STUDIES ON DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN DOGS
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2008
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Karnataka Veterinary Animal And Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar
Abstract
Canine Dermatology is a major and demanding area of small animal practice. The skin is the largest organ of the body and the anatomic and physiologic barrier between animal and environment. It provides protection from physical, chemical, and microbiological injury, and its sensory components perceive heat, cold, pain, pruritus, touch, and pressure. In addition, the skin is synergistic with internal organ systems and thus reflects pathologic processes that are either primary elsewhere or shared with other tissues. Not only is the skin an organ with its own reaction patterns, it is also a mirror reflecting the milieu interieur and, at the same time, the capricious world to which it is exposed.