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Res Vet Sci ; 128: 236-241, 2020 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31837512

ABSTRACT

The dog has been used extensively as an experimental model to study meniscal treatments such as meniscectomy, meniscal repair and regeneration. Accurate quantification of meniscal size and morphology are a crucial step for developing models of the meniscus. 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been found to be highly accurate in analyzing the meniscus in both clinical and research fields. However, 3.0T MRI systems are still uncommonly used in veterinary medicine. The goal of the study was to compare meniscal volume measurements from 1.5T MRI system with 3.0T MRI system using proton density sequence, a clinically relevant protocol. The MR images were segmented to reconstruct 3D surface representations of both medial and lateral menisci to compare the meniscal volumes measurements. Average volume differences were 8.8% (P=0.42) and 8.9% (P=0.535) for medial and lateral meniscus, respectively. No significant volume differences were found between 1.5T and 3.0T magnetic resonance (MR) measurements, with high Pearson's correlation coefficient of r > 0.8 and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.899. For inter- and intra-observer reproducibility, high correlation (ICC = 0.942 and 0.814) was observed, but with high variability for intra-observer reproducibility (lower bound 0.478, upper bound 0.949). We have shown that common clinical MR scanners and pulse sequences can be used to quantify dogs' meniscal volumes with good reproducibility. We believe that repeatable measurements of meniscal volumes using MR may provide a useful capability for assessment of postoperative results following meniscal treatments such as meniscectomy and meniscal regeneration.


Subject(s)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging/veterinary , Menisci, Tibial/anatomy & histology , Animals , Dogs , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Menisci, Tibial/surgery , Tibial Meniscus Injuries/surgery , Tibial Meniscus Injuries/veterinary
2.
Aust Vet J ; 95(5): 161-166, 2017 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28444758

ABSTRACT

CASE REPORT: A 4-month-old female intact American Pit Bull Terrier was presented for right pelvic limb lameness 1 day after the dog had been hit by an all-terrain vehicle. Orthogonal radiographs of the right stifle revealed a Salter-Harris type IV fracture through the proximal tibial physis extending caudodistally through the proximal tibial metaphysis. The distal tibia was markedly displaced cranially, laterally and proximally, resulting in complete overriding of the fracture segments. An open approach was made in order to facilitate direct reduction, but the fracture could not be sufficiently distracted and the epiphyseal segment remained fixed caudal to the remainder of the tibia. Concerns regarding possible iatrogenic trauma to the epiphysis prompted the use of a transarticular circular fixator construct to distract the fracture segments to facilitate reduction. Distraction that facilitated reduction was performed using three TrueLok Rapid Quick Adjust Struts that were positioned between the two ring components. The struts also allowed for multiplanar adjustment of alignment, which allowed the fracture to be maintained in anatomic reduction as divergent interfragmentary Kirschner wires were placed. Radiographic union was confirmed 19 days after surgery. CONCLUSION/CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Transient intraoperative application of a circular construct incorporating the TrueLok components facilitated accurate fracture reduction without inflicting further iatrogenic trauma to the epiphysis, after traditional direct reduction techniques proved ineffective, and afforded a successful clinical outcome in the dog reported here.


Subject(s)
Dogs/surgery , External Fixators/veterinary , Fractures, Bone/veterinary , Orthopedic Procedures/veterinary , Tibia/surgery , Animals , Dogs/injuries , Epiphyses/injuries , Epiphyses/surgery , Female , Fracture Healing , Fractures, Bone/surgery , Lameness, Animal/diagnostic imaging , Lameness, Animal/surgery , Orthopedic Procedures/methods , Surgery, Veterinary/methods , Tibia/injuries , Treatment Outcome
3.
Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol ; 25(5): 410-7, 2012.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22828876

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVES: To compare fracture healing in diaphyseal tibial fractures stabilized using either minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO) or open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF). METHODS: Dogs in each group were matched for type of fracture, age and body weight. Stage of healing was measured blindly every four weeks postoperatively until complete healing. Outcome variables including fracture length, plate length, plate bridging ratio, plate working length, healing grading, and fracture reduction were compared between groups using the Mann-Whitney test. Significant difference was set at p <0.05. RESULTS: Based on the definition of clinical union, at 30 days five out of eight dogs managed with MIPO had healed, while two of the eight of dogs managed with ORIF had healed. We did not find any significant differences in the other outcome measures. No complications were reported in the MIPO group whereas one major complication was reported in the ORIF group. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: All dogs treated by MIPO healed rapidly without any complications, nevertheless the difference in radiographic healing between the two groups was not significant.


