Thermal aerial culling for the control of vertebrate pest populations.

Helicopter-based shooting is an effective management tool for large vertebrate pest animals. However, animals in low-density populations and/or dense habitat can be difficult to locate visually. Thermal-imaging technology can increase detections in these conditions.

Successful transfer of a Goodfellow's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus goodfellowi) pouch young to a yellow-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) surrogate.

A 47-day-old orphaned Goodfellow's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus goodfellowi) joey was successfully cross-fostered onto a yellow-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus). The joey was subsequently taken for hand-rearing at age 5 months. This is the first report of the cross-fostering technique, well-established in other macropods, being applied to a Dendrolagus sp.

Influence of salmeterol/fluticasone via single versus separate inhalers on exacerbations in severe/very severe COPD.

Background: Patients with severe or very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) frequently suffer repeated exacerbations generating high health care utilization costs. Combined corticosteroid and bronchodilator treatment using a single inhaler might - via improved compliance - reduce exacerbation rates.

Objectives: Our aim was to obtain descriptive data on exacerbation rates in patients with severe or very severe COPD (GOLD Stages III and IV as per GOLD 2009 classification) receiving salmeterol xinafoate/fluticasone propionate via a single inhaler (SFC) or via separate inhalers (Sal/FP) in addition to individual existing therapy in order to investigate the potential benefit of a fixed combination device as compared with two separate devices due to potentially improved patients' compliance.

Low dose estriol pessaries for the treatment of vaginal atrophy: a double-blind placebo-controlled trial investigating the efficacy of pessaries containing 0.2mg and 0.03mg estriol.

Objective: The aim of the study was to confirm the superior efficacy of estriol containing pessaries compared to placebo in the treatment of vaginal atrophy.

Study Design: In a prospective, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study, 436 postmenopausal women with vaginal atrophy (vaginal maturation index, VMI<40%; vaginal pH>5; most bothersome symptom, MBS≥65 on visual analogue scale, VAS) were treated with pessaries containing either 0.2mg estriol (N=142) or 0.

[Direct-current treatment of chemically induced mammary carcinoma in an animal model: MR volumetric assessment of the effect of the therapy].

Purpose: To investigate the effect of direct current treatment (DCT) on the growth of mammary carcinomas in rats by MR-volumetry.

Methods: Chemically induced mammary adenocarcinomas in a control group (n = 17) were compared with treated tumours (18 C/cm3 in group A: n = 7 or 36 C/cm3 in group B: n = 12). 31 untreated tumours were situated near a treated tumour (group C).

Unrecognized incomplete cervical spinal cord injury: review of nine new and 28 previously reported cases.

Nine patients with unrecognized incomplete cervical spinal cord injury are discussed. Four were sent home as normal, three were called hysterical, and two went undiagnosed during stupor or coma. A literature search revealed 28 additional cases.

Quinidine-induced reactive lymphadenopathy.

This report describes a patient who presented with extensive inguinal lymphadenopathy while taking quinidine for the treatment of arrhythmias. An excisional lymph node biopsy specimen demonstrated atypical, reactive, follicular hyperplasia. Immunologic assessment utilizing 20 monoclonal antibodies indicated a reactive process with follicles shown to be polyclonal B cell.

Immunophenotypes in "well-differentiated" lymphoproliferative disorders, with emphasis on small lymphocytic lymphoma.

The histologic, immunophenotypic, and clinical findings in 24 cases of "well-differentiated" lymphoproliferative disorders are presented, with an emphasis on small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL; well-differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma, WDLL). SLL was diagnosed in 18 patients, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia in one, mantle zone lymphoma (MZL) in four, and intermediate differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma (IDL) in one. Immunophenotypic analysis revealed one SLL to be of T-cell derivation, while a monoclonal B-cell phenotype was found in the remaining 23 patients; 20 of these neoplasms co-expressed the pan-T-cell antigen Leu-1.

Primary amyloidosis associated with multiple myeloma. Predictors of successful therapy.

Of 34 patients with primary amyloidosis seen at the University of Arizona between 1973 and 1984, 25 had amyloidosis in association with overt multiple myeloma. Response to treatment was evaluable in 16 of the 25 patients. Median survival in the seven patients (44 percent) with response to treatment was 28 months versus a median of seven and a half months for the nine patients without response (p less than 0.

Differentiation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia from other "well to intermediate differentiated" lymphoproliferative disorders by the mouse rosette assay.

The usefulness of the mouse rosette (MR) assay in differentiating among various "well to intermediate differentiated" lymphoproliferative disorders (LPD) is presented. Thirty patients with a suspected LPD were studied. By standard histologic, cytologic, immunologic (surface immunoglobulin and monoclonal antibody markers), and clinical criteria, the following diagnoses (independent of MR data) were made: chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) (n = 12), CLL in transformation (n = 2), well-differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma (WDLL) (n = 5), intermediate-differentiated lymphoma (IDL) (n = 2), hairy cell leukemia (HCL) (n = 3), prolymphocytic leukemic (PLL) (n = 1), poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma (PDL) (n = 1), and no disease or reactive lymphocytosis (n = 4).

Peripheral T-cell lymphoma: aggressive disease with heterogeneous immunotypes.

Eleven patients with mature or peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTL), other than mycosis fungoides, were identified using an extensive battery of T- and B-cell markers. Eight cases had a histologic diagnosis of either diffuse large cell or mixed lymphoma, three of small cell type. All cases had one or more "mature" T-antigens and an absence of B- and immature T-antigens.