• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2022

Caval syndrome is a severe complication of canine heartworm disease in which affected dogs present with various clinical signs that are often life-threatening. In cases of severe infection, adulticidal treatment has numerous complications as a result of a marked immune response against dead worms. Therefore, several surgical and non-surgical methods, including interventional extraction, have been applied in veterinary medicine. Despite the usefulness and efficiency of conventional retrieval devices, a few associated limitations must be addressed to reduce their risks and increase their applicability. Herein, we introduced a case of treating three dogs with caval syndrome by applying a newly developed heartworm basket device. The dogs were diagnosed with heartworm disease by heartworm antigen testing and direct smear. Imaging findings revealed remarkable remodeling of the right heart and pulmonary vessels and the presence of heartworms in the right heart. Additionally, heartworms were confirmed in the distal part of the abdominal aorta and femoral arteries in one dog, indicating aberrant systemic migration of the worms. Under general anesthesia, the heartworm basket device was introduced into the right heart via femoral venotomy and arteriotomy in one dog and jugular venotomy in the other two dogs. Although the number of cases in this study was small, the basket device was successful in gradual and cautious extraction of the heartworms in all three dogs. They exhibited good prognosis of clinical symptoms as indicated by imaging analyses.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.37.1-37.10
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• 2024

Importance: The portal vein to aorta (PV/Ao) ratio is used to assess the clinical significance of extrahepatic portosystemic shunt (EHPSS). Previous studies using computed tomography (CT) were conducted in dogs but not in cats. Objective: This study aimed to establish normal reference values for PV indices (PV/Ao ratio and PV diameter) in cats and determine the usefulness of these for predicting symptomatic EHPSS. Methods: This study included 95 dogs and 114 cats that underwent abdominal CT. The canine normal (CN) group included dogs without EHPSS. The cats were classified into feline normal (FN, 88/114), feline asymptomatic (FA, 16/114), and feline symptomatic (FS, 10/114) groups. The PV and Ao diameters were measured in axial cross-sections. Results: The group FN had a higher PV/Ao ratio than the group CN (p < 0.001). Within the feline groups, the PV indices were in the order FN > FA > FS (both p < 0.001). The mean PV diameter and PV/Ao ratio for group FN were 5.23±0.77 mm and 1.46±0.19, respectively. The cutoff values between groups FN and FS were 4.115 mm for PV diameter (sensitivity, 100%; specificity, 97.7%) and 1.170 for PV/Ao ratio (90%, 92.1%). The cutoff values between group FA and FS were 3.835 mm (90%, 93.8%) and 1.010 (70%, 100%), respectively. Conclusions and Relevance: The results demonstrated significant differences in PV indices between dogs and cats. In cats, the PV/Ao ratio demonstrated high diagnostic performance for symptomatic EHPSS. The PV diameter also performed well, in contrast to dogs.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제82권2호
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• pp.487-492
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• 2021

Immunoglobulin G4 (이하 IgG4)연관 질환은 풍부한 IgG4 형질세포 형태의 림프형질 세포 침윤과 현저한 섬유아세포 증식을 특징으로 하는 전신 질환이다. 일반적으로 IgG4 연관 질환의 후복막강 발현은 복부 대동맥을 둘러싸거나, 요관을 압박하여 수신증을 일으키는 연조직의 형태로 나타난다. 우리는 75세 여성 환자에서 발생한 비전형적인 IgG4 연관 질환의 후복막강 발현에 대해 보고하고자 한다. 수술 전 전산화단층촬영에서 정상 해부학적 경계를 넘어서는 침윤성 성질을 가진 불규칙한 형태의 후복막강의 종괴가 관찰되었으며, 이는 악성 혹은 염증성 상태가 의심되었다. 조영증강 촬영에서 종괴는 균일한 점진적인 조영증강을 보였다.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.32.1-32.14
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• 2024

Background: Aortic arch (AA) branching patterns vary among different mammalian species. Most previous studies have focused on dogs, whereas those on raccoon dogs remain unexplored. Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe the AA branching pattern in raccoon dogs and compare their morphological features with those of other carnivores. Methods: We prepared silicone cast specimens from a total of 36 raccoon dog carcasses via retrograde injection through the abdominal aorta. The brachiocephalic trunk (BCT) branching patterns were classified based on the relationship between the left and right common carotid arteries. The subclavian artery (SB) branching pattern was examined based on the order of the four major branches: the vertebral artery (VT), costocervical trunk (CCT), superficial cervical artery (SC), and internal thoracic artery (IT). Results: In most cases (88.6%), the BCT branched off from the left common carotid artery and terminated in the right common carotid and right subclavian arteries. In the remaining cases (11.4%), the BCT formed a bicarotid trunk. The SB exhibited various branching patterns, with 26 observed types. Based on the branching order of the four major branches, we identified the main branching pattern, in which the VT branched first (98.6%), the CCT branched second (81.9%), the SC branched third (62.5%), and the IT branched fourth (52.8%). Conclusions: The AA branching pattern in raccoon dogs exhibited various branching patterns with both similarities and differences compared to other carnivores.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.353-358
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• 2009

