Dose range finding study for the efficacy of meloxicam administered prior to sodium urate-induced synovitis in cats.

Objective: To determine the lowest efficacious dose of oral meloxicam for relieving pain in cats with a sodium urate (SU)-induced acute inflammatory synovitis.

Study Design: Randomized, blinded, controlled, and four-way crossover study.

Animals: Eight surgically neutered cats (four males, four females) paired according to sex.

Cardiac troponin I concentrations following medetomidine-butorphanol sedation in dogs.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of medetomidine-butorphanol sedation on serum cardiac troponin I (cTnI) concentration, a marker of myocardial ischemia and injury, in healthy dogs undergoing pre-surgical radiographs for orthopedic procedures.

Study Design: Prospective clinical study.

Animals: Twenty client-owned dogs with no history of cardiac disease.

Visual documentation of ovine pituitary gland development with magnetic resonance imaging following zeranol treatment.

The objective of the current study was to determine whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could be successfully utilized to document the effect of an oestrogenic anabolic agent on pituitary gland growth. The experimental animals consisted of two 1/2 sibling Suffolk wethers (castrated rams), which received either no implant (control, n = 1) or a 24 mg zeranol implant at day 0 and day 42 (zeranol; n = 1). Animals were anaesthetized with propofol and supported with oxygen during the MRI procedure.

Effect of medetomidine and its antagonism with atipamezole on stress-related hormones, metabolites, physiologic responses, sedation, and mechanical threshold in goats.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of medetomidine and its antagonism with atipamezole in goats.

Study Design: Prospective randomized crossover study with 1 week between treatments.

Animals: Six healthy 3-year-old neutered goats (three male and three female) weighing 39.

Student assessment of the educational benefits of using a CD-ROM for instruction of basic surgical skills.

Rationale For Study: At Texas A&M University, introductory-level surgical lecture and laboratory notes were converted to a CD-ROM format that included illustrative photographs as well as instructional videos demonstrating the basic surgical skills that all students were required to master. The CD-ROM was distributed to all students in place of traditional paper notes in the second-year surgical class in the professional veterinary curriculum. The study reported here was designed to evaluate the educational benefits of the use of the CD-ROM in place of traditional paper notes by examining the attitudes and practices of students before and after exposure to the CD-ROM format.