2016 Baker Institute News: Model helps identify drugs to treat eye infections in cats
| dc.contributor.author | Baker Institute for Animal Health | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-18T18:23:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-18T18:23:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-07-19 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This news item from the Cornell Chronicle is about: t’s a problem veterinarians see all the time, but there are few treatments. Feline herpes virus 1 (FHV-1) is a frequent cause of eye infections in cats, but the drugs available to treat these infections must be applied multiple times a day and there is scant scientific evidence to support their use. Now scientists at the Baker Institute have developed a model system that can be used to test drugs for treating these eye infections, and early results have pointed to a new drug for treating FHV-1 that will soon head to clinical trials. The work is reported in the Journal of General Virology. “Herpes-induced cornea infections are a big problem in cats,” says Dr. Gerlinde Van de Walle, who led the study. Cats infected with FHV-1 will blink continuously, squint and have a teary, sore-looking eye or eyes. “If not treated, FHV-1 infection can eventually lead to blindness,” she says. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/52160 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine | |
| dc.subject | Cornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine -- Periodicals. | |
| dc.subject | James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health -- Periodicals | |
| dc.subject | Van de Walle, Gerlinde | |
| dc.subject | Cornell Chronicle | |
| dc.subject | Buckley, Merry R. | |
| dc.title | 2016 Baker Institute News: Model helps identify drugs to treat eye infections in cats | |
| dc.type | article |