Subject(s)
Bone Plates/veterinary , Dog Diseases/surgery , Fracture Fixation, Internal/veterinary , Tibia/surgery , Tibial Fractures/veterinary , Animals , Dogs , Fracture Fixation, Internal/instrumentation , Fracture Fixation, Internal/methods , Retrospective Studies , Tibia/pathology , Tibial Fractures/surgery
5.
Parasitology ; 125(Pt 6): 561-5, 2002 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12553575

ABSTRACT

Low doses of the acetylcholinesterase-inhibiting carbamate nematicides disrupt chemoreception in plant-parasitic nematodes. Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)/dextran conjugates up to 12 kDa are taken up from the external medium by certain chemosensory neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans. Similar chemoreceptive neurons of the non-feeding infective stage of Heterodera glycines (soybean cyst nematode) fill with FITC and the nuclei of their cell bodies selectively stain with bisbenzimide. The widely used nematicide aldicarb disrupts the chemoreceptive response of H. glycines with 50% inhibition at very low concentrations (ca 1 pM), some 10(-6)-fold lower than required to affect locomotion. Similarly, the anthelmintic levamisole had this effect at 1 nM. Peptides selected as mimetics of aldicarb and levamisole also disrupt chemoreception in H. glycines and Globodera pallida at 10(-3)-fold or lower concentration than required to inhibit locomotion. We propose an uptake pathway for aldicarb, levamisole, peptide mimetics and other soluble molecules by retrograde transport along dendrites of chemoreceptive neurons to the cell bodies and synapses where they act. This may prove to be a general mechanism for the low-dose effects of some nematicides and anthelmintics.


Subject(s)
Aldicarb/metabolism , Aldicarb/pharmacology , Caenorhabditis elegans/drug effects , Chemoreceptor Cells/drug effects , Chemoreceptor Cells/metabolism , Pesticides/metabolism , Pesticides/pharmacology , Animals , Biological Transport, Active , Caenorhabditis elegans/cytology , Dendrites/drug effects , Dendrites/metabolism , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Insecticides/metabolism , Insecticides/pharmacology , Neurons/drug effects , Neurons/metabolism
6.
Int J Parasitol ; 30(11): 1173-6, 2000 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11027783

ABSTRACT

Helminthologically naIve 6-week-old Suffolk lambs were given 1-3 doses of 20000 gamma-irradiated infective larvae (L3) of the nematode Nematodirus battus at weekly intervals. Following an anthelmintic drench they were challenged with 50000 viable L3 at 10 weeks of age. Nematode worm burdens 14 days post-challenge showed a significant (P<0.01) 66% reduction in the single vaccine dose group. The two and three dose groups had mean worm burdens which were 30 and 42% lower than controls, respectively, although these were not statistically significant. There was little measurable stimulation of the immune system in the vaccinated lambs, suggesting that the repeatedly dosed animals may have developed immunological unresponsiveness to the parasite.


Subject(s)
Sheep Diseases/parasitology , Trichostrongyloidea/immunology , Trichostrongyloidiasis/veterinary , Vaccination/veterinary , Animals , Antibodies, Protozoan/blood , Antigens, Protozoan/analysis , Cobalt Radioisotopes , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay/veterinary , Eosinophils/immunology , Female , Gamma Rays , Intestine, Small/parasitology , Larva/immunology , Larva/radiation effects , Male , Mast Cells/immunology , Sheep , Sheep Diseases/immunology , Sheep Diseases/prevention & control , Trichostrongyloidea/radiation effects , Trichostrongyloidiasis/immunology , Trichostrongyloidiasis/prevention & control
7.
J Helminthol ; 71(2): 133-8, 1997 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9192712

ABSTRACT

Old lambs (8 months of age) infected with 50,000 L3 of Nematodirus battus had larvae developing normally in their tissues on day 4 post-infection (P.I.), but by day 8 P.I. there were only 4105 +/- 1044 worms left in the alimentary tract. Some of these worms contained crystals in their intestine. Eight-month-old lambs treated with dexamethasone and infected with 50,000 L3 of N. battus contained a mean worm burden of 7878 +/- 1262 on 18 days P.I. Untreated 8-month-old lambs similarly infected were virtually worm free by day 18 P.I. Peripheral eosinophilia became elevated in the untreated lambs over the course of infection and, at post-mortem, the tissue mast cell and eosinophil counts were much higher than in the dexamethasone treated group. Although the phenomenon of age resistance is thought to have a strong immunological component, there may also be other physiological factors, resulting in fewer nematodes and lower fecundity of the worms.


