Publications by authors named "C Gilroy"
Article Synopsis
- * This case study details a 15-year-old spayed female cat showing symptoms like weight loss and increased thirst, where a urine examination revealed abnormal lymphocytes indicative of T-cell renal lymphoma.
- * The study highlights the value of cytocentrifuged urine evaluations, emphasizing their role in detecting neoplastic cells, which can be an important diagnostic tool in veterinary medicine.
Background: As hyperkalemia may be life-threatening, it is critical to recognize artifactually increased potassium concentrations. Pseudohyperkalemia may occur in myopathies when using the VetScan2 analyzer (VS2), but the degree of pseudohyperkalemia and relationships relative to creatine kinase activity (CK) are unknown.
Objectives: We aimed to determine what degree of muscle enzyme leakage, as reflected by increased serum CK activity, results in cases with falsely elevated potassium concentrations when measured by the VS2.
Background: Cellular deterioration occurs with blood sample aging, impacting white blood cell (WBC) identification and differential accuracy. This may be exacerbated in samples from patients experiencing inflammation. Previously, bovine serum albumin (BSA) has been shown to improve cellular preservation of blood and other samples, but the effect on cell preservation in canine blood has not been assessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDetection of enantiomers is a challenging problem in drug development as well as environmental and food quality monitoring where traditional optical detection methods suffer from low signals and sensitivity. Application of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for enantiomeric discrimination is a powerful approach for the analysis of optically active small organic or large biomolecules. In this work, we proposed the coupling of disposable chiral plasmonic shurikens supporting the chiral near-field distribution with SERS active silver nanoclusters for enantio-selective sensing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- Some parvoviruses found in dogs can potentially infect various species, with recent discoveries of canine parvoviruses leading to limited knowledge about their host ranges.
- A study in Newfoundland and Labrador found specific strains of canine bocavirus, bufavirus, cachavirus, and canine parvovirus type 2 in free-roaming dogs and local wildlife, indicating distinct viral populations within these species.
- The research revealed genetic similarities between viruses in domestic dogs and coyotes, suggesting possible viral transmission between wild and domestic canids, and highlighted the ongoing presence of older CPV-2 strains in the area that had not been seen since the 1990s.