Understanding of Equine Physiology
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Equids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 793
Special Issue Editors
Interests: endocrinology; metabolism; exercise physiology; animal physiology; equine performance; transport animals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: endocrinology; metabolism; exercise physiology; stress; animal physiology; transport animals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: animal physiology; equine athletic performance; horse neuroendocrinology; horse physiology; stress; exercise physiology; reproduction; transport animals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: animal biochemistry; metabolism; exercise physiology; animal physiology; equine athletic performance; serotoninergic system; transport animals
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Studies applied to the study of horse welfare and adaptive responses embrace different scientific areas. The adequate integration of a horse with its own means and the environment ensures welfare, satisfaction of essential needs (body care, locomotion, exploratory behaviour, home ranging, rest and social behaviour, and reproduction) and health. Adaptive changes maintain horse emotional, behavioral and functional homeostasis in challenging the effects of environment or managing stress. Stress conditions, including restraint, confinement, social isolation, space availability, exercise/training, rehabilitation, transport, and horse–human relationship, affect horse emotional and functional homeostasis as well as cognitive processes, through the interplay of functional and neuroendocrine systems. For this Special Issue, original manuscripts covering all aspects of the link between cognitive processes and the emotional and functional state, including the implication of sensory cues to increase social discrimination capacity, are invited. The focus is on the dependence of functional and neuroendocrine responses to stressors on collative factors, on the understanding of the influence of physical or mental stressors and the role of affective processes underpinning temperament and emotional reaction in horses. These may prove to be of the outmost importance in determining welfare, functional and reproductive performances, adaptive responses, discipline-specific performance and appropriate psychological state for competition and any horse utilization.
Prof. Esterina Fazio
Prof. Pietro Medica
Prof. Adriana Ferlazzo
Prof. Alida Ferlazzo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- equine behavior and welfare
- equine assisted interventions
- equine athletic performance
- equine neuroendocrinology
- equine physiology
- exercise physiology
- reproductive performance
- stress
- transport
- weaning
