Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers

Gretel Torres de la Riva; Benjamin L. Hart; Thomas B. Farver; Anita M. Oberbauer; Locksley L. McV. Messam; Neil Willits; Lynette A. Hart

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055937

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Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers

Gretel Torres de la Riva,

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America,
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Benjamin L. Hart ,

* E-mail: blhart@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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Thomas B. Farver,

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America,
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Anita M. Oberbauer,

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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Locksley L. McV. Messam,

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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Neil Willits,

Affiliation Statistics Laboratory, Department of Statistics, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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Lynette A. Hart

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America,
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Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers

Gretel Torres de la Riva,
Benjamin L. Hart,
Thomas B. Farver,
Anita M. Oberbauer,
Locksley L. McV. Messam,
Neil Willits,
Lynette A. Hart

Published: February 13, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055937

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