Adelene Wong

Catastrophic Musculoskeletal Injuries in Thoroughbred Racehorses in Uruguay, 2011-2017

Nicholas H Bimson, Ashleigh V Morrice-West, Adelene SM Wong, Peta L Hitchens, Maria R Rocca, Chris Whitton

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF EQUINE VETERINARY SCIENCE

Catastrophic musculoskeletal injuries (CMI) pose a major welfare concern to horses and their riders, yet limited data are availabl..

Changes in Thoroughbred speed and stride characteristics over successive race starts and their association with musculoskeletal injury

Adelene SM Wong, Ashleigh Morrice-West, R Chris Whitton, Peta L Hitchens

Journal article  |  2022  |  EQUINE VETERINARY JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: Certain stride characteristics have been shown to affect changes in biomechanical factors that are associated with inj..

Association of Thoroughbred Racehorse Workloads and Rest Practices with Trainer Success

Ashleigh V Morrice-West, Peta L Hitchens, Elizabeth A Walmsley, Adelene SM Wong, R Chris Whitton

Journal article  |  2021  |  ANIMALS

Understanding the relationship between the training practices of Thoroughbred racehorses and race performance is important to ensu..

Microstructural properties of the proximal sesamoid bones of Thoroughbred racehorses in training

Babatunde A Ayodele, Peta L Hitchens, Adelene SM Wong, Eleanor J Mackie, R Christopher Whitton

Journal article  |  2020  |  EQUINE VETERINARY JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: Proximal sesamoid bone fractures are common catastrophic injuries in racehorses. Understanding the response of proxima..

Variation in GPS and accelerometer recorded velocity and stride parameters of galloping Thoroughbred horses

Ashleigh V Morrice-West, Peta L Hitchens, Elizabeth A Walmsley, Mark A Stevenson, Adelene SM Wong, R Chris Whitton

Journal article  |  2020  |  EQUINE VETERINARY JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: With each stride, galloping horses generate large skeletal loads which influence bone physiology, and may contribute t..

Barriers to entering race training before 4 years of age for Thoroughbred horses born in the 2014 Australian foal crop

Meredith L Flash, Adelene SM Wong, Mark A Stevenson, James R Gilkerson

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Currently, there is a paucity of data on the barriers for Australian Thoroughbred horses transitioning from stud farm to racetrack..

Associations between pre-injury racing history and tibial and humeral fractures in Australian Thoroughbred racehorses

RC Whitton, EA Walmsley, ASM Wong, SM Shannon, EJ Frazer, NJ Williams, JF Guerow, PL Hitchens

Journal article  |  2019  |  VETERINARY JOURNAL

Long bone fractures in racehorses may present as stress fractures which have a good prognosis, or complete fractures, which often ..

Probing Endosomal Escape Using pHlexi Nanoparticles

Nachnicha Kongkatigumjorn, Christina Cortez-Jugo, Ewa Czuba, Adelene SM Wong, Rebecca Y Hodgetts, Angus PR Johnston, Georgina K Such

Journal article  |  2017  |  MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

The effective escape of nanocarriers from endosomal compartments of the cell remains a major hurdle in nanomedicine. The endosomal..

pH-Responsive Transferrin-pHlexi Particles Capable of Targeting Cells in Vitro

Adelene SM Wong, Ewa Czuba, Moore Z Chen, Daniel Yuen, Kristofer I Cupic, Shenglin Yang, Rebecca Y Hodgetts, Laura I Selby, Angus PR Johnston, Georgina K Such

Journal article  |  2017  |  ACS MACRO LETTERS

Targeting nanoparticles to specific cellular receptors has the potential to deliver therapeutic compounds to target sites while mi..

Self-assembling dual component nanoparticles with endosomal escape capability

Adelene SM Wong, Sarah K Mann, Ewa Czuba, Audrey Sahut, Haiyin Liu, Tiffany C Suekama, Tayla Bickerton, Angus PR Johnston, Georgina K Such

Journal article  |  2015  |  SOFT MATTER

This study reports a novel nanoparticle system with simple and modular one-step assembly, which can respond intelligently to biolo..