Basic and Preclinical Sciences

Prof. Josip Kusak is a world-renowned expert on large carnivores, especially wolves. In addition to many other projects, he has been conducting research in Turkey as a visiting scientist at KOC University since 2011.  The University of Utah (Salt Lake City), with our Prof. Kusak is also involved in this research.  Read about a day…

Within the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, services are provided related to teaching, scientific and professional work for the staff of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, as well as within the professional work for educational institutions, organizations of various profiles and museums. Histological laboratory In the Histological laboratory, histological preparations are made for the…

Mastitis (inflammation of the mammary gland) is recognized as the biggest threat to the health and productivity of dairy cows, and causes great economic damage in the production and processing of milk and dairy products. In most cases, only clinical mastitis is treated, while subclinical mastitis goes unnoticed causing great losses. While clinical mastitis is…

Metabolic syndrome refers to a combination of several metabolic risk factors including insulin resistance, central obesity, dyslipidaemia and hypertension. Dysfunction of lipid metabolism is a key component in the development of metabolic syndrome and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome is strongly associated with the severity of obesity. Therefore, dietary intervention could be important strategy for…

Fascioloidosis is an invasive disease caused by the non-native European species of bisexual fluke Fascioloides magna. For now, it is possible to distinguish three types of final wild carriers of this fluke in Europe: typical (red deer and fallow deer), “dead end” (wild boar) and atypical (roe deer, mouflon and chamois). Although the appearance of…

The new Statute of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine established the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities. The newly established department consists of the Department of Physical Education and Health and the Department of Foreign Languages ​​with teachers employed in these organizational units, as well as the Department of Intellectual Skills and the Department of…

Students enrolled earlier in the year who took courses and completed the subject but did not pass the remedial colloquiums of the Department of Veterinary Biology can contact the email sarsenic@vef.hr (administrator) in order to be added to that course in Merlin of the current academic year for the possibility of insight into new dates…

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is a fatty acid that is highly concentrated in brain, cerebral cortex, skin, sperm, testicles and retina. The biochemical pathway for DHA synthesis was enigmatic for a long time and current model suggests that after the series of desaturation and elongation processes in endoplasmic reticulum C24:6n3 is synthesized, transported to the peroxisomal…

The Department of Pathophysiology has a hematology and biochemical laboratory as part of teaching, scientific and professional work. Laboratories provide services of hematological and biochemical tests of reptiles, birds and other exotic animals, which include determination and enumeration of blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes and thrombocytes), differential blood count, hematocrit and hemoglobin concentration. These services are…

Physiology and Radiobiology of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb has been actively involved in teaching, scientific research and professional work in the field of veterinary medicine for more than 90 years. In addition to the offices, lecture halls and experimental rooms also includes a laboratory for hematological and biochemical analyzes and a…

Proteins play essential roles in every cellular process. Biomarkers have the potential to identify key disease indicators at the individualised level, as well as to detect a disease at the early-stages before the development/advance of a serious illness. The emergence of innovative, post-genomic technology, like proteomics, led to the development of strategies aimed at identifying…

Scientists of the Unit of Physics, associate professor Ph.D. Selim Pašić (as corresponding author) and Ph.D. Nato Popara (as the first author) have published a scientific paper entitled “Considerations on static pressure gradients in closed circulatory systems” in the well-known American journal of physiology Physiological reports (IF 2.99) (https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi /10.14814/phy2.15983 ). In the paper, using the…

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb (FVM) is well established research institution in Croatia with more than 178 staff members who have excellent education and scientific experience. In order to conduct structural changes in veterinary medicine, scientists at FVM have accepted ERA Chair initiative, aiming at fostering structural changes, synergies between cohesion and research…

Veterinary Biology Department was established on May 20, 1942. The first head of the Department was prof. dr.  Zdravko Lorkovic. The obligation of Veterinary Biology  is to conduct and harmonize undergraduate, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, improvement of all forms of teaching, as well as the selection and promotion of staff participating in teaching. Classes are…