... prevents insulin-induced inhibition of hepatic glucose output, indicating that, in such conditions, cells become insulin insensitive; this is in agreement with studies in which the overexpression of ... in the TNFa-mediated inhibition of PEPCK [54] Therefore, in cells preincubated with TNFa prior to insulin, insulin signalling is prevented, resulting in abrogation of this inhibitory effect on ... have unfolded a series of events beginning with the TNFa-mediated prevention of the effect of insulin on Foxa2 localization and leading to the abrogation of insulin inhibition of gluconeogenesis...
... discretion of the attending physician, including inotrope administration and dosing It is well recognized that heart failure leads to increased circulating levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such ... troponin may reveal sub-clinical cardiac injury due to inotrope initiation We sought to determine the effect of initiating milrinone on biomarkers of myocardial function (N-terminal pro-B-type Natriuretic ... the setting of more routine decompensated heart failure, and the effect milrinone in ischemic subset of patients deserves further investigation Conclusion Initiation of milrinone therapy in patients...
... assessments The lamina splendens was not disrupted in any location based on lack of India ink staining, indicat- ing that AC surface integrity was maintained for two weeks in the dogsin this study ... Increases in COX-2 and INOS in regions most affected by joint instability were consistent with signaling events that typically occur in OA joints[50,51] The concurrent and often colocalized increases ... influence the "point of no return" in the progression of OA are chondrocyte viability and phenotype During the development of OA, there is often a focal increase in cell death[15-18] Since it is theorized...
... Other information gathered from the medical records included signalment, clinical signs on admission and historical findings, physical examination findings, results of biochemical analyses, information ... and Sherding, R G Clinicopathologic findings resembling hypoadrenocortisim indogs with primary gastrointestinal disease J Am Vet Med Assoc 1985, 187, 60-63 Feldman, E C Diabetes mellitus In Kirk, ... control In Ettinger, S J (ed.) Textbook of veterinary internal medicine: diseases of the dog and cat pp 429-449 3rd ed WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1989 32 Sodikoff, C H Laboratory profiles of small...
... acupuncture treatment of 110 cases of abdominal pain as a sequela of abdominal surgery J Trad Chin Med 1988, 8, 269-270 31 Zontine, W J Effect of chemical restraint drugs on the passage of barium sulfate ... following preanesthetic treatment The amplitude of gastric motility following xylazine administration (1 mg/kg, IV) was decreased markedly The frequency (12 cycle/min) following xylazine was increased ... Effects of acupuncture and moxibustion on intestinal motility in mice Am J Chinese Med 1994, 22, 119-125 Merritt, A M., burrow, J A., and Hartless C S Effect of xylazine, detomidine and a combination...
... numbers of peristaltic waves in the small intestine of the sedated dogs were 0.000/min in xylazine HCl, 0.999/min, in ketamine HCl, and 1.201/min in those dogs administered xylazine HCl, ketamine ... Measurement of the peristaltic movement of small intestine in fed dogs The numbers of peristaltic waves in the small intestine after 24-hour fasting were 0.133/min hour, 0.100/min hour, 0.033/min hours, ... Relationships of motility to flow of contents in the human small intestine Gastroenterology 1982, 82(4), 701-706 16 McNeel, S V and Hsu, W H Xylazine-induced prolongation of gastrointestinal transit in dogs: ...
... percent of isoflurane in oxygen was delivered via endotracheal tube for at least 60 minutes.Determination of baseline MAC was initiated at 1.5% isoflurane and was duplicated following the method of ... Experimental investigation of the cardiovascular and respiratory effects of increasing concentrations of isoflurane in the dog Res Vet Sci 1986, 40(1), 89-93 Klide, A.M Cardiopulmonary effects of enflurane ... Systemic and cerebral effects of isoflurane-induced hypotension indogs Anesthesiology 1984, 60(6), 541546 Spaulding K.A A review of sonographic identification of abdominal blood vessels and juxtavascular...
... our findings, it was also demonstrated an effect of ginsenoside R0 on inhibition of the increase of connective tissue in the liver of CCl4 induced chronic hepatitic rats [31] These findings suggested ... differences As a rusult of these findings, it could be interpreted as indicating that the low levels of AST and ALT induced in the KRG treated groups may reflect the recovery in the remaining liver function ... decreases of the number of degenerative cells and area of connective tissue in the KRG administered and hepatectomized liver in the dog This is in agreement with Kaido et al's [25] findings in the...
... hypoxemia and pain [13] In this study, acupoints could be divided into local and distal points Local points were segmental urinary bladder points Local points on the governing vessel meridian in these ... placebo in improving neurological outcome [10] Increasing the dose of dexamethasone to less than half of the reported equipotent high-dose protocol of MPSS (30 mg/kg) had resulted in gastrointestinal ... Experimental Spinal Cord Injury inDogs 99 ences among groups in recovery days of conscious proprioception and extensor postural thrust by SPSS (SPSS for windows Release 8.0 Standard Version, SPSS Ins.,...
