Cardiol. 8: 69-73, 2006.

Ainsworth DM, Wagner B, Franchini M, Grünig G, Erb HN, Tan J-Y. Time-dependent alterations in IL-8 gene expression in the bronchial epithelium of horses with recurrent airway obstruction. Am. J. Vet. Res. 67:669-677, 2006.

Radcliffe CH, Woodie B, Hackett RP, Ainsworth DM, Erb HN, Mitchell L, Soderholm LV. A comparision of laryngoplasty and modified partial arytenoidectomy for treatment of experimentally induced laryngeal hemiplegia in exercising horses. Vet. Surg. 35: 643-52, 2006.

Slack J, Durando MM, Ainsworth DM, Reef VB, Jesty SA, Smith G, Birks EK. Non-invasive estimation of pulmonary arterial pressures in horses with recurrent airway obstruction. J. Vet. Intern. Med. 20: 757, 2006.

Gold JR, Perkins GA, Erb HN, Ainsworth DM. Cytokine profiles of peripheral blood mononuclear cells isolated from septic and healthy neonatal foals. J. Vet. Intern. Med. 21: 482-488, 2007.

Ainsworth DM, Wagner B, Erb HN, Young JC, Retallick D. Pulmonary mononuclear cells isolated from horses chronically affected with RAO do not exhibit a greater expression of interleukin-17, IL-23, IL-8, IL-1β and chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 2 (CXCL2) when exposed in vitro to hay dust. Am. J. Vet. Res. 68: 1361-1369, 2007.

Ainsworth DM. Lower airway function: responses to exercise and training. In: Hinchcliff KW, Kaneps AJ, Geor RJ, eds.: Equine Exercise Physiology. The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse. Saunders Elsevier, 2008 pp 193-211.

Ainsworth DM. Recurrent airway obstruction. In: Smith BP ed.: Large Animal Internal Medicine, Mosby Elsevier, 4th edition, 2008, pp 556-563.

Stokol T, Gold J, Johnson A, Ainsworth DM. Atypical cytological findings in pleural fluid isolated from a neonatal foal with pneumonia. Vet. Clin. Pathol. 37: 237-241, 2008.

DeLuca L, Erb HN, Young JC, Perkins GA, Ainsworth DM. The effect of adding oral dexamethasone to feed alterations on the airway cell inflammatory gene expression in stabled horses affected with recurrent airway obstruction (RAO). J. Vet. Intern. Med. 22: 427-435, 2008.

Burton AB, Wagner B, Erb HN, Ainsworth DM. Serum IL-6 and IL-10 concentrations in normal and septic neonatal foals. J. Vet. Intern. Med. 22:711, 2008.

Ainsworth DM and Cheetham J. The Respiratory System. In: Bayly W.M., Reed S., Sellon D., eds.: Equine Internal Medicine, W.B. Saunders, third edition (In press, 2008).

Perkins GA, Wagner B, Viel L, Hoffman A, Erb HN, Ainsworth DM. Histamine bronchoprovocation does not affect bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cytology, gene expression and protein concentrations of IL-4, IL-8 and IFN-ν. (In press Vet. Immunol. Immunopath., 2008).

Ainsworth DM, Matychak MB, Reyner CL, Erb HN, Young JC. Effects of in vitro exposure to hay dust on expression of three chemokines and three cell surface receptors in primary bronchial epithelial cell cultures established from horses with chronic recurrent airway obstruction. (In press, Am. J. Vet. Res., 2008).