편측 수뇨관증과 수신증으로 내원한 개에서 편측성 신요관절제술을 시행하였다. 개복 시 유착조직이 신장의 안쪽 면에서부터 복대동맥 위까지 형성되어 있었으며, 등쪽안쪽면과 복대동맥 사이에 유착조직이 형성되어 있었다. 또한 좌측 난소가 신장의 꼬리쪽 극에 유착되어 있었다. 유착조직의 형성으로 인해 신장 동맥과 정맥을 구별하여 결찰하는 것이 불가능 하였기 때문에 신장의 안쪽면 두 곳에서 집단결찰을 시행한 후 유착조직을 신장의 안쪽면에서 분리하였다. 신장의 등쪽안쪽면과 복대동맥사이에 형성된 유착조직으로부터 신장을 분리하기 위해 유착조직을 절개해 나갈때 신장동맥의 절제로 인한 출혈이 발생하였다. 출혈의 원인은 복대동맥에서 분지되어 나온 신장동맥부위가 신장의 등쪽안쪽면과 유착이 되어있었기 때문에 신장의 안쪽면에 적용한 집단결찰에 신장동맥이 포함되지 못하였던 것으로 생각된다. 발생된 출혈은 절제된 신장동맥의 이중결찰과 전기소락기를 이용하여 멈추게 하였다. 본 증례를 통해, 신장이 주변복강 장기와 심하게 유착되어 신장 동, 정맥을 구별하여 결찰하기 힘든 경우 집단 결찰법을 선택할 수 있으며, 집단결찰법은 해부학적으로 신장 동, 정맥이 신장으로 들어가는 안쪽면 뿐만 아니라 유착이 형성된 신장의 모든 면에 선택적으로 적용되어야 한다고 생각한다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.239-246
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• 2008

배경: 고위험환자에서 대동맥 수술은 사망률 및 합병증 발생률이 높으며, 악성종양이 동반된 환자에서는 기대여명이 짧으므로 대동맥 수술의 필요성에 대해 의문을 가질 수 있다. 대동맥내 스텐트 그라프트의 삽입은 대동맥 수술에 비해 침습도가 떨어지며, 회복기간이 짧아 고위험 환자 및 악성종양 환자에게 고려될 수 있다. 특히, 경피적으로 삽입 가능한 스텐트 그라프트는 전신마취의 필요성이 없어 고위험 환자에서 더 유용하게 사용될 수 있다. 대상 및 방법: 2003년 7월부터 2007년 9월까지 근치적 절제술이 불가능한 악성종양을 가진 환자 또는 동반질환으로 인해 대동맥 수술시 합병증 발생의 위험도가 높은 12명의 환자에서 경피적으로 대동맥 스텐트 그라프트의 삽입이 시행되었다. 삽입의 적응증이 된 대동맥 질환은 복부대동맥류가 5례, 흉부대동맥류가 6례, 급성대동맥 박리증이 1례이었다. 동반질환으로 악성종양이 3례, 호흡기 질환이 6례, 고령 및 신경계 질환이 6례, 베체트 병이 1례, 만성 신부전증이 1례이었다. 결과: 전례에서 경피적으로 스텐트 그라프트의 삽입이 가능하였다. 이 중 4례에서 원내사망이 있었고, 추적관찰 기간 중 3례의 만기사망이 있었다. 원내사망 1례를 제외하고는 대동맥 질환으로 인한 사망은 없었다. 합병증으로는 경도의 뇌졸중이 1례가 발생하였으며, 급성 신부전증 및 허혈성 장괴사가 각각 2 및 1례에서 발생하였다. 그라프트 주위유출 (endoleak)은 스텐트 그라프트 삽입 직후 2명에서 경도의 1형의 주위유출이 관찰되었고, 2형 그라프트 주위유출이 1명에서 발견되었다. 외래추적기간 중 1명에서 새로운 1형의 그라프트 주위유출이 발생하였다. 결론: 고위험 환자 및 기대여명이 짧은 악성종양 환자의 대동맥 질환에서 경피적 스텐트 그라프트의 사용은 비교적 안전한 방법으로 고려해 볼만한 치료법이나, 아직 적응증이나 장기성적에 대해서는 더 논의가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2014

