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Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of circulating antigens of Toxoplasma gondii in the serum of cats
1989
Lappin, M.R. | Greene, C.E. | Prestwood, A.K. | Dawe, D.L. | Tarleton, R.L.
An ELISA was developed to detect circulating antigens of Toxoplasma gondii in the serum of cats. For the experiment, toxoplasmosis was induced in a group of cats by oral administration of bradyzoites. An ELISA that detects anti-Toxoplasma IgG, an ELISA to detect circulating antigens, and fecal examinations were performed on samples from each cat for 1 year after inoculation. When coupled with IgG-class antibody measurement, antigen detection can aid in the diagnosis of some cases of subclinical feline toxoplasmosis.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Hemostasis development in the lamb fetus and neonate
1989
Moalic, P. | Gruel, Y. | Foloppe, P. | Delahousse, B. | Leclerc, M.H. | Leroy, J.
Fetal and neonatal lamb hemostasis were studied from the 60th day of pregnancy to birth. Platelet counts and blood coagulation, as assessed by tests such as recalcification time and thromboelastography, were similar in fetuses, neonates, and adult sheep. The values of coagulation factors were low, ie, vitamin K-dependent Factors II, VII, IX, and X remained unchanged (30 and 40% of adult reference values) until the last 10 days of gestation, and then increased until birth (40 to 60%). Values of fibrinogen and Factor V followed a similar pattern, although their activities became identical to adult values at birth. Also, we measured values of protein C and antithrombin III, which are synthesized by the liver. The importance of hepatic failure and fetal vitamin K deficiency were discussed. Factors VIII and XII activities increased gradually during pregnancy to reach adult values at birth. Fetal fibrinolytic activity increased. This could not be explained by the values or tissue-type plasminogen activator (it was not detectable) or by the presence of its fast-acting inhibitor, whose concentration did not decrease.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Serum relaxin and progesterone concentrations in pregnant, pseudopregnant, and ovariectomized, progestin-treated pregnant bitches: detection of relaxin as a marker of pregnancy
1989
Steinetz, B.G. | Goldsmith, L.T. | Harvey, H.J. | Lust, G.
Serum concentrations of relaxin and progesterone were measured by specific radioimmunoassays in pregnant, pseudopregnant, or ovariectomized (between gestation weeks 4 and 5) pregnant Labrador Retriever bitches. Daily administration of 17 alpha-ethyl-19-nortestosterone was performed to maintain gestation in the ovariectomized pregnant bitches. This synthetic gestagen was selected because it did not interfere with the assay for endogenously secreted progesterone concentration in serum. Serum progesterone concentration was high in ovarian-intact pregnant or pseudopregnant bitches, but the mean progesterone concentration in pseudopregnant bitches (evaluated at 4 weeks after mating) was only 56% of the concentration in pregnant bitches. After ovariectomy, serum progesterone concentration decreased to undetectable values. Unlike progesterone, serum relaxin concentration increased during the latter half of pregnancy in the ovarian-intact and in the ovariectomized pregnant bitches, but relaxin was not detectable at any time in the pseudopregnant bitches. The amount of relaxin measured in the ovariectomized pregnant bitches was less (P less than 0.05) than that in ovarian-intact bitches, suggesting that the ovaries may have contributed to the total circulating relaxin concentration in the latter. Placental production of relaxin might have accounted for the serum relaxin concentration after ovariectomy; thus, the ovary and placenta each may secrete relaxin during gestation in bitches. Regardless of its source, measurement of serum relaxin concentration may offer a useful way of distinction between pregnancy and pseudopregnancy in dogs.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Analysis of muscle elements, water, and total lipids from healthy dogs and Labrador Retrievers with hereditary muscular dystrophy
1989
Mehta, J.R. | Braund, K.G. | McKerrell, R.E. | Toivio-Kinnucan, M.
