Clinical, ultrasonographic, and laboratory findings associated with gallbladder disease and rupture in dogs: 45 cases (1997-2007).

Objective: To identify clinical, laboratory, and ultrasonographic characteristics associated with gallbladder disease and rupture in dogs.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: 45 client-owned dogs.

Utility of diagnostic tests for and medical treatment of pulmonary blastomycosis in dogs: 125 cases (1989-2006).

Objective: To compare results of the most common diagnostic tests for pulmonary blastomycosis in dogs, identify factors associated with outcome, and determine response to various antifungal treatment protocols.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: 125 dogs with pulmonary blastomycosis.

Radiographic findings in dogs with pulmonary blastomycosis: 125 cases (1989-2006).

Objective: To identify radiographic patterns in dogs with pulmonary blastomycosis and radiographic factors associated with outcome.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: 125 dogs with pulmonary blastomycosis.

Evaluation of total and ionized calcium status in dogs with blastomycosis: 38 cases (1997-2006).

Objective: To determine blood ionized calcium (iCa) and serum total calcium (tCa) concentrations in dogs with blastomycosis and to evaluate whether serum tCa concentration, albumin-adjusted serum calcium concentration (AdjCa-Alb), and total protein-adjusted serum calcium concentration (AdjCa-TP) accurately predict iCa status.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: 38 client-owned dogs with a cytologic diagnosis of blastomycosis.

Electrolyte distribution and yolk sac morphology in frozen hydrated equine conceptuses during the second week of pregnancy.

To investigate how equine conceptuses expand rapidly despite the hypo-osmolality of their yolk sac fluid, 18 conceptuses, aged 8-12 days and 0.8-10.0 mm in diameter, were examined by cryoscanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis to determine the distribution of Na, Cl and K in their fluids.

Mucilage production by wounded xylem tissue of maize roots - time course and stimulus.

As a reaction to invasion by pathogens, plants block their xylem conduits with mucilage, restricting pathogen advance. Wounding soil-grown roots of maize revealed that pectinaceous mucilage could be found in the vessels after 6 h, and abundantly filled most vessels up to 3 cm proximal to the wound after 1 d. Phenolics increased in the mucilage at later times.