Assessment of hydromorphone and dexmedetomidine for emesis induction in cats.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of hydromorphone and dexmedetomidine at inducing emesis in cats.

Design: Prospective, blinded, randomized crossover study.

Setting: Veterinary university teaching hospital.

Effects of various factors on Doppler ultrasonographic measurements of radial and coccygeal arterial blood pressure in privately owned, conscious cats.

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of age, body condition score (BCS), and muscle condition score (MCS) on radial and coccygeal systolic arterial blood pressure (SAP) in cats. DESIGN Prospective randomized trial. ANIMALS 66 privately owned cats enrolled between May and December 2010.

Diagnostic utility and sensitivities of GATA3 antibodies in triple-negative breast cancer.

GATA3 is implicated in mammary epithelial development and breast cancer progression and is an evolving immunohistochemical marker in breast cancer. Often associated with estrogen receptor (ER) signaling, GATA3 expression has been reported in ER-negative breast cancers, but systematic evaluation of GATA3 expression in a large set of triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) is lacking. Given low sensitivities of mammaglobin (MGB) and GCDFP15 in metastatic TNBC, additional markers for site of origin identification would be useful in this context.

Perinatal outcomes among Asian-white interracial couples.

Objective: To investigate whether perinatal outcomes among interracial Asian-white couples are different than among Asian-Asian and white-white couples.

Study Design: This was a retrospective study of Asian, white, and Asian-white couples delivered at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital from 2000-2005. Asian-white couples were subdivided into white-mother/Asian-father or Asian-mother/white-father.

Significant differences among skeletal muscles in the incorporation of bone marrow-derived cells.

While numerous reports indicate that adult bone marrow-derived cells can contribute to nonhematopoietic tissues in vivo in adult mice, the generally low frequency of these events has made it difficult to study the molecular and cellular pathways involved. Here, we show a 1000-fold range in the frequency with which diverse skeletal muscles incorporate adult bone marrow-derived cells in adult mice. Most striking was the finding of one specific muscle, the panniculus carnosus, in which up to 5% of myofibers incorporated bone marrow-derived cells over a 16- month period in the absence of experimentally induced selective pressure.