Research collaboration and lecturer at the postgraduation discipline Critical Investigation on Clinical and Experimental Pain Evaluation and Pain Treatment in Animals

• Grant number: 10/12543-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: November 15, 2010
• End date: November 29, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Clinics and Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Stelio Pacca Loureiro Luna
• Grantee: Stelio Pacca Loureiro Luna
• Visiting researcher: Alexander Valverde
• Visiting researcher institution: University of Guelph, Canada
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The visiting researcher Dr. Alex Valverde will come to Brazil to participate as a collaborator in research projects developed in this unit: Validation of clinical scale for assessing pain in horses (FAPESP Process 2010/00786-6 by PhD student Marilda Onghero Taffarel) and antinociceptive effect, gastrointestinal and spontaneous locomotor activity of intravenous methadone in horses (FAPESP Process 2008/56658-6 by MsC student Flavia Augusta de Oliveira).Additionally, Dr. Alex Valverde will minister discipline of special topics on the theme of "Terapia Antálgica em Medicina Veterinária" at the PG program(program schedule and discipline attached). (AU)