Subject(s)
Aging/immunology , Dexamethasone/pharmacology , Glucocorticoids/pharmacology , Nematode Infections/immunology , Sheep Diseases/immunology , Sheep Diseases/parasitology , Animals , Antibodies, Helminth/biosynthesis , Cell Count , Eosinophils/immunology , Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/immunology , Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/parasitology , Mast Cells/immunology , Nematoda/physiology , Sheep , Time Factors
8.
Parasitology ; 114 ( Pt 2): 189-93, 1997 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9051925

ABSTRACT

Helminthologically naive 8-week-old lambs were administered 50,000 infective-stage larvae of the trichostrongyle nematode Nematodirus battus. Initial mean adult worm burdens were significantly reduced (P < 0.01) at day 21 post-infection (p.i.). Peripheral blood eosinophil counts showed a significant increase (P < 0.001) by day 25 p.i. when compared with uninfected control animals. Sections of small intestine taken at post-mortem from the area of adult worm establishment over the course of infection showed a significant increase in mucosal eosinophil and mast cell numbers during the period of adult worm rejection, when compared with uninfected control animals. These results show that young lambs develop significant increases in the numbers of cells associated with an inflammatory reaction in the intestine during the development of a partially protective immune response to this parasitic nematode.


Subject(s)
Eosinophils/physiology , Mast Cells/physiology , Trichostrongyloidea/growth & development , Trichostrongyloidiasis/physiopathology , Animals , Larva , Leukocyte Count , Sheep , Time Factors , Trichostrongyloidea/isolation & purification , Trichostrongyloidiasis/blood , Trichostrongyloidiasis/pathology
9.
Parasitology ; 113 ( Pt 5): 491-6, 1996 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8893535

ABSTRACT

Young lambs (6-8 weeks of age) were infected with 50000 infective stage larvae of the trichostrongyle nematode Nematodirus battus. Initial mean adult worm burdens of 23884 +/- 1678 (S.E.M.) at day 14 post-infection (p.i.) were reduced significantly (P < 0.01) to a mean burden of 5383 +/- 1397 by day 21 p.i. Blood samples were taken and serum analysed using ELISA and Western blotting techniques for IgG antibodies specific for N. battus. Pre-infection serum from young naive animals showed IgG recognition of adult and larval N. battus whole worm homogenate. Recognition of adult antigens became reduced during the first 14 days after infection, followed by a subsequent increase beginning between days 14 and 18 p.i. and peaking at day 28 p.i. IgM recognition of N. battus antigens showed a single response peak, starting between days 14 and 18 p.i., without the pre-infection elevated titre as observed with IgG. These results show that young lambs can mount a significant serum response to a primary infection with N. battus during rejection of adult worms and that lambs receive from their dams IgG antibodies that are capable of recognizing adult and larval N. battus during the first few weeks of life.


Subject(s)
Antibodies, Helminth/blood , Sheep Diseases/immunology , Trichostrongyloidiasis/veterinary , Animals , Blotting, Western , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Immunoglobulin G/blood , Immunoglobulin M/blood , Sheep , Time Factors , Trichostrongyloidiasis/immunology
10.
Parasitology ; 109 ( Pt 1): 129-34, 1994 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8058363

ABSTRACT

The isometric mechanical properties of diaphragm muscle were studied in mice infected with either Trichinella spiralis or Trichinella pseudospiralis. Measurements of muscle stress were taken at 15, 20, 30 and 40 days post-infection. Infected diaphragm muscle showed a significant (P < 0.001) reduction in muscle stress during both twitch and tetanic contractions when compared with muscle from control animals. T. spiralis caused a significant reduction in resistance to muscle fatigue. The consequences of these changes in muscle function to host pathology are discussed, and related to previous work on the effects of Trichinella on host biochemistry and the immune response.


Subject(s)
Diaphragm/parasitology , Muscle Contraction , Trichinella spiralis/physiology , Trichinella/physiology , Trichinellosis/physiopathology , Animals , Biomechanical Phenomena , Diaphragm/physiopathology , Female , Mice , Trichinella/growth & development , Trichinella spiralis/growth & development , Trichinellosis/parasitology
11.
Dist Nurs ; 10(12): 264, 266, 1968 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-5184294

Subject(s)
Diabetes Mellitus , Nursing
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