Cardiopulmonary and inflammatory biomarkers in heartworm disease

Heartworm Disease in Dogs

The life cycle begins when a female mosquito bites an infected dog and ingests the microfilariae during a blood meal. The microfilariae develop further for 10 30 days in the mosquito's gut and then enter its mouthparts. At this stage, they are infective larvae and can complete their maturation when they enter a dog. The infective larvae enter the dog's body when the mosquito bites the dog. They...

Emerging issues in heartworm disease

C anine and feline heartworm diagnostic methodologies as well as treatment and prevention strategies have changed considerably during the previous decade.We have experienced an unprecedented increase in numbers and kinds of available medications and diagnostic aids, and the capabilities of pet owners to acquire information of both a technical and lay nature. This can be both beneficial and detr...

Canine Heartworm Disease

Biomarkers of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disease mostly involved with intestine with unknown etiology. Diagnosis, evaluation of severity, and prognosis are still present as challenges for physicians. An ideal biomarker with the characters such as simple, easy to perform, noninvasive or microinvasive, cheap, rapid, and reproducible is helpful for patients and clinicians. Currently biomarker...

Biomarkers in canine inflammatory bowel disease diagnostics.

Canine inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a heterogeneous group of chronic gastrointestinal disorders. The etiology, similar to human IBD, remains unknown. Canine IBD is diagnosed by exclusion, which is a long, time and money-consuming process due to the need of elimination of other diseases presenting with similar symptoms. Therefore, a search for a specific and sensitive marker is needed to ...