bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of coagulation in dogs with partial or complete extrahepatic biliary tract obstruction by means of thromboelastography
Authors: Mayhew Philipp D. , Savigny Michelle R. , Otto Cynthia M. , Brown Dorothy Cimino , Brooks Marjory B. , Bentley Adrienne M. , Runge Jeffrey J. , Callan Mary Beth 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Objective—To characterize in vitro coagulation status in a cohort of dogs with extrahepatic biliary tract obstruction (EHBO) and to evaluate these patients for hypercoagulability by means of thromboelastography.
Design—Prospective cohort study.
Animals—10 dogs with EHBO and 19 healthy control dogs.
Procedures—Partial or complete EHBO was confirmed via exploratory celiotomy. Venous blood samples were collected for evaluation of prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT); fibrinogen and D-dimer concentrations; protein C and antithrombin activities; and factor VII, VIII, and XI coagulant activities in plasma as well as thromboelastography in whole blood. Thromboelastography variables were measured from the thromboelastography tracing, and a coagulation index was calculated. Thromboelastography results were compared with those of healthy control dogs previously evaluated by the same laboratory.
Results—Hypercoagulability was diagnosed in all dogs with EHBO on the basis of a high coagulation index. Thromboelastography variables, including maximal amplitude, α-angle, and coagulation index, were significantly higher, and K (clot formation time) and R (reaction time) were significantly lower in these dogs than in control dogs. All dogs with EHBO had PT and APTT within respective reference ranges. Plasma D-dimer and fibrinogen concentrations were above reference ranges in 8 and 7 dogs, respectively, and protein C and antithrombin activities were below reference ranges in 3 and 1 dogs, respectively.
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—In vitro hypercoagulability was commonly detected in dogs with naturally occurring EHBO. The traditional view of EHBO as a disease that causes hypocoagulability may need to be reconsidered.
Relationship between dynamin 1 mutation status and characteristics of recurrent episodes of exercise-induced collapse in Labrador Retrievers
Authors: Furrow Eva , Minor Katie M. , Taylor Susan M. , Mickelson James R. , Patterson Edward E. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Objective—To identify characteristics of exercise-induced collapse in Labrador Retrievers and compare characteristics for dogs with various dynamin 1 gene (DNM1) mutation statuses.
Design—Retrospective cross-sectional study.
Animals—109 Labrador Retrievers with a history of recurrent exercise-induced collapse, clinically normal behavior and gait between episodes, and no reason for collapse identified via medical evaluation.
Procedures—Data were collected via surveys from owners of dogs that were tested for an autosomal recessive DNM1 mutation causing DNM1-associated exercise-induced collapse (d-EIC). Dogs were identified as having d-EIC (homozygous for the mutation) or not having d-EIC (heterozygous for or without the mutation). Survey data were reviewed by an investigator unaware of the genotypes of dogs, and collapse characteristics were compared between groups.
Results—74 dogs had d-EIC; 35 dogs did not have d-EIC. Dogs with d-EIC were young (median age, 12 months) at the time of the first collapse episode; collapse in such dogs typically originated in the hind limbs and was characterized by low muscle tone, clinically normal mentation, and rapid recovery. Dogs without d-EIC were older (median age, 23 months) than dogs with d-EIC; such dogs had various characteristics of collapse that were not consistent with a single disease.
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Characteristics of exercised-induced collapse in Labrador Retrievers with various DNM1 genotypes were identified in this study; findings may help distinguish dogs with d-EIC from those with other types of collapse conditions. Characteristics of collapse in Labrador Retrievers that were not homozygous for the DNM1 mutation differed substantially among dogs and may have been attributable to multiple causes.
Successful treatment of encrusted cystitis associated with Staphylococcus pseudintermedius infection in the urinary bladder of a dog
Authors: Biegen Vanessa R. , Slusser Peter G. , Fischetti Anthony J. , Geist Michael R. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Case Description—A 5-year-old female spayed mixed-breed dog was examined because of signs of persistent stranguria following treatment for urethral obstruction.
Clinical Findings—Radiographic, ultrasonographic, cystoscopic, and histologic findings were consistent with encrusted cystitis. Results of bacteriologic culture of urine and bladder wall biopsy samples indicated growth of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius.
Treatment and Outcome—The dog was initially treated via IV administration of fluids, placement of an indwelling urinary catheter, lavage of the bladder with sterile saline (0.9% NaCl) solution, and administration of antimicrobial drugs and bethanechol (to improve voiding of urine from the bladder). Antimicrobial drugs were administered for 3 months, and a commercially available diet for dissolution of urinary calculi was fed. Clinical signs of encrusted cystitis gradually resolved during the 3 months after the initial examination. Results of urinalysis and abdominal ultrasonographic examination performed 4 months after the initial examination indicated resolution of the disease.
Clinical Relevance—Encrusted cystitis is extremely rare in small animals and has previously only been associated with Corynebacterium spp infection of the urinary bladder. Resolution of encrusted cystitis has previously been achieved via surgical debridement of the bladder and treatment with antimicrobial drugs. The clinical findings and successful resolution of clinical signs in the dog of the present report suggested that urease-positive bacteria other than Corynebacterium spp can cause encrusted cystitis and that feeding of a diet for dissolution of urinary calculi in conjunction with antimicrobial treatment may result in resolution of urinary bladder lesions and clinical signs attributable to the disease without the need for surgical debridement of encrusted plaques.
Spinal cord compression secondary to extramedullary hematopoiesis in a dog
Authors: Williams Lindsay M. , Skeen Todd M. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Case Description—An 11-year-old spayed female Siberian Husky was evaluated because of a 2-week history of progressive paraparesis.
Clinical Findings—Results of neurologic examination were consistent with a T3-L3 myelopathy. There were no abnormalities on CBC, and hypercalcemia was noted on serum biochemical analysis. Several hypoechoic splenic nodules were evident on abdominal ultrasonography, and results of fine-needle aspiration cytology were consistent with splenic extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH). Two compressive, extradural masses in the dorsal epidural space of the thoracolumbar region of the spinal cord were seen on MRI images.
Treatment and Outcome—A dorsal laminectomy was performed to remove the extradural spinal masses. Results of histologic examination of tissue samples were consistent with EMH. Following surgery, clinical signs of paraparesis resolved, and there was no recurrence of the masses 24 months after surgery.
Clinical Relevance—Extramedullary hematopoesis should be considered as a differential diagnosis in dogs in which results of diagnostic imaging indicate a epidural mass. In human patients, spinal EMH usually occurs secondary to an underlying hematologic disease, but it can also occur spontaneously. Treatment options reported for humans include surgical decompression, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and blood transfusion. The dog of this report responded favorably to surgical decompression and was clinically normal 2 years after surgery.
Clinicopathologic variables associated with hypokalemia in lactating dairy cows with abomasal displacement or volvulus
Authors: Constable Peter , Grünberg Walter , Staufenbiel Rudolf , Stämpfli Henry R. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Objective—To identify potential mechanisms for hypokalemia in dairy cows with left-displaced abomasum (LDA), right-displaced abomasum (RDA), or abomasal volvulus (AV).
Design—Retrospective analysis of clinicopathologic data from 2 convenience samples of cows.
Sample—112 lactating dairy cows with AV (group 1); 1,332 lactating dairy cows (group 2) with LDA (n = 1,160) or RDA or AV (172).
Procedures—Data were analyzed via Spearman ρ and multivariate stepwise regression.
Results—78 of 112 (70%) group 1 cows were hypokalemic (mean serum potassium concentration, 3.5 mEq/L; reference range, 3.9 to 5.8 mEq/L). For group 1 cows, serum chloride concentration had the strongest positive association with serum potassium concentration, and serum potassium concentration was negatively associated with plasma bicarbonate and serum glucose, creatinine, and urea concentrations. Six hundred thirty-six of 1,160 (55%) of group 2 cows with LDA were hypokalemic (mean serum potassium concentration, 3.7 mEq/L). Ninety-two of 172 (53%) group 2 cows with RDA or AV were hypokalemic (mean serum potassium concentration, 3.8 mEq/L). For group 2 cows, serum chloride concentration had the strongest positive association with serum potassium concentration, and serum potassium concentration was negatively associated with indices of feed intake (serum bilirubin concentration) and hydration status.
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Results suggested hypokalemia was associated with hypochloremia, alkalemia, low feed intake with high amount of milk produced, hypovolemia, and hyperglycemia in lactating dairy cows. Treatment of hypokalemia should include surgical correction of abomasal displacement, increased dietary potassium intake via dietary dry matter intake or oral administration of KCl, and correction of hypochloremia, alkalemia, metabolic alkalosis, and dehydration.
Alien invertebrates transported accidentally to the Polish Antarctic Station in cargo and on fresh foods
Authors: Chwedorzewska Katarzyna J. , Korczak−Abshire Małgorzata , Olech Maria , Lityńska−Zając Maria , Augustyniuk−Kram Anna 
Published: February 2013

