Plasma metabolomic profiling of healthy pregnant mares and mares with experimentally induced placentitis

Metabolomics may represent an avenue for diagnosis of equine ascending placentitis.To characterise the plasma metabolomic profile in healthy mares and mares with induced ascending placentitis, with the goal of identifying metabolites with potential clinical value for early diagnosis of placentitis.Controlled in vivo experiment.Placentitis was induced in 10 late-term pregnant pony mares via Streptococcal equi subsp. zooepidemicus inoculation in...