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BMC Vet Res
January 2025
College of Veterinary Medicine, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China.
Background: Aleutian mink disease, mink viral enteritis and canine distemper are known as the three most serious diseases that cause great economic loss in the mink industry. In clinical practice, aleutian mink disease virus (AMDV), mink enteritis virus (MEV) and canine distemper virus (CDV) are common mixed infections, and they have similar clinical clinical signs, such as diarrhoea. Therefore, a rapid and accurate differential diagnosis method for use on mink ranches is essential for the control of these three pathogens.
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December 2024
Department of Pathology, Ranga Raya Medical College, Kakinada, IND.
Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is a rare multisystem genetic disorder of childhood, caused by a defect in vesicular trafficking, which is an essential process for intracellular transport. This defect results in the formation of giant cytoplasmic granules in various cell types, including white blood cells, melanosomes, and Schwann cells. The presence of giant lysosomal granules in neutrophils and their precursors is a distinct and diagnostic feature of CHS, differentiating it from other childhood immunodeficiency disorders, such as Griscelli syndrome and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, which share common characteristics like albinism and increased susceptibility to fatal hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.
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December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Transplant and Cellular Therapy, MSK Kids-Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Electronic address:
Semin Pediatr Neurol
December 2024
Human Biochemical Genetics Section, Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address:
Chedíak-Higashi Syndrome (CHS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the Lysosomal Trafficking Regulator (LYST) gene, leading to defective lysosomal function in immune cells, melanocytes, and neurons. Clinically, CHS is characterized by a spectrum of symptoms, including immunodeficiency, partial oculocutaneous albinism, bleeding tendencies, neurodevelopmental deficits and progressive neurodegenerative symptoms. The severity of CHS correlates with the type of LYST mutation: the classic form, linked to nonsense or frameshift mutations, presents early in childhood with severe immune dysfunction, recurrent infections, and a high risk of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a life-threatening hyperinflammatory state.
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November 2024
Cell Biology Program, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Haematology/Oncology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:
Platelets are small, discoid, anucleate blood cells that play key roles in clotting and other functions involved in health and disease. Platelets are derived from bone marrow-resident megakaryocytes, which undergo a complex developmental process where they increase dramatically in size and produce an abundance of organelles destined for platelets. These organelles include mitochondria, lysosomes, peroxisomes, and 2 unique types of secretory organelles: α- and dense (δ-) granules.
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