Publications by authors named "Taisuke Iwata"
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- A 5-year-old neutered Somali cat had jaundice due to extrahepatic biliary obstruction caused by a mass in the common bile duct, which was diagnosed as neuroendocrine carcinoma.
- During surgery, a perforation in the duodenum was also found, leading to the combined surgical procedures of choledochoduodenostomy and Billroth II.
- Although the cat recovered and survived for nearly 100 days without recurrence of the initial issues, it continued to experience intermittent vomiting and weight loss, indicating poor quality of life despite treatment.
Canine malignant melanomas are highly aggressive and fatal neoplasms. In the present report, 21 drugs that target specific signalling pathways were screened for their growth inhibitory activity on three canine malignant melanoma cell lines. The proteasome inhibitor bortezomib inhibited the growth of these cell lines.
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