Publications by authors named "A Sukura"

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women. Likewise, canine mammary tumors (CMT) represent the most common cancer in intact female dogs and develop in the majority spontaneously. Similarities exist in clinical presentation, histopathology, biomarkers, and treatment.

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The dog, Canis lupus familiaris, is an important model for studying human diseases. Unlike many model organisms, the dog genome has a comparatively poor functional annotation, which hampers gene discovery for development, morphology, disease, and behavior. To fill this gap, we established a comprehensive tissue biobank for both the dog and wolf samples.

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  • - The study assessed the prevalence of endoparasites in dogs and cats in Finland, finding 3.5% in dogs, 3.6% in pet cats, and a staggering 41.3% in shelter cats, indicating significant disparities between household pets and those in shelters.
  • - Common parasites in dogs included Toxocara canis (0.9%) and strongylid eggs (1.7%), while Toxocara cati (3.3%) was prevalent in pet cats; shelter cats had higher rates of multiple parasites, including T. cati at 34.8%.
  • - The study highlighted that a substantial 31.2% of dogs were dewormed less than once
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Pet dogs are a valuable natural animal model for studying relationships between primary immunodeficiencies and susceptibility to and other opportunistic respiratory pathogens. Certain breeds, such as the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, are over-represented for pneumonia (PCP), suggesting the presence of a primary immunodeficiency in the breed. Here, we report the discovery of a nonsense variant in three Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dogs with either PCP (n = 2) or refractory pneumonia (n = 1).

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According to our recent necropsy-based study, mastitis is the most common underlying diagnosis of on-farm deaths in Finnish dairy cows. However, it remained unanswered to what extent mastitis has contributed to death of all necropsied cows. In the present study, based on histopathology, we detected one-third of the necropsied dairy cows having active inflammatory udder lesions (n = 110).

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