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Equine Muscle Mass: Detecting and Monitoring Changes
November 15, 2024
⎯ Alisa Herbst, PhD
The muscle atrophy scoring system (MASS) was developed to detect reductions in muscle mass quickly and reliably.
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Keep Aging Horses Strong: Understand Muscle Mass and Protein
September 13, 2024
⎯ My Senior Horse Editors
Older horses can lose muscle mass as they age, especially with an underlying condition. Learn how horses build muscle.
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Muscle Atrophy Research in Horses and Ponies
July 5, 2024
⎯ Kimberly S. Brown
The MASS system showed that horses and ponies with PPID typically had more muscle atrophy than similarly aged animals without PPID.
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Body Condition Scoring: Body Condition Index and Other Techniques
June 11, 2024
⎯ Sarah Nelson
Different ways of monitoring body weight as well as condition are described in this article. For example the new body condition index (BCI) might provide a better way to judge your horse’s fat for some...
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