This heading has a major importance because it's with
the participation of everybody that Doctors will find the key to save
our Amstaffs. If you want to participate to researches into Cerebellum
Ataxia, it's easy.
If you have Internet, you can contact the Doctor
Blot by email. Otherwise, contact him by postal mail to the following
address.
Send him a mail with you dog's pedigree, asking him if he would be interrested
by a blood sample in the limits of the researches about cerebellum ataxia.Please,
be aptient waiting the answer, it can takes several days.
According to his answer, it may be necessary to make a blood sample. This
one will have to be made in "EDTA" tubes, join
a copy of you dog's pedigree, as its clinical
status at the moment of the sample (lack of symptoms of the disease,
or on the contrary shown symptoms, and in this case, which ones, when
they appeared...ask your veterinary to write this statuts). Send the whole
in "bulled" envelope to the following address :
| Doctors S. Blot et JL. Thibaud |
About the sitting of the M.R.I, that is an expensive examination, don't hesitate to contact us if you met difficulties to pay it : we always have the possiblity to send out a "Call for Solidarity".
Know that this examination is only usefull when the dog shows symptoms of cerebellum ataxia.
For futher informations, don't hesitate to contact :
- the secretary's office : 00 33 143 96 71 66
- the Doctor Blot by email : sblot@vet-alfort.fr
- the Doctor Blot or Thibaud by phone : 00 33 143 96 71 71 or by fax : 00 33 143 96 70 89
For people from the american continent, it's better to contact the Doctor Olby who works on researches into cerebellum ataxia in U.S.A. You can contact her, or her researches unit, with the following address :
Doctor N. Olby et Mme J. Burr |
At last, it's also possible to contact the Doctor Hanzlieck for the Europe, when you can't come in France :
Doctor David Hanzlieck |
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