Feline mammary tumor is a relatively commonly diagnosed neoplasm in the cat. Development of new veterinary cancer therapies limited by shortage vivo models that reproduce microenvironment and metastatic progression. Four feline orthotopic patient-derived xenograft model (PDX) successfully established NOD-SCID gamma (NSG) mice. The overall success rate PDX establishment was 36% (4/11). Histologi...

Assessing, acknowledging, and managing pain in feline patients are often challenging. Failure to recognize protect the cats from harmful effects of nociception, therefore, ensues. Feline that afflicted with illness tissue trauma may arise or surgery have acute needs be addressed. Acute can present varying degrees intensity, a parameter sensory-discriminatory aspect, unpleasantness, perceived fe...

Mycobacteria of feline importance include (1) obligate pathogens (tuberculosis), (2) mycobacteria that are difficult to grow, so the environmental niche is unknown (feline leprosy syndrome), and (3) facultative pathogenic opportunistic saprophytes (non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis). Most cats present with cutaneous disease, although some have systemic involvement. Diagnosis is challenging becaus...

A genetic map of 31 biochemical loci located on 17 feline syntenic (linkage) groups has been derived by somatic cell genetic analysis of cat-rodent hybrids. Most of these syntenic groups have been assigned to one of the 19 feline chromosomes. Comparative linkage analysis of the feline biochemical loci and homologous human loci revealed considerable conservation of linkage associations between t...

A total of 46 strains of feline calicivirus isolates from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and New Zealand were used in an investigation of their serological relationships based on the serum neutralization test. Although demonstrable antigenic variation exists between these isolates, it is shown that significant in vitro cross-activity exists between all these isolates to greater o...

Mammalian bites present a considerable clinical problem because they are often associated with bacterial infections. Pasteurella multocida is a microorganism that commonly infects both canine and small feline bites. Zoonotic infections developing after large feline bites have been recognised, although their reports are limited. We describe a 35 year old man who was bitten by a Siberian tiger an...

Three feline virus isolates were shown to be members of the reovirus group by their growth characteristics in cell cultures, physicochemical properties, and appearance under an electron microscope. Their close serological relationship to, or identity with, human reovirus type III was revealed by hemagglutination, hemagglutination inhibition, serum neutralization, and gel diffusion tests. One fe...

BACKGROUND There are two biotypes of feline coronavirus (FCoV): the self-limiting feline enteric coronavirus (FECV) and the feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV), which causes feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a fatal disease associated with cats living in multi-cat environments. This study provides an insight on the various immune mediators detected in FCoV-positive cats which may be r...

OBJECTIVE To compare serum total thyroxine (T4) concentrations obtained with an in-house ELISA and a validated radioimmunoassay (RIA). DESIGN Laboratory trial. SAMPLE POPULATION 50 canine and 50 feline serum samples submitted for measurement of total T4 concentration with the RIA; samples were selected to represent a wide range of concentrations (< 6 to 167 nmol/L). PROCEDURE Results of t...