{"id":1134,"date":"2007-08-02T01:21:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2007-08-02T01:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T18:21:01","slug":"avocado-soybean-unsaponifiable-asu-extracts-earn-a-passing-grade-for-equine-osteoarthritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/avocado-soybean-unsaponifiable-asu-extracts-earn-a-passing-grade-for-equine-osteoarthritis\/","title":{"rendered":"Avocado Soybean Unsaponifiable (ASU) Extracts Earn a Passing Grade for Equine Osteoarthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avocado and soybean unsaponifiable (ASU) extracts&#8211;the fraction of oil that does not form soap after hydrolysis&#8211;are some of the newest joint products to grace the equine nutritional supplement shelves. The beneficial effects of ASU for horses with osteoarthritis were reported in a new study by David Frisbie, DVM, PhD and colleagues from the Gail Holmes Equine Orthopaedic Research Center at Colorado State University.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers evaluated ASU in horses with experimentally-induced osteoarthritis. This clinical trial concluded that ASU significantly reduced the severity of joint damage and significantly increased the synthesis of cartilage glycosaminoglycans (i.e., the &#8220;building blocks&#8221; of articular cartilage) in joints with osteoarthritis, compared to horses treated with a placebo.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=10105\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avocado and soybean unsaponifiable (ASU) extracts&#8211;the fraction of oil that does not form soap after hydrolysis&#8211;are some of the newest joint products to grace the equine nutritional supplement shelves. The beneficial effects of ASU for horses with osteoarthritis were reported in a new study by David Frisbie, DVM, PhD and colleagues from the Gail Holmes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}