Skeletal muscles from healthy dogs and Labrador Retrievers with hereditary muscular dystrophy were examined morphologically and histochemically and were analyzed biochemically for Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Zn2+, Cu2+, Cl-, total muscle water, and total neutral lipid content. Flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer was used for elemental quantitation of hydrochloric acid tissue extracts. Muscle samples from dystrophic dogs contained substantially increased concentrations of Na+, Ca2+, Zn2+, Cu2+, and Cl-, and a considerable reduction in the content of K+ and Mg2+ compared with samples from healthy dogs. Total muscle water and total fat content was higher in muscles from dystrophic dogs. Most muscle samples from dystrophic dogs had a type-2 fiber deficiency and an increase in number of fibers with internalized nuclei.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Effects of lipoxygenase inhibitors in a model of lens-induced uveitis in dogs
1989
Dziezyc, J. | Millichamp, N.J. | Rohde, B.H. | Baker, J.S. | Chiou, G.C.Y.
Uveitis was induced in dogs by intracameral injection of canine lens protein. The lipoxygenase inhibitors phenidone and norhydroguaiaretic acid, and dimethyl sulfoxide decreased fibrin production at 0.5 and 1 hour after induction uveitis. Phenidone and norhydroguaiaretic acid also inhibited the initial increase intraocular pressure early in the course of inflammation. Leukotriene B4 in the aqueous was measured by use of radioimmunoassay at 1 hour after inflammation. In control dogs, 230 to 1,700 pg of leukotriene B4/ml was measured; in dogs treated with phenidone, leukotriene, B4 was not measured.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Udder edema in cattle: effects of diuretics (furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, acetazolamide, and 50% dextrose) on serum and urine electrolytes
1989
Vestweber, J.G.E. | Al-Ani, F.K. | Johnson, D.E.
Blood and urine chemical values at parturition in clinically normal Holstein cows (n = 12) were compared with the same values in Holstein cows developing udder edema (n = 12). There was no statistically significant mean difference between the 2 groups for the serum and urine chemical data. Furosemide (500 mg) given IV caused a significant increase in serum calcium and sodium, urine chloride, potassium, and sodium, and fractional excretional ratio of chloride, potassium, and sodium. There was a significant mean decrease in the serum potassium, urine creatinine, osmolality, pH, and specific gravity. Hydrochlorothiazide (250 mg) given IV caused a significant mean increase in serum chloride, urine chloride, potassium, and sodium, and fractional excretion ratio of chloride, potassium, and sodium. There was a significant mean decrease in serum potassium and sodium, urine osmolality, pH, and specific gravity. Acetazolamide (500 mg) given IV caused a significant mean increase in blood urea nitrogen, serum chloride and glucose, urine sodium, and fractional excretion ratio of sodium, while causing a significant mean decrease in serum potassium, sodium, and phosphorus, and urine creatinine. Dextrose (500 g) given IV as a 50% solution caused a statistical mean increase in serum glucose, urine chloride, potassium, and sodium, and fractional excretion ratio of chloride and potassium. A statistical mean decrease occurred in the packed cell volume, blood urea nitrogen, serum calcium, potassium, sodium, and phosphorus, urine creatinine, osmolality, and pH.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Influence of cage size on heart rate and behavior in rhesus monkeys
1989
Line, S.W. | Morgan, K.N. | Markowitz, H. | Strong, S.
We studied 6 singly caged adult female rhesus monkeys to determine whether increased cage size had any effect on behavior or heart rate. Two monkeys at a time were placed in cages 40% larger than their standard cage for 1 week on 2 occasions, using a counter-balanced design. Direct behavioral observations were performed 75 minutes/week on each monkey. Heart rate and general activity were monitored 35 hours/week by a telemetry system. Statistically significant differences were not found in aggressive, submissive, abnormal, or self-abusive behavior, nor in time spent in the front half of the cage, duration of grooming, looking at the observer, or stereotyped or nonstereotyped locomotion. Vocalizations increased the first time in the larger cage, but not the second, and decreased upon the second return to the standard cage. Differences with respect to cage size were not found in heart rate or activity level, although there were significant variations at different times of day. We conclude that modest increases in cage size are unlikely to enrich the environment of singly caged laboratory primates.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Clinical electromyographic studies of canine X-linked muscular dystrophy
1989
Valentine, B.A. | Kornegay, J.N. | Cooper, B.J.
