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ReviewThe veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice2013

Gastrointestinal disease in guinea pigs and rabbits.

Julie DeCubellis, Jennifer Graham

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Review in The veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Diseases of Pet Guinea Pigs (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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  6. Effects of Buprenorphine and Carprofen on Appetite in New Zealand White Rabbits (Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022
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  11. Frequency of Owner-Reported Bacterial Infections in Pet Guinea Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019
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  12. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019
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  13. ExNOTic: Should We Be Keeping Exotic Pets?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Julie DeCubellisDepartment of Zoological Companion Animal Medicine, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, MA 01536, USA.
Jennifer Graham
Tufts University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article reviews diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal diseases in guinea pigs and rabbits. The review includes established causes of gastrointestinal disease in these species. The authors highlight syndromes that may be considered emerging or less-recognized causes of gastrointestinal stasis, including gastric dilation and volvulus in guinea pigs and lead toxicity, colonic entrapment, and liver torsion in rabbits. Practitioners should recommend initial diagnostics, including radiographs and blood work on guinea pigs and rabbits presenting with nonspecific signs of gastrointestinal stasis, to better determine possible cause and make the best treatment recommendations.

Indexed as

Guinea PigsRabbitsAnimal FeedAnimalsGastrointestinal DiseasesGastrointestinal TractRodent DiseasesSpecies Specificity

Identifiers

PMID23642870
PMCPMC7128126
OpenAlexW2066437983

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Registered trials

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