[Experimental testicular torsion: its effect on the contralateral testicle]. / Torsión testicular experimental: efecto en el testículo contralateral.

The purpose of this project is to determine the lesion in contralateral testis after unilateral testicular torsion. For that is reproduced the lesion in an experimental model animal using 35-45 days old Wistar rats. The study of the contralateral testis is performed 30-35 days after lesion, once orchiectomy with histopathological and ultrastructural analysis, was made. We observed zonal tubular atrophy, alteration of spermatogenesis, abnormal formation of spermatozoa and death cellular by apoptosis.

Leishmania infection of canine skin fibroblasts in vivo.

In this paper we describe two cases of naturally occurring leishmaniasis in dogs in which Leishmania sp. amastigotes are found within the cytoplasm of fibroblasts. The infected cells were identified histologically, immunohistochemically, and ultrastructurally as fibroblasts. This is the first report of leishmaniasis in any species in which amastigotes were identified in vivo within fibroblasts.