Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: editors Title: VOLUME 53, CONTENTS, AUTHOR INDEX, AUTHOR INSTITUTION INDEX, LIST OF REVIEWERS Journal: Veterinární medicína Pages: I-XIV Volume: 53 Issue: 12 Year: 2008 DOI: 10.17221/1974-VETMED File-URL: http://vetmed.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1974-VETMED.html File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlvet:v:53:y:2008:i:12:id:1974-VETMED Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Ciganek Author-Workplace-Name: Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: J. Neca Author-Workplace-Name: Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic Title: Chemical characterization of volatile organic compounds on animal farms Abstract: More than one hundred volatile organic substances were identified by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in the indoor and outdoor air, stable and farm road dust and farm soil samples from two pig and cattle farms in the South Moravian Region. Volatile fatty acids (acetic, propanoic, butanoic and pentanoic acids) and their esters dominated along with aldehydes (butanal, pentanal and hexanal) and 4-methylphenol in the indoor and outdoor air samples. Road dust and soil samples contained mainly volatile aromatic compounds (toluene, benzene, ethylbenzene, styrene and xylenes), aliphatic hydrocarbons (largely n-alkanes), dichloromethane and carbon disulphide. The health risks associated with particular volatile compounds detected in the indoor and outdoor samples from the farms need to be assessed. Keywords: VOCs, SPME, GC/MS, pigs, cattle Journal: Veterinární medicína Pages: 641-651 Volume: 53 Issue: 12 Year: 2008 DOI: 10.17221/1969-VETMED File-URL: http://vetmed.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1969-VETMED.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/vet-200812-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlvet:v:53:y:2008:i:12:id:1969-VETMED Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Gal Author-Workplace-Name: Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: R. Kilik Author-Workplace-Name: 1st Clinic of Surgery, Pavol Jozef Safarik University and L. Pasteur Faculty Hospital, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: M. Mokry Author-Workplace-Name: Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: B. Vidinsky Author-Workplace-Name: Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: T. Vasilenko Author-Workplace-Name: Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: S. Mozes Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Animal Physiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: N. Bobrov Author-Workplace-Name: Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: Z. Tomori Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: J. Bober Author-Workplace-Name: 1st Clinic of Surgery, Pavol Jozef Safarik University and L. Pasteur Faculty Hospital, Kosice, Slovak Republic Author-Name: L. Lenhardt Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Kosice, Slovak Republic Title: Simple method of open skin wound healing model in corticosteroid-treated and diabetic rats: standardization of semi-quantitative and quantitative histological assessments Abstract: The use of a simple and reproducible model is inevitable for objective statement of the effects of external factors on wound healing. Hence, present study was conducted to establish an excisional model of skin wound healing in corticosteroid treated, and streptozotocine induced diabetic rats as well as to standardized the semi-quantitative and quantitative evaluation of selected parameters. Round full thickness skin wounds were performed on the back of male Sprague-Dawley rats. Animals were sacrificed two, six, and fourteen days after surgery. Sections were stained with hematoxylin-eosin and van Gieson. Both semi-quantitative (wound reepithelization; presence of: inflammatory cells, fibroblasts, new wessels, and collagen) and quantitative methods (polymorphonuclear leucocytes/tissue macrophages ratio, percentage of re-epithelization, area of the granulation tissue) were used to evaluate the histological changes during wound healing. As compared to the control group the wound healing process of both experimental groups was decelerated. Interestingly, wound reepithelization and angiogenesis were significantly inhibited only in the steroid rats while epithelization was accelerated in diabetic rats. In conclusion, when compared to primary sutured wound healing it can be concluded that the excisional model is more appropriate for histological assessment of the effect of various factors on wound healing. In addition, administration of corticosteroids represents simple and inexpensive model of a complex skin wound healing impairment. Keywords: repair, regeneration, scar tissue, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus Journal: Veterinární medicína Pages: 652-659 Volume: 53 Issue: 12 Year: 2008 DOI: 10.17221/1973-VETMED File-URL: http://vetmed.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1973-VETMED.