Veterinary Pathology
Veterinary pathologists are doctors of veterinary medicine who specialize in the diagnosis of diseases through the examination of animal tissue and body fluids. As with medical pathology, veterinary pathology is divided in two branches, anatomical pathology and clinical pathology.
Veterinary pathologists are also critical participants in the drug discovery and development. Drug discovery is most often accomplished by testing for efficacy in animal models of disease such as arthritis. Drug discovery involves modification of chemical molecules to improve their biological characteristics of absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination (ADME) where veterinary toxicologic pathologists evaluate new candidate drugs for toxic effects in animals before they are tested on humans.
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