Determination of the gross edge of a tumor is required during patient staging, assessing response to therapy, and for planning and executing surgical resection of locally invasive neoplasms. Disagreement in determination of the gross edge of the tumor is likely to directly affect patient staging, assessing response to therapy and...
Feline injection site sarcomas (FISS) are frequently encountered cutaneous and subcutaneous neoplasms of cats. Significant patient morbidity is related to the invasiveness these tumors display, typically requiring extensive local excision or amputation. As with many veterinary tumors, survival time and tumor recurrence for FISS is highly influenced by histologic margin...
This thesis presents two related studies on the methodology for creating, and
subsequently analyzing, an inverse food web model of an intertidal seagrass bed. The first study (Chapter 2) describes, for the first time in the literature, a method for incorporating isotopic information gained from Bayesian mixing models into an...
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been applied as a hemostatic agent since the 1970s, and a potent source of autologous growth factors since the 1990s. PRP is rich in growth factors such as platelet derived growth factor (PDGF), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), fibroblast growth factor (FGF)...
Availability of suitable nesting habitat that is free of nest predators and provides access to adequate prey resources within commuting distance is a major factor limiting seabird populations. Caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia) in western North America have shifted their breeding habitat from naturally occurring habitats in interior wetlands, lakes, and...
Comparative analyses of canine and human soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) are lacking. This study compared the
histological and immunohistochemical (labelling for desmin, smooth muscle actin [SMA], CD31, pancytokeratin,
S100 and CD34) appearance of 32 archived, formalin-fixed, paraffin wax-embedded canine STS tumour
specimens by board-certified veterinary and medical pathologists, both blinded...
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Milovancev, M., Hauck, M., Keller, C., Stranahan, L. W., Mansoor, A., & Malarkey,
D. E. (2015). Comparative
Comparative analyses of canine and human soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) are lacking. This study compared the
histological and immunohistochemical (labelling for desmin, smooth muscle actin [SMA], CD31, pancytokeratin,
S100 and CD34) appearance of 32 archived, formalin-fixed, paraffin wax-embedded canine STS tumour
specimens by board-certified veterinary and medical pathologists, both blinded...
Comparative analyses of canine and human soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) are lacking. This study compared the histological and immunohistochemical (labelling for desmin, smooth muscle actin [SMA], CD31, pancytokeratin, S100 and CD34) appearance of 32 archived, formalin-fixed, paraffin wax-embedded canine STS tumour specimens by board-certified veterinary and medical pathologists, both blinded...
OBJECTIVES:
The specific objectives of the present study were to 1) evaluate the rate of hemorrhage-related complications across a large number of feline pedicle tie procedures and 2) evaluate for a difference in surgical time between traditional pedicle double-ligation and pedicle tie procedures.
METHODS:
In the initial phase of the...
Background:
Canine oral fibrosarcoma (COF) is one of the most common oral tumors in dogs and carries a guarded prognosis due to a lack of effective systemic therapeutic options. Mastinib and imatinib are two commonly used tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in veterinary oncology but their potential efficacy against COF is...