Mary Nabity
Associate Department Head (Residents & Clinical Services) & Professor
International Veterinary Renal Pathology Service
Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
Research and Scholarly Interests
Research interests involve kidney disease, urine proteomics, and RNA/miRNA alterations during progression of kidney disease, with a focus on dogs with chronic kidney disease. Our goals are to investigate the pathogenesis of kidney disease progression and to help develop and validate testing methods to improve the diagnosis and monitoring of renal disease in companion animals. Current investigations include evaluation of certain urinary proteins as early markers of renal disease and specific markers of renal disease progression. In addition, we are using urine gel electrophoresis to further characterize urine proteins present in dogs and cats with various renal disorders.
EDUCATION
- B.S., University of Nebraska, 1998
- D.V.M., Cornell University, 2002
- Internship, Texas A&M University, 2003
- Residency, Texas A&M University, 2006
- Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2010
CREDENTIALS
- Nebraska Veterinary Medical License, start 2002
- ACVP, start 2006, Board Certified
- Texas Veterinary Medical Specialty License: 0228-S
- Physiology
- Medicine
- Clinical Pathology
- Chapman S, Pittman J, Nabity M, Johnson M (2008). Sodium hypochlorite bleach ingestion in two dogs VET MED. 1, 13-18
- Chapman S, Wilcox A, Nabity M (2009). All mixed up VET FORUM., 20-24
- Nabity MB, Lees GE, Dangott LJ, Cianciolo R, Suchodolski JS, Steiner JM (2011). Proteomic analysis of urine from male dogs during early stages of tubulointerstitial injury in a canine model of progressive glomerular disease. VET CLIN PATHOL. 2, 222-36
- Nabity MB, Barnhart K, Logan KS, Santos RL, Kessell A, Melmed C, Snowden KF (2006). An atypical case of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a young English Mastiff. VET PARASITOL. 3-4, 356-61
- Nabity MB (2011). Re-evaluating Urine Dipstick Protein in Dogs: When should you be concerned? ADVANCES IN SMALL ANIMAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 11, 1-3
- Schneider SM*, Cianciolo RE, Nabity MB, Clubb FJ Jr, Brown CA, Lees GE (2013). Prevalence of immune-complex glomerulonephritides in dogs biopsied for suspected glomerular disease: 501 cases (2007-2012). J VET INTERN MED. Suppl 1, S67-75
- Harr KE, Flatland B, Nabity M, Freeman KP, ASVCP (2013). ASVCP guidelines: allowable total error guidelines for biochemistry. VET CLIN PATHOL. 4, 424-36
- Kvitko-White HL, Cook AK, Nabity MB, Zhang S, Lawhon SD (2013). Evaluation of a catalase-based urine test for the detection of urinary tract infection in dogs and cats. J VET INTERN MED. 6, 1379-84
- Brown MR, Cianciolo RE, Nabity MB, Brown CA, Clubb FJ, Lees GE (2013). Masitinib-associated minimal change disease with acute tubular necrosis resulting in acute kidney injury in a dog. J VET INTERN MED. 6, 1622-6
- Benali SL, Lees GE, Nabity MB, Mantovani R, Bonsembiante F, Aresu L (2013). De novo expression of human leukocyte antigen-DR (HLA-DR) and loss of beta-catenin expression in tubular epithelial cells: a possible event in epithelial-mesenchymal transition in canine renal diseases. VET J. 1, 229-34
- Cooper TK, Zhong Q, Nabity M, Rosenberg G, Weiss WJ (2012). Use of urinary biomarkers of renal ischemia in a lamb preclinical left ventricular assist device model. ARTIF ORGANS. 9, 820-4
- Nowend KL, Starr-Moss AN, Lees GE, Berridge BR, Clubb FJ, Kashtan CE, Nabity MB, Murphy KE (2012). Characterization of the genetic basis for autosomal recessive hereditary nephropathy in the English Springer Spaniel. J VET INTERN MED. 2, 294-301
- Nabity MB, Lees GE, Cianciolo R, Boggess MM, Steiner JM, Suchodolski JS (2012). Urinary biomarkers of renal disease in dogs with X-linked hereditary nephropathy. J VET INTERN MED. 2, 282-93
- Backlund B, Zoran DL, Nabity MB, Norby B, Bauer JE (2011). Effects of dietary protein content on renal parameters in normal cats. J FELINE MED SURG. 10, 698-704