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/vet-200812-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlvet:v:53:y:2008:i:12:id:1973-VETMED Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: E. Ludvikova Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: I.D. Wijnberg Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Author-Name: P. Fictum Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: Z. Lukas Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: J.H. van der Kolk Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Author-Name: J. Hanak Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: P. Jahn Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Title: Histopathological findings in horses with and without clinical signs of rhabdomyolysis with special reference to polysaccharide storage myopathy Abstract: Objective of the study was to assess histopathological changes in horses with a clinical history of exertional rhabdomyolysis (ER) with special reference to polysaccharide storage myopathy and to compare histopathological findings in horses with and without a clinical history of ER. In total 39 muscle samples were collected, from horses with a history of repeated episodes of exertional rhabdomyolysis (test group, 10 horses) and from horses without clinical signs of muscular disorders in their history (control group, 29 horses). Frozen muscle samples were stained with haematoxylin and eosin and periodic acid-Schiff with and without amylase digestion. Histopathologic changes (amylase resistant polysaccharide, subsarcolemmal glycogen, intracytoplasmic masses, subsarcolemmal vacuoles, fibre size variation and internal nuclei) were evaluated. There was a statistically significant difference between groups in the presence of subsarcolemmal amylase sensitive glycogen deposits (P ≤ 0.0001), the risk ratio was 5.22. Statistically significant differences between groups were not found regarding the presence of intracytoplasmic masses, subsarcolemmal vacuoles, amylase resistant polysaccharide, fibre size variation and internal nuclei. Presence of amylase resistant polysaccharide within muscle fibres of apparently healthy horses could be a manifestation of different phenotype expression of PSSM but also the insufficient specificity of this diagnostic criterion. Keywords: muscle, glycogen, horse Journal: Veterinární medicína Pages: 660-667 Volume: 53 Issue: 12 Year: 2008 DOI: 10.17221/1970-VETMED File-URL: http://vetmed.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1970-VETMED.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/vet-200812-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlvet:v:53:y:2008:i:12:id:1970-VETMED Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: B. Skotarczak Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Genetics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland Author-Name: M. Adamska Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Genetics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland Author-Name: M. Sawczuk Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Genetics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland Author-Name: A. Maciejewska Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Genetics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland Author-Name: B. Wodecka Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Genetics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland Author-Name: A. Rymaszewska Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Genetics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland Title: Coexistence of tick-borne pathogens in game animals and ticks in western Poland Abstract: Molecular studies enabling the recognition of the role of game and ticks in the circulation of pathogens transmitted by ticks and detection of coinfections in order to estimate a risk which a contact with tissues of roe deer, red deer and wild boar from north-western Poland brings were the aim of this research. DNA isolated from the blood and spleen of game and from Ixodes ricinus were the study materials. The results shows that Capreolus capreolus and Cervus elaphus play an important role in the life cycle of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, two Bartonella species, Theileria and Babesia spp. Whereas in the isolates obtained from 50 representatives of Sus scrofa, the DNA of only one pathogen, A. phagocytophilum occurred. 63.5% of 74 PCR+ isolates from Capreolus capreolus showed a double coinfection and three isolates - triple. In the tissues of Cervus elaphus, the coinfections were triple in 38% of individuals, double in 40%, single in 84%. Keywords: game animals, Borrelia, Anaplasma, Bartonella, Babesia, Theileria, Ixodes ricinus, PCR Journal: Veterinární medicína Pages: 668-675 Volume: 53 Issue: 12 Year: 2008 DOI: 10.17221/1975-VETMED File-URL: http://vetmed.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1975-VETMED.