Clinical Pathology

Clinical Pathology is used to diagnose diseases and increase the knowledge of pathogenesis in various diseases.

The sub-areas include haematology, endocrinology, clinical chemistry and cytology, as well as quality assurance/method development/validation of diagnostics used in clinical pathology.

Current research

Our current research focuses on diagnostic methods that are clinically relevant to animal health care. Current research areas include:

• Interference in antibody-based assays
• Circulating biomarkers for heart disease in cats
• IGF-I and diabetes in cats
• Inflammatory markers in dogs
• Biomarkers in reproductive endocrinology
• Improved diagnostic methods for haematology and urinanalysis
• Effect of glucocorticoids and endotoxin on clinical pathological variables.

Clinical Pathology SLU also has an important function with the develop­ment/ evaluation of new methods and examining the methods used in clinical patho­logical diagnostics.