- Ralph AG, Saunders AB, Hariu CD, Nabity M (2011). Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast in three dogs. J VET EMERG CRIT CARE (SAN ANTONIO). 2, 158-65
- Daly M, Sheppard S, Cohen N, Nabity M, Moussy A, Hermine O, Wilson H (2011). Safety of masitinib mesylate in healthy cats. J VET INTERN MED. 2, 297-302
- Stacy NI, Nabity MB, Hackendahl N, Buote M, Ward J, Ginn PE, Vernau W, Clapp WL, Harvey JW (2009). B-cell lymphoma with Mott cell differentiation in two young adult dogs. VET CLIN PATHOL. 1, 113-20
- Chapman S, Nabity M, Calise D (2008). What is your diagnosis? Lingual mass in a dog. VET CLIN PATHOL. 1, 133-9
- Nabity MB, Boggess MM, Kashtan CE, Lees GE (2007). Day-to-Day variation of the urine protein: creatinine ratio in female dogs with stable glomerular proteinuria caused by X-linked hereditary nephropathy. J VET INTERN MED. 3, 425-30
- Larry D Cowgill, David J Polzin, Jonathan Elliott, Mary B Nabity, Gilad Segev, Gregory F Grauer, Scott Brown, Cathy Langston, Astrid M van Dongen (2016). Is Progressive Chronic Kidney Disease a Slow Acute Kidney Injury? THE VETERINARY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA. SMALL ANIMAL PRACTICE., 995-1013
- Holly M Minard*, Caitlin Burrell, Josue D Delgado, Raquel R Rech, Mary B Nabity (2016). What's your diagnosis? Skin impression smear from a Bearded Dragon. VETERINARY CLINICAL PATHOLOGY / AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR VETERINARY CLINICAL PATHOLOGY.
- Rachel Cianciolo, Jessica Hokamp*, Mary Nabity (2016). Advances in the evaluation of canine renal disease. VETERINARY JOURNAL (LONDON, ENGLAND : 1997).
- Jessica A Hokamp*, Mary B Nabity (2016). Renal biomarkers in domestic species. VETERINARY CLINICAL PATHOLOGY / AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR VETERINARY CLINICAL PATHOLOGY.
- S L Benali, G E Lees, M B Nabity, A Aricò, M Drigo, E Gallo, M Giantin, L Aresu (2016). X-Linked Hereditary Nephropathy in Navasota Dogs: Clinical Pathology, Morphology, and Gene Expression During Disease Progression. VETERINARY PATHOLOGY.
- J A Hokamp*, R E Cianciolo, M Boggess, G E Lees, S L Benali, M Kovarsky, M B Nabity (2016). Correlation of Urine and Serum Biomarkers with Renal Damage and Survival in Dogs with Naturally Occurring Proteinuric Chronic Kidney Disease. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE / AMERICAN COLLEGE OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE.
- Heather Weir, Patricia L Chen, Thaddeus C Deiss, Natalie Jacobs, Mary B Nabity, Matt Young, Michael F Criscitiello (2015). DNP-KLH Yields Changes in Leukocyte Populations and Immunoglobulin Isotype Use with Different Immunization Routes in Zebrafish. FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY.
- Jennifer Davis, Anthea L Raisis, Rachel E Cianciolo, David W Miller, Robert E Shiel, Mary B Nabity, Giselle L Hosgood (2016). Urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin concentration changes after acute haemorrhage and colloid-mediated reperfusion in anaesthetized dogs. VETERINARY ANAESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA.
- M. B. Nabity, G. E. Lees, M. M. Boggess, M. Yerramilli, E. Obare, M. Yerramilli, J. Aguiar, R. Relford (2015). SDMA assay validation, stability, and evaluation as a marker for early detection of chronic kidney disease in dogs J VET INTERN MED.
- David Martínez-Jiménez, Bridget Garner, Sheryl Coutermarsh-Ott, Caitlin Burrell, Sabrina Clark, Mary Nabity, Josué Díaz-Delgado, Aline Rodrigues-Hoffmann, Karen Zaks, Laila Proença, Stephen Divers, Corey Saba, Paola Cazzini (2017). Eosinophilic leukemia in three African pygmy hedgehogs ( Atelerix albiventris) and validation of Luna stain. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION : OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VETERINARY LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICIANS, INC. 2, 217-223
- Sabrina D Clark, Mary B Nabity, Rachel E Cianciolo, Brianna Dufek, Dominic Cosgrove (2016). X-Linked Alport Dogs Demonstrate Mesangial Filopodial Invasion of the Capillary Tuft as an Early Event in Glomerular Damage. PLOS ONE. 12,