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/vet-200812-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlvet:v:53:y:2008:i:12:id:1975-VETMED Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Floeck Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria Author-Name: G.E. Weissengruber Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria Author-Name: W. Froehlich Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria Author-Name: G. Forstenpointner Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria Author-Name: S. Shibly Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria Author-Name: J. Hassan Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria Author-Name: S. Franz Author-Workplace-Name: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria Author-Name: E. Polsterer Author-Workplace-Name: Scientific Draughtswoman Vienna, Enzersdorf an der Fischa, Austria Title: First report of pentalogy of Cantrell in a calf: a case report Abstract: This report describes the diagnostic evaluation in a one-week-old, female Simmental twin-calf with the anamnesis of umbilical hernia. Weakness, anaemia, tachycardia and a systolic left sided murmur were significant clinical findings. Based on echocardiography, the animal was diagnosed with pentalogy of Fallot, whereas necropsy revealed the presence of Cantrell's pentalogy with Taussig-Bing syndrome and situs inversus of the liver. Pentalogy of Cantrell is a rare condition described in humans but not yet reported in calves. Keywords: congenital cardiac defect, pentalogy of Cantrell, Taussig-Bing syndrome, situs inversus of the liver, cattle Journal: Veterinární medicína Pages: 676-679 Volume: 53 Issue: 12 Year: 2008 DOI: 10.17221/1972-VETMED File-URL: http://vetmed.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1972-VETMED.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/vet-200812-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlvet:v:53:y:2008:i:12:id:1972-VETMED Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Jahn Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: E. Ludvikova Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: D. Chmelar Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Health Studies, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Author-Name: L. Kalova Author-Workplace-Name: Private Practitioner, Napajedla, Czech Republic Title: Botulism in horses: a case report Abstract: Two cases of botulism in horses are described in the article. In the first case two horses died, one survived and recovered after four weeks. Botulotoxin type B was detected using a mouse bioassay in the gastrointestinal content of both dead horses; Clostridium botulinum bacteria were cultivated from one of them. In the second case two horses were affected. One of them was euthanized because of persistent recumbency, the second one recovered after six weeks. Detection of botulotoxin in the serum of the dead horse using the mouse bioassay was not successful. Keywords: intoxication, Clostridium botulinum, botulotoxin Journal: Veterinární medicína Pages: 680-684 Volume: 53 Issue: 12 Year: 2008 DOI: 10.17221/1971-VETMED File-URL: http://vetmed.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1971-VETMED.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/vet-200812-0007.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlvet:v:53:y:2008:i:12:id:1971-VETMED Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Kostov Author-Workplace-Name: Military Hospital of Nis, Serbia Author-Name: Z. Mijovic Author-Workplace-Name: Medical Faculty of Nis, Serbia Author-Name: M. Visnjic Author-Workplace-Name: Clinic of Surgery, Clinical Center of Nis, Serbia Author-Name: D. Mihailovic Author-Workplace-Name: Medical Faculty of Nis, Serbia Author-Name: M. Stojanovic Author-Workplace-Name: Clinic of Surgery, Clinical Center of Nis, Serbia Author-Name: M. Zdravkovic Author-Workplace-Name: Medical Faculty of Nis, Serbia Title: Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour in a dog presenting as a pseudo aneurysm of the left jugular vein: a case report Abstract: The authors report an autopsy case of a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour in a 9-year-old female Akito-ino dog, presenting as a pseudo aneurysm of the left jugular vein. Signs and symptoms included swelling of the neck and legs, dyspnea, malaise and weight loss. Post-mortem examination revealed a tumour mass (8 × 6, 5 × 6 cm), localized to the left paravertebrally, and on the level of C7 to T2 vertebral bodies; additional masses were observed in both lungs, heart and left kidney. On the basis of necropsy, histological findings and immunophenotype, the tumour was classsified as a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour. Immunohistochemistry especially positivity for S-100 protein can be helpful in distinguishing this type of neoplasm from other malignancies with similar morphologies. Keywords: malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour, dog, tumour Journal: Veterinární medicína Pages: 685-689 Volume: 53 Issue: 12 Year: 2008 DOI: 10.17221/1976-VETMED File-URL: http://vetmed.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1976-VETMED.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/vet-200812-0008.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlvet:v:53:y:2008:i:12:id:1976-VETMED