PURPOSE: In this study, we tried to find out what kind of exercise was more effective in sleep disorder by comparing melatonin in blood after applying low intensity with high intensity exercise to sleep disordered rats induced by experiment. METHODS: We used male Sprague-Dawley rats which were 8weeks old and weighted 300g. They were supplied with water and food without any restriction. We kept the room temperature at $25^{\circ}C$ and controld the length of day and night in 12 hours blocks, respectively. We divided the rats 60 into 2 groups. To one group we applied low intensity exercise, and to the other we applied high intensity exercise for 15minutes per day over a period of 4 weeks. We extracted the blood from abdominal aorta before, after exercise, moved into EDTA tube, performed centrifugation. We decanted the serum $200{\mu}l$ from the blood into microcentrifuge tube by samples and moved into polypropylene culture tubes with micro pipette. We split enzyme solution $50{\mu}l$ into the tubes with melatonin direct kits and make them react at $37^{\circ}C$ for 2 hours. We split assay buffer $50{\mu}l$ into each tube and mixed melatonin tracer $50{\mu}l$ and melatonin antiserum $50{\mu}l$, respectively. After we made them react in room temperature, we decanted the superficial layer with a centrifuge and measured the activity for 1 minute by competitive method with ${\gamma}$-counter equipment. We draw a standard curve through logit-log graph with CPM(counts per minute) and counted the melatonin by B/B0. We conducted independent t-test to examine the homogeneous of melatonin value of before low-intensity and high-intensity exercise. We performed paired t-test to compare before and after low-intensity and high-intensity exercise, respectively. We carried out independent t-test to compare melatonin value after low-intensity and high-intensity exercise. Significance level was .05. RESULTS: The results were as follows; firstly melatonin was more increased in the group who was exposed to high intensity exercise when we compared before to after high and low intensity exercise, respectively. Secondly, high intensity exercise was more effective than low intensity exercise when we compared the two. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, secretion of melatonin which is the material of sleep improvement could be promoted by high intensity exercise. Low intensity exercise acted as a stress rather than improving sleep and had a negative effect on the secretion of melatonin because the melatonin was affected by stress.

• 대한약리학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.37-45
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• 1981

The importance of thyroid hormones for the survival of rats in the cold is along-established fact. Hypothyroid animals are unable to survive in a cold environment. It was also reported that acute exposure of rats, guinea pigs and rabbits to cold produced an increased secretion of TSH and thereby thyroid hormone secretion within 10 to 30 min, but this increase of thyroid activity disappeared quite rapidly during warming. However, in human study no significant difference was found in the concentration of $T_4$, TSH and cortisol between summer and winter. But plasma $T_3$ concentration was increased significantly in winter in 56 adult men. On the other hand, it has been also known that catecholamines are important in the maintenance of body temperature of rat exposured to cold. Abundant evidences suggest that the sympathetic nervous system is involved in the activation of nonshivering thermogenesis and that thyroid hormone metabolism and secretion are influenced by catecholamines and consequently by the activity of the sympatheticadrenal system. Many of the metabolic effects of catecholamines are associated with an increase in the level of cAMP mediated through activation of adenylate cyclase which converts ATP to cAMP. Other studies have shown that thyroid hormones affect the amount of adenylate cyclase present in the adipose tissue. On the other hand. it was also reported that a particulate cAMP phosphodiesterase activity in fat cells was modulated by the action of thyroid hormones. The objective of the present study was to determine the interaction between thyroid activity and cyclic nucleotides during acute exposure to cold. Albino rats weighing around 200 g were used as the experimental animal. The room temperature group was kept at $25^{\circ}C$ and the cold-exposured group was kept at $4^{\circ}C$ for 1 week or 2 weeks. Each group was subdivided into three subgroups; control, KI, and MTU group. At the end of experiment the animals were etherized and blood was taken from abdominal aorta for $T_4,\;T_3$ and cyclic nucleotides. The determinations of $T_3,\;T_4$ and cyclic nucleotides were carried out with a radioimmunoassay(RIA) method. The results were summerized as followings. 1) A significant increase of thyroid weight was observed in rats exposured to cold for 2 weeks. Furthermore, in rats administered MTU while to exposure to cold the thyroid weight was also increased significantly. 2) After 2 weeks $T_3$ concentration in the plasma of cold-exposured rats was significantly increased in KI group and MTU group as well as in control group. On the contrary, after 2 weeks of cold exposure $T_4$ level was decreased in control group. 3) In the case of cyclic nucleotides, plasma cAMP was increased in the control group after 1 or 2 weeks of cold exposure. However, cAMP level in plasma was rather significantly decreased in KI group and MTU group as well as in control group.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.11-15
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• 2009