Clinical electromyographic studies were performed in dogs (6 weeks to 5.5 years old) with a degenerative myopathy analogous to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Spontaneous activity, consisting primarily of complex repetitive discharges (pseudomyotonic discharges), was found in all dogs tested, but was most prominent in dogs greater than or equal to 10 weeks old. Myotonic discharges also were found, but were less frequent. Motor unit potentials were generally abnormally brief and frequently polyphasic. Ulnar nerve conduction velocities determined in two 4-month-old dogs were similar to those of unaffected littermates. It was concluded that canine X-linked muscular dystrophy is a primary myopathic process in which complex repetitive discharges and myotonic discharges are a prominent feature. The basis for this spontaneous activity is not known.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Virulence determinants of Salmonella typhimurium from animal sources
1989
McDonough, P.L. | Jacobson, R.H. | Timoney, J.F.
Two hundred seventy-eight strains of Salmonella typhimurium isolated from 1973 to 1981 from animal sources in New York State were studied for possible virulence determinants and for a serotype-specific plasmid possibly linked with virulence. Of the strains, 98% possessed type-1 fimbriae. All strains possessed flagella and were motile. One hundred twenty-three strains (44%) treated with mitomycin C tested positive for the cholera-Escherichia coli heat labile family of toxins by a kinetics-based ELISA; when treated with mitomycin C and extracted with polymyxin B, 249 (90%) were positive in the kinetics-based ELISA. All strains were negative in the Biken Test. A smooth cell wall was found in 99% of the strains. Sixty-one percent (169) of the strains had a 62-Md plasmid. Seventy-six (27$%) of the strains had detectable plasmids ranging in size from 1 to 124 Md.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]Blastocyst development on days 10 or 14 after consumption of zearalenone by sows on days 7 to 10 after breeding
1989
Diekman, M.A. | Long, G.G.
Sixteen primiparous sows were bred and fed either a control ration (n = 8) or a diet containing purified zearalenone (n = 8; 1 mg/kg of body weight) from days 7 to 10 after breeding. On day 7 after breeding, the jugular vein of each sow was cannulated and blood was collected at 20-minute intervals for 4 hours before feeding and 4 hour after feeding. On day 10 after breeding, blood samples were collected from 4 control sows and 4 zearalenonefed sows at 20-minute intervals for 4 hours before collection of blastocysts. A similar blood sampling schedule was followed for the remaining 4 control and 4 zearalenone sows on day 14 after breeding. On day 10 after breeding, spherical blastocysts were recovered from all control sows and from 3 of 4 zearalenone-treated sows. Average diameter of blastocysts from zearalenone-treated sows were similar to that of control sows. On day 14 after breeding, blastocysts were recovered from all control sows and 3 of 4 zearalenone-treated sows. Blastocysts from the control sows were filamentous, whereas blastocysts from zearalenone-treated sows were fragmented and contained foci of necrosis. Incidence of luteinizing hormone (LH) secretory spikes per sow was less (P less than 0.01) in zearalenone-treated sows (0.25 +/- 0.25/4 h) than control sows (1.75 +/- 0.25/4 h) on day 10 after breeding. Incidence of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) secretory spikes was simillar (P = 0.45) among treatments on days 7, 10, and 14 after breeding. Mean serum concentrations of LH were less on day 10 (P = 0.07) and day 14 (P less than 0.01) in zearalenone-treated sows than in control sows (3.3 +/- 0.2 ng/ml vs 6.2 +/- 1.3). These data indicate that administration of zearalenone on days 7 to 10 after breeding altered secretory patterns of serum LH during days 10 and 14 after breeding, which may have contributed to the death of blastocysts by day 14 after breeding.
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