A three-year-old, unspayed mongrel was presented to Small Animal Medicine unit, TVCC, River with a history of inability to open the mouth, not taking feed or water, drooling of saliva, and dullness for the past 5 days. Upon clinical observation and laboratory examination the condition was diagnosed as chronic Masticatory Muscle Myositis (MMM) and was treated with immunosuppressive doses ofcorti...

Superior mesenteric artery occlusion (SMAO) is often fatal. An indicator which enables the early diagnosis of SMAO is needed. As we think putrefaction products must appear and increase in the blood and ascites in SMAO, changes in the concentrations of ammonia, one of the putrefaction products, were measured in this study. Thirteen adult mongrel dogs were used for the in vitro experiment. The je...

Renal tubular secretion of uric acid has been demonstrated in several mammalian species including the rabbit (1), mongrel and Dalmatian dog (24), and man (7). Although secretion was easily delineated in the Dalmatian coach hound (4-6), special experimental conditions were necessary for its substantiation in other species. Uric acid clearance in excess of simultaneous creatinine clearance, indic...

Interarterial anastomoses in .young pigs have been compared with those in mongrel dogs by direct flow measurements during life and by injections after death. Results indicate that pigs have minimal functional collaterals in comparison with dogs and that injection studies roughly predict the degree of collateral function. The data indicate that the extent of collateral development in dogs is ind...

Livers from chickens, rats, mongrel dogs, Dalmatian dogs, and man have been examined in the electron microscope in order to compare the microbodies with the known content of uricase. It is concluded that microbodies with inclusion are present in rats, mongrel dogs, and, although the inclusion generally is smaller, in Dalmatian dogs. The inclusion has a characteristic structural appearance. Thes...