AbstractDuring three austral summer seasons cargo, expeditioner clothes and equipment of the Polish Antarctic Expedition were examined for the presence of alien propagules. De− tailed inspections were undertaken at the station buildings, searching for any invertebrates. During each austral summer fresh fruits and vegetables were also inspected. A total of 359 invertebrates and their remains were found in cargo transported to Arctowski Station, or caught in the station’s facilities. The majority of samples were classified as cultivation pests (26%), food pests (43%), wood−destroying pests (4%), domestic insects and arachnids (15%). Through supply of the research station a wide range of alien organisms can be acci− dentally transported and ultimately introduced to the Antarctic. This study has clearly dem− onstrated that almost all cargo items can be a potential vector for alien organisms. Species from a broad range of biological groups can be transported to the Antarctic and remain in a viable state.
Morphological and histochemical examination of male and female gonads in Homarus gammarus (L. 1758)
Authors: Erkan Melike , Ayun Yasemin 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
The reproductive organs of both male and female European lobsters (Homarus gammarus) are H-shaped gonads that lie dorsal to the gut on the large hepatopancreas. The ovary consists of a pair of tubular, parallel lobules with a connecting bridge. The germarium of the ovary containing oogonia is concentrated in the center of the ovarian lobe. As oogonesis proceeds, the oocytes move to the peripheral regions of the ovary. The follicle cells begin to surround the oocytes in the previtellogenic stage, and the mature oocytes are completely surrounded by the follicle cells. Carbohydrates exist in both early and late vitellogenic oocytes that give PAS positive reaction. However, their rising protein content in late vitellogenic oocytes makes them stain with Bromophenol blue. Testes show convoluted lobules with a germinal epithelium and a central collecting duct, and the paired vasa deferentia have three distinct parts. Spermatophores are nonpedunculate and tubular, which extrude as a continuous column and consist of a sperm mass covered with primary and secondary layers. The primary layer stains with Bromophenol Blue and gives a PAS positive reaction. But the secondary layer only weakly stains with Bromophenol Blue. The histochemical results may indicate that the function of the two layers is different.
Self-rated health among women and their assessment of the health care system / Samoocena zdravja med ženskami in njihov odnos do zdravstvenega sistema v sloveniji
Authors: Ule Mirjana , Kurdija Slavko 
Published: February 2013

