CASE SUMMARY A 5-month-old feral kitten developed worsening respiratory signs, including tachypnea, coughing and wheezing after standard anthelmintic treatment with fenbendazole at a local shelter. The kitten was referred to the University of California, Davis, William R Pritchard Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital for further evaluation. Thoracic radiographs revealed a severe diffuse bronch...

A 3-month-old male domestic short-hair kitten was presented with chronic constipation and disproportionate dwarfism. Radiographs of the long bones and spine revealed delayed epiphyseal ossification and epiphyseal dysgenesis. Diagnosis of congenital primary hypothyroidism was confirmed by low serum total thyroxine and high thyroid stimulating hormone concentrations. Appropriate supplementation o...

Retinal vascular development during the first three postnatal weeks was studied in 63 purebred beagle puppies. Use of a positive enzyme histochemical reaction for adenosine triphosphatase in the nuclei and nucleoli of vascular cells made visualization of the retinal vasculature possible. Animals were killed by decapitation. Thus, artifacts resulting from use of anesthetics or tracer substances ...

To estimate the tryptophan requirement of the kitten, six male and six female kittens were presented diets containing 0.7, 0.9, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5 and 3.0 g tryptophan/kg diet for six experimental periods lasting 10 d in accordance with a 6 X 6 balanced Latin-square design. Mean daily weight gain and nitrogen retention (N intake minus urinary and faecal N) plateaued at 1.1 g tryptophan/kg diet indic...

ocular lesions are a common manifestation of toxoplasmosis in cats. in this survey, 10 healthy syrianmice were infected through intraperitoneal inoculation of bradyzoites of toxoplasma gondii (tehran strain).mice were killed 30 days after inoculation and the suspension of their brains was prepared, after confirmationof the infection. seven kittens were fed with the infected mice brain suspensio...

A double-layer sheet of small intestinal submucosa (SIS) was used to reconstruct a large chronic diaphragmatic defect in a 4-month-old kitten. The SIS graft was easy to use, postoperative recovery was uneventful, no side effects of the SIS implant were observed, and the SIS graft resulted in restoration of normal clinical function while allowing growth of the kitten without restriction of chest...

We present a detailed experimental analysis of a free-propagating light pulse prepared in a "Schrödinger kitten" state, which is defined as a quantum superposition of "classical" coherent states with small amplitudes. This kitten state is generated by subtracting one photon from a squeezed vacuum beam, and it clearly presents a negative Wigner function. The predicted influence of the experiment...