Advances in Equine Neonatal Care

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Animals is aimed at providing open access availability to the latest information for clinicians and investigators regarding intensive and critical care of sick equine neonates. Equine neonatology is of special interest to many of our most talented veterinarians, and we will tap into their expertise and expanded knowledge base to publish both broad and specific review articles, original hypothesis-driven research, retrospective studies of interest and case series that introduce new topics or problems. The goal of this special focus section is to provide a platform for scientists and clinical researchers to share recent advances in understanding equine newborn and neonatal disorders.

Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:

• The epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of equine newborn/neonatal sepsis and neonatal encephalopathy, including endocrine transitions
• Causes of and fetal/newborn problems associated with prematurity
• Renal transition from fetus to newborn to neonate
• Cardio-respiratory transition from fetus to newborn to neonate
• Gastrointestinal function in health and disease including studies of ‘gut closure’ and development of the GI microbiome

Dr. Pamela A. Wilkins
Dr. Annette Marie McCoy
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.