Abstract

Background: This article researches gender inequality in health based on subjective assessments of health, the
accessibility of health care services and trust in the health care system between different social categories of women
in Slovenia.

Methods: The study is based on the Slovenian Public Opinion survey (ISSP Health Module) carried out in 2011 on
representative samples of the adult Slovenian population. In the data, we investigated the gender differences and
difference between different socio-economic categories within the female sub-sample in self-assessed health, and
some other related topics such as: trust in doctors, trust in health care system, access to health care services and
attitude to the health care policy in Slovenia.

Results: The data shows significant inequalities in self-assessed health between different social strata. Self-assessed
health is significantly lower among women at the bottom of the educational and income scale. The data also reveals
strong support for the preservation of the available public health.

Conclusion: Neoliberal economic reforms (of health care) affect vulnerable social categories the most, and women
are particularly exposed. The use of women’s unpaid work in the family belongs among the basic (neo)liberal saving
strategies. These want to take more care and health work within families from the shoulders of the state and place
it onto the shoulders of family members, which mainly means women. In these circumstances, it is understandable
that women subjectively assess their health as being worse than men’s. Moreover, conditions are being established
that de facto could lead to worse health in the female population in Slovenia.
Distribution, abundance and environmental conditions of the clonal aquatic fern Salvinia natans (L.) All. in the Vistula delta (Baltic Sea Region)
Authors: Gałