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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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    STUDIES ON SURGICO-THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT OF CORNEAL ULCER IN DOGS
    (DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY SURGERY AND RADIOLOGY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) PATEL KRUNAL P.; Dr. P. V. Parikh
    In present study, the incidence and surgico-therapeutic management of corneal ulcer was studied from March 2019 to February 2020. A total of 5129 dogs were presented with several ailments at the Veterinary Clinical Complex, Veterinary College, AAU, Anand. Among them 4.28 percent (n= 220) dogs were found to be affected with various ocular affections and 0.64 percent (n=33) dogs were diagnosed with corneal ulcer. Out of 220 cases of ocular affections, the highest cases of corneal melanosis (25%,55 cases), followed by corneal ulcer (16.81%, 33 cases) and cataract (13.63%, 30 cases) were observed. Higher incidences of corneal ulcer were seen in Pug breed and age wise distribution indicate a high prevalence of corneal ulcer in younger dogs (age group of 1 to 5 years). Sex wise distribution indicate that more males were affected than the females. The main causative factors were found to be as trauma followed by keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) and common symptoms noticed like corneal oedema, pain, conjunctival hyperaemia, epiphora, pawing, blepharospasm and photophobia. It was observed that the highest incidence of ulcers located centrally followed by dorso-nasal.
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    CLINICOPHYSIOLOGICAL AND HAEMATOBIOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF KETAMINE, PROPOFOL AND SEVOFLURANE ANAESTHESIA IN DEXMEDETOMIDINE PREMEDICATED DOGS
    (DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY SURGERY & RADIOLOGY, COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE & ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2019) PAL ITISHA ANANDBHAI; Dr. P. V. PARIKH
    Twelve apparently healthy clinical cases of dogs were randomly divided in two groups (A and B) having six dogs in each group. After five minutes of atropine administration (0.04 mg/kg b.wt., SC) all the dogs were sedated with dexmedetomidine (10 μg/kg b.wt. IM). Fifteen min later general anaesthesia was induced by ketamine (IV till effect) in group A and by propofol (IV till effect) in group B. All the animals were maintained on sevoflurane anaesthesia after endotracheal intubation.