Clinical, imaging and rhinoscopy findings of dogs and cats with nasal foreign bodies presenting to a UK referral hospital: 71 cases (2010-2022).

Objectives: Description of clinical presentation and diagnostic findings in dogs and cats with confirmed nasal foreign bodies.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive study. Clinical presentation, imaging and rhinoscopy findings of dogs and cats, between January 2010 and December 2022, were reviewed.

Accuracy of low-field magnetic resonance imaging for differentiating intervertebral disc extrusions and protrusions at the lumbosacral disc space in dogs.

Introduction/purpose: MRI features differentiating extrusion from protrusion in thoracolumbar discs have been published, however little specifically evaluates the lumbosacral disc. The high prevalence of degenerative changes in apparently normal animals complicates assessment of this region and features relevant elsewhere in the spine may not apply. The aims of this study were to determine the accuracy of MRI in differentiating IVDE and IVDP at the lumbosacral disc space in dogs and determine which MRI characteristics discriminate between IVDE and IVDP.

Cerebrospinal fluid protein and glucose levels in neonates with a systemic inflammatory response without meningitis.

Background: It has been estimated that paediatric meningitis without elevated CSF white cell count (pleocytosis) accounts for 0.5-12% of all cases of bacterial meningitis. CSF protein and glucose measurements are therefore essential in management but may be neglected in clinical practice.

Deciphering a serum peptide activity associated with biologic clock.

Circadian rhythms have been widely observed in plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria. The periodic rhythm is roughly 24-hour cycle in biochemical, physiological, or behavioral processes in organisms. Although circadian rhythms are endogenously-driven, an organism's circadian clock is adjusted to the environmental stimuli and must maintain the periodicity of biologic rhythm despite the changing kinetics in cellular activities.