이산화탄소($CO_2$) 해양격리처리 방안의 실효성을 검토하기 위해서는 해양에 처리된 $CO_2$가 해양생태계 및 해양생물에 미칠 수 있는 영향에 대해서 광범위하게 정보를 축적할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 두족류인 참문어 Octopus vulgaris를 대상으로 고농도 $CO_2$ 환경(1, 2, 3%-$CO_2$)에서의 폐사율 및 1%-$CO_2$ 환경에서의 생리학적 반응에 대해서 조사하였다. 참문어는 혈액채취를 위하여 복부대동맥에 케뉴레이션을 행한 후 호흡실에서 회복시켰다. 회복된 개체에 대하여 헤모림프의 산염기 조절인자에 대한 측정을 행하였다. 참문어는 3%-$CO_2$ 환경에서 72시간 안에 100% 폐사하였다. 헤모림프의 pH는 1%-$CO_2$ 노출 30분 후 유의하게 감소하였으나 실험종료 때까지 회복되지 않았으며, $[HCO_3^-]$는 $CO_2$ 노출 후 유의하게 증가하여 8시간에 7.8 mM를 나타내었으나 그 후 점차 감소하는 경향이었다. 헤모림프 이온$([Cl^-],\;[Na^+],\;[K^+])$들은 유의한 변화를 보이지 않았다. 본 연구 결과 참문어는 방어, 넙치와 같은 경골어류 및 별상어와 같은 판새류보다 $CO_2$에 민감한 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.371-377
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• 2009

The objectives of the present study were to investigate the effects of different dietary ratios of whole-crop corn silage and alfalfa hay on nitrogen (N) digestion, duodenal flow and metabolism across the portal-drained viscera (PDV) of growing beef steers, and to elucidate their relationships. Four steers (236${\pm}$7 kg BW) fitted with duodenal cannulae and chronic indwelling catheters into the portal and mesenteric veins and abdominal aorta were used in a 4${\times}$4 Latin square design. Animals were fed (at 12-h intervals) the 4 diets consisting of whole-crop corn silage (C) and alfalfa hay (A) in 80:20 (C8A2), 60:40 (C6A4), 40:60 (C4A6) and 20:80 (C2A8) ratios of which dietary crude protein (CP) was 10.5, 12.0, 13.5 and 15.0% of dry matter (DM), respectively. Feeding level was restricted to 95% of ad libitum intake to measure N digestion, blood flow and net flux of N across the PDV. Digestibility of DM and neutral detergent fiber and digestible energy intake linearly increased as the ratio of alfalfa hay increased. The N intake, duodenal flow and intestinal disappearance increased linearly with increasing alfalfa hay. Arterial and portal concentrations of ${\alpha}$-amino N showed a quadratic response to increasing levels of alfalfa hay and were the highest in steers fed the C6A4 diet. The net PDV release of ${\alpha}$-amino N and ammonia N increased linearly with increasing alfalfa hay, but urea N uptake by PDV did not differ among diets. As a percentage of apparently digested N in the total gut, net PDV release of ${\alpha}$-amino N linearly decreased from 66 to 48% with increasing alfalfa hay. Conversely, net PDV recovery of ${\alpha}$-amino N to intestinal N disappearance varied with increasing alfalfa hay accounting for 49, 50, 58 and 61% on C8A2, C6A4, C4A6 and C2A8 diets, respectively. Net PDV uptake of urea N, relative to apparently digested N, linearly decreased from 81 to 25% as alfalfa hay increased from 20 to 80% of DM intake. Considering PDV uptake of urea N, microbial efficiency and conversion of total tract digested N to PDV ${\alpha}$-amino N net supply, a diet consisting of 80% whole-crop corn silage and 20% alfalfa hay (10.5% CP) was the best, while considering the quantities of intestinal N disappearance and ${\alpha}$-amino N absorption, a diet of 20% whole-crop corn silage and 80% alfalfa hay (15% CP) would be preferred. The proportion of ${\alpha}$-amino N recovered by PDV relative to the intestinal N disappearance may vary with energy intake level of mixed forage diets.