... signs In 73% of the cases, abdominal gas shadows originating from small intestines or stomach were observed in the thoracic cavity (Table 6) The abdominal organs were displaced cranially in 97% of ... prominent organ in the left side hernias (95% but 17% in right side; Table 1) Regardless of the site of herniation, hernias involving the small intestine was more evenly distributed (42% in the ... reliable indicator of diaphragmatic hernia in this study Dorsal displacement was prominent in our findings suggesting that the herniated abdominal organs might have pushed the trachea upward High incidences...
... was induced, it was maintained at least with 2% of isoflurane (Isoflurane, Rhodia, UK) During the procedure, the pulmonary arterial temperature was maintained at 38.0 ± 0.5oC using a circulating ... 0.03 mg/kg acepromazine and 0.04 mg/kg of atropine (Daihan Pharm, Korea) following intravenous injection of 10 mg/kg of ketamine (Ketalar, Yuhan, Korea) with 2.2 mg/kg of xylazine (Rompun, Bayer ... tracheal intubation, anesthesia was maintained with 2% of isoflurane in oxygen at flow rate 100 ml/kg/hr A period of days was allowed to elapse following isoflurane anesthesia Then, dogs were...
... compared using independent t-test The RI in RCA obtained from fontanelle window and temporal window were compared using independent t-test In order to minimize interindividual variability of physiological ... ultrasonic window had to be located in each individual by searching this region to obtain the maximum amplitude of the Doppler signals In order to obtain the Doppler signal in the RCA and CCA in transverse ... of the canine brain, even in a limited population of patients In transverse scan at the level of the interthalamic adhesion, pulsations seen on real-time images were remarkable in the sulci of...
... condition due to mediastinal shift was observed 396 Hakan Salci et al Complications were encountered inof the 27 dogs (10 dogsin SGI, dogsin SGII and 10 dogsin SGIII) and included two BPFs (on ... Considering these findings and the possible postoperative coughing and barking of the dogs, 50 cm H2O pressure was applied intra-bronchially to test for air leakage In cases of air bubbles occurring ... technique The incidence of BPF following manual suture plus autogenic tissue coverage is 3.9% in humans [1] The main focus of this study was not to determine the incidence of BPF in dogs, but we...
... oxygen using a nebulizer, beginning days before and continuing until weeks after stent implantation All dogs were examined by survey radiographs and fluoroscopy at week or month intervals following ... implantations of other nitinol stents [4,9,11] In conclusion, we found that implantation of self- expandable intra-tracheal nitinol stents into dogs provided adequate stability to the trachea with intraluminal ... treatment of tracheal collapse in a dog J Am Vet Med Assoc 2004, 225, 1217-1221 10 Moritz A, Schneider M, Bauer N Management of advanced tracheal collapse indogs using intraluminal self-expanding...
... mg I/ml was injected into the joint at a volume of 0.3 ml/cm of the medial to lateral thickness of the joint [2,6] The joint was manipulated and massaged to assure even distribution of the material ... cranial point of the patella and the tibial tuberosity and just medial to the patella [2] Digital pressure was applied to the caudal aspect of the joint opposite the point of entry into the joint Iohexol (Omnipaque ... readily available for use in canine patients Recently, the diagnostic utility of single-detector CTA for identifying ligamentous structures in the normal canine stifle has been investigated and has...
... pathology of tracheal collapse indogs J Small Anim Pract 1976, 17, 738791 Ettinger SJ, Kantrowitz B Diseases of the trachea In: Ettinger SJ, Feldman EC (eds.) Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine: ... have distinct advantages for demonstrating tracheal collapse indogs as it is noninvasive and safe [9,12,14] and it could be accomplished within a few minutes In addition, measurement of the TITRW/FTRW ... 1) In expiration, the TITRW of the normal dogs (9.05 ± 1.52 mm) was greater (p = 0.001) than that of the tracheal collapsed dogs (15.89 ± 1.01 mm) In inspiration, the TITRW of the normal dogs...
... were obtained following neutral positioning of the left carpal joint During this process, one dog was sedated with 1.1 mg/kg xylazine (Rompun; Bayer, Germany) intramuscularly because of the dog’s ... rapid and non-invasive and it offers real time monitoring The examination of soft-tissue structures is also possible [22] These aforementioned advantages were confirmed by our findings and sedation ... for reliably interpreting the US images In the transverse plane, the normal tendons indogs have medium echogenity with hyperechoic pinpoints that represent the collagen fibers within the tendon...
... (reformatting) software can be used to convert a set of 2D CT slice images into a set of volume data for interactive manipulation and visualization [5] Reformatting software is a standard feature of ... the Internet as a free download (OsiriX for Macintosh; ImageJ for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux systems) Spinal angulation can be corrected using oblique multiplanar reformatting (MPR) software ... utility of MPR CT images for assessment of canine IVDD The purpose of this study was to test the effects of MPR CT on surgeon diagnostic performance in a group ofdogs with confirmed thoracolumbar intervertebral...
... prevalent in Southern China, particularly in Guangdong province and in the northern parts of Africa and Inuits of Alaska[1] Till date radiotherapy remains the mainstay treatment of NPC[2] A definitive ... prone to radiation induced necrosis The wide use of 3D conformal and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in the treatment of NPC has led to a dwindling incidence of TLN Yet, it still ... presence of injured but potentially salvageable brain tissue However, paradoxical findings have also been obtained with this technique in patients presumably with radiation induced brain necrosis...