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RVC Research Online is a repository of the research outputs produced by staff from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). The aims of the repository are (i) to provide an institutional archive of RVC's research outputs, (ii) to provide access to these outputs and support open science, and (iii) to increase the reach and impact of RVC's research.



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Porcupine inhibition is a promising pharmacological treatment for severe sclerosteosis pathologies (2025)
Journal Article
Dreyer, T., Keen, J., Wells, L., Hopkinson, M., Orriss, I., Holdsworth, G., Pitsillides, A., & Roberts, S. (2025). Porcupine inhibition is a promising pharmacological treatment for severe sclerosteosis pathologies. Bone Research, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41413-025-00406-3

Sclerosteosis, an ultra-rare disorder characterised by high bone mass (HBM) and skeletal overgrowth, leads to facial paralysis, hearing loss and raised intracranial pressure, which is currently managed only through high-risk surgery. Sclerosteosis is... Read More about Porcupine inhibition is a promising pharmacological treatment for severe sclerosteosis pathologies.

Cadaveric study of the ultrasound-guided inter-transversospinalis plane block in dogs for the cervical epaxial musculature region. (2024)
Journal Article
Herrera-Linares, M. E., Fernández-Parra, R., Zamora-Perarnau, C., Fernández-Salesa, N., Yaffy, D., & Sanchis-Mora, S. (2024). Cadaveric study of the ultrasound-guided inter-transversospinalis plane block in dogs for the cervical epaxial musculature region. Research in Veterinary Science, 180, 105427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2024.105427

Engaging communities in health promotion through community-based primary care and participatory research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia (2025)
Journal Article
Leyns, C., Ascarrunz, C., Rasguido, S., Rodriguez, P., Eid, D., & Guitian, J. (2025). Engaging communities in health promotion through community-based primary care and participatory research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia. Archives of Medical Research, 56(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcmed.2024.103154

Background. Most people in low- and middle-income countries work in the informal sector and lack social protection. In Bolivia, the unified family, community, and intercultural health model established universal health coverage for informal workers a... Read More about Engaging communities in health promotion through community-based primary care and participatory research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia.

Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics (2025)
Journal Article
Kraemer, M. U. G., Tsui, L.-H., Chang, S. Y., Lytras, S., Khurana, M. P., Vanderslott, S., Bajaj, S., Scheidwasser, N., Curran-Sebastian, J. L., Semenova, E., Zhang, M., Unwin, H. J. T., Watson, O. J., Mills, C., Dasgupta, A., Ferretti, L., Scarpino, S. V., Koua, E., Morgan, O., Tegally, H., …Bhatt, S. (2025). Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics. Nature, 638(8051), 623-635. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08564-w

Infectious disease threats to individual and public health are numerous, varied and frequently unexpected. Artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies, which are already supporting human decision making in economics, medicine and social sci... Read More about Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics.