Highlights of recent clinically relevant papers.

I This study by Sabine i Mann and co-workers I in the USA aimed to evaluate the role of oxidative stress, cholestasis, liver injury and infection with equine hepacivirus (EqHV) or equine parvovirus-hepatitis (EqPV-H) infection in racehorses with increased serum gamma-glutamyl i transferase (GGT) activity. Osteoarthritis prevention using MSCs I In this study i Lélia Bertoni and co-workers I in France evaluated allogeneic bone-marrow-derived and umbilical cord blood- derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to prevent the development of osteoarthritis (OA) in an equine model i . This study evaluated the ability of a single blinded intra- articular injection of allogeneic bone-marrow (BM) derived MSCs and umbilical cord blood (UCB) derived MSC to limit the development of OA-associated pathological changes compared to placebo in a post-traumatic OA model applied to all four fetlock joints of eight horses. [Extracted from the article]