Chronic eosinophilic keratitis in the cat     

B M Spiess  A Leber  B R von Beust  B Hauser 《Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde》1991,133(3):113-118

A special form of keratitis in the cat is described on the basis of 8 clinical cases. The disease has been known in the United States and the United Kingdom for some time, however, it has, to our knowledge, never been described in Switzerland. This keratitis is characterized by chronicity and infiltration of the cornea by mast cells and eosinophils. It is usually an unilateral and painless condition. We describe the clinical features and diagnostic examinations of the disease. Cytology of a corneal scraping is usually diagnostic. As in the cases described in the literature the cats were successfully treated with oral megestrol acetate. The aetiology of the disease is unknown.  相似文献   

Immunization-induced decrease of the CD4+:CD8+ ratio in cats experimentally infected with feline immunodeficiency virus.     

R Lehmann  B von Beust  E Niederer  M A Condrau  W Fierz  A Aubert  C D Ackley  M D Cooper  M B Tompkins  H Lutz 《Veterinary immunology and immunopathology》1992,35(1-2):199-214

In a previous experiment a group of 15 specified pathogen free (SPF) cats were experimentally infected with a Swiss isolate of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). A group of 15 SPF cats served as FIV negative controls. Nine cats of each group were vaccinated with a recombinant feline leukemia virus (FeLV) vaccine, six cats in each group with a placebo vaccine. All vaccinated cats developed high antibody titers to FeLV and were protected against subsequent FeLV challenge infection. In both control groups five of six cats became persistently infected with FeLV. Unexpectedly, the primary immune response to the vaccine antigen was significantly higher in the FIV positive group than in the FIV negative. The secondary response was stronger in the FIV negative cats. The goal of the present investigation was to further study the immune response in these 30 cats. They were immunized twice with the synthetic peptide L-tyrosine-L-glutamic acid-poly(DL-alanine)-poly(L-lysine) (TGAL) 21 days apart. Blood samples were collected on four occasions during the immunization process. They were tested for antibodies to TGAL, complete blood cell counts and CD4+, CD8+ and pan-T-lymphocyte counts. The following observations were made: (1) in contrast to the FeLV vaccine experiment, the primary immune response to TGAL was not significantly stronger in the FIV positive cats when tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (2). The absolute size of the CD4+ lymphocyte population was distinctly smaller in the FIV positive than in the FIV negative cats. The lowest CD4+ values were found in the dually FIV/FeLV infected cats. (3) A population of CD8+ lymphocytes was identified that was characterized by a distinctly weaker fluorescence. The size of this population increased in FIV positive and decreased in FIV negative cats during the TGAL immunization experiment. (4) The CD4+:CD8+ ratio increased in FIV negative cats during TGAL immunization from 1.9 to 2.3. In contrast, in FIV positive animals the CD4+:CD8+ ratio decreased significantly from 1.9 to 1.3 during the same period. From these and earlier data it was concluded that in short-term FIV infection the immune response to T-cell dependent antigens may be increased over that of the controls. Immune suppression develops gradually with duration of the infection. The significant drop of the CD4+:CD8+ ratio over a 5 week immunization period suggests that antigenic stimulation may accelerate the development of immune suppression in FIV positive cats. If this is a general feature, FIV infection may provide a particularly interesting model for studying the pathogenesis of AIDS.  相似文献   

    

W. von Wettstein 《Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt》1942,64(6):135-143

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Saatgut und Züchtung     

W. von Wettstein 《European Journal of Forest Research》1942,64(6):135-143

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von Schünberg und von Jollh 《Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt》1895,17(3):182-183

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Comparative studies on susceptibility of viruses to ultraviolet rays     

H S von Brodorotti  H Mahnel 《Zentralblatt für Veterin?rmedizin. Reihe B. Journal of veterinary medicine. Series B》1982,29(2):129-136

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Book reviews     

K. F. Panzer  H. -J. von Maydell 《Agroforestry Systems》1983,1(3):275-276

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Frequency and occurrence of Lactobacillus acidophilus in the gut of the pig, as indicated by its presence in the faeces     

M H von Aulock  W H Holzapfel 《The Onderstepoort journal of veterinary research》1987,54(4):581-583

Faecal samples of 2 pigs, kept on a constant diet, were analysed for Lactobacillus acidophilus and other lactic acid bacteria at 1 week intervals over a period of 3 months. Enumeration of L. acidophilus by selective methods was verified by phenotypic identification of representative isolates. The total lactic acid bacteria (LAB) population ranged between 10(8) and 10(10) colony-forming units per gram of faeces over the 3 months period. L. acidophilus contributed on average a relatively constant figure of 10% to the total LAB population.  相似文献   

Classification of lung carcinomas in the dog and cat   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J E Moulton  C von Tscharner  R Schneider 《Veterinary pathology》1981,18(4):513-528

A total of 218 lung carcinomas from dogs and cats were examined histologically. The tumors were classified into adenocarcinoma, squamous-cell carcinoma, bronchial gland carcinoma, and alveolar-cell carcinoma. We believe that adenocarcinoma should be subdivided into differentiated and undifferentiated types because the two are distinct histologically and vary in frequency in the cat and dog. It is also important to recognize bronchial gland carcinoma, a distinct histological type, and to subdivide alveolar-cell carcinoma into three separate types: anaplastic small-cell and large-cell types, and adenomatosis type.  相似文献   

Hardness evaluation of the hoof horn of fattening swine using the Shore D. hardness evaluation device     

A von der Schulenburg 《DTW. Deutsche tier?rztliche Wochenschrift》1985,92(11-12):470-473

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