Animals foreign animal diseases

Committee on Foreign Animal Diseases of the United States Animal Health Association. Foreign Animal Diseases. Revised 1998. Richmond, VA Pat Campbell Associates and Carter Printing Company, 1998. 

U.S. Animal Health Association (USAHA), 1998. The Gray Book Critical Foreign Animal Diseases Issues for the 2F Century, available at http //www.vet.uga.edu/vpp/gray book02/index.php (accessed September 3, 2007). 

Berry J D (2005). Rational monoclonal antibody development to emerging pathogens, biothreat agents and agents of foreign animal disease The antigen scale. Vet. J. 170 193-211. 

Cancer is a disease present in people and animals in which the stracture and normal function of body tissues are disrupted. The exact etiology of most types of cancer is unknown. However, it is well known that infections, environmental factors (chemical substances, foreign particles, radiation), and genetic factors can induce transformation of normal cells to neoplastic cells, i.e. those that multiply and function abnormally. 

The nutritional status of an animal may affect the disposition of a foreign compound in vivo as well as the metabolism. Many drugs are protein-bound in the plasma, and alteration of the extent of binding for compounds extensively bound may have important toxicological implications. Thus, the decreased plasma levels of albumin after low-protein diets, such as occur in the human deficiency disease Kwashiorkor, might lead to significantly increased plasma levels of the free drug and therefore the possibility of increased toxicity. 

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