Objective: to investigate immunotropic activity of the argenine-containing neuropeptide compound Lys-Lys-Arg-Arg-Pro-Gly-Pro in conditions "social" stress. Material and methods. The study was conducted on mongrel male rats 6 months age using a model stress based provision permanent residence animals sensory contact, as result which submissive aggressive types behavior were formed. All divided i...

Welfare concerns are growing regarding surgical castration (SC) in pets, necessitating the need for non-surgical alternatives. Administration of vaccines against gonadotropins releasing hormone (GnRH) have been reported as alternative to SC. This study determined the effect of surgical and immunological castrations (IC) on complete blood counts, plasma testosterone (T), luteinizing hormone (LH)...

Papillary muscle infarction was produced in 16 mongrel dogs by placing sutures around the base of one of the papillary muscles. In addition, patchy infarction of the adjacent left ventricular wall was produced by placing an Ameroid constrictor around the appropriate coronary artery. Mitral insufficiency developed in 14 of these animals; it was severe in four and mild to moderate in ten. Mitral ...

BACKGROUND With the development of surgical techniques and biomedical material, increasing synthetic materials are applied to the chest wall reconstruction, such as autologous rib, muscle flap, bovine pericardium and sheet metal. AIM To detect the safety and efficiency of synthetic material Polydioxanone (PDO) in chest wall reconstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Healthy adult mongrel dogs op...

The effects of electroacupuncture (EA) on intraocular pressure (IOP) and hemodynamic parameters were evaluated in isoflurane anesthetized 10 (5 males, 5 females) normal mongrel dogs (8.1-9.8 kg, 6-8 years old). After determination of baseline IOP and hemodynamic parameters (cardiac index, systolic arterial pressure, diastolic arterial pressure, heart rate and systemic vascular resistance index)...

The aim of this study was to evaluate, histopathologically, the effectiveness of mechanical preparation of root canals using different irrigating solutions in dog teeth filled with LPS after pulpectomy. A total of 120 root canals of 6 mongrel dogs were filled with a solution of LPS after pulpectomy. The irrigating solutions used were saline, 1, 2.5, and 5% sodium hypochlorite, and 2% chlorhexid...

Metrizamide computed tomography (CT) myelography is clinically useful in the detection of syringohydromyelia. The mechanism by which intrathecally injected metrizamide migrates into the intramedullary cavity is unknown, although reflux into the central canal of the cord via the obex has been postulated. Since intrathecally injected metrizamide has been shown to penetrate normal brain, similar p...

In five healthy mongrel female cats used, four cats (Cats 1-4) were experimentally inoculated with 100-123 larvae (L(3)) of Dirofilaria immitis. Cat 5 was an uninfected control. Only Cat 1 became microfilaremic on Day 201 after inoculation and the diurnal changes in the microfilaria population were monitored every 2 h for 24 h on Day 237 when a sufficient number of microfilaria were detected in...