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Senior Dogs
April 19, 2010
Hello Friends
It's starting to heat up here in Idaho. Hope everyone is enjoying spring weather. My topic this month is about the Senior Dogs smell.
An aging dog's decreased ability to smell may signal changes in her potential to learn and remember, a University of Pennsylvania researcher has found.
Scientist have long observed that, like humans, dogs sense of smell becomes duller in their senior years. Some dogs lose the ability to smell even the tastiest treat, because smell works together with cognitive function- such as dogs ability to recognize their owners and researchers suspected a correlation between the sense of smell and some age related changes in the brain
In the study led by Karen L Overall VMD PHD and funded by Morris Animal Foundation investigators learned that neurons in olfactory tissue from dogs.........the only neutrons in the body that are directly accessible........... were relatively easy to obtain and examine. They believe this research may lead to greater understanding of how dogs age and specifically which other neurological functions may be mirrored in a dogs nose.
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