As the quest continues for a better way to identify racehorses at risk for fatal injury, a study from the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center may provide scientists and veterinarians a roadmap of where to look. At a regularly scheduled meeting Oct. 22, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission received initial results from a study by Gluck researchers Dr. Allen Page and David Horohov looking at inflammatory messenger RNA markers. Messenger RNA (mRNA) provides the body realtime instructions to produce proteins in response to ongoing situations like inflammation.
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Thanks to funding provided by the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council (KEDRC), Page and Horohov are in the midst of a two-phase research project — the first looking at 21 different mRNA markers and the second using sequencing to measure approximately 21,000 mRNA markers. The second phase is still in progress, and Tuesday’s meeting focused on the results from the first phase.
Still much research to be done but this would be huge if the study yields the hoped for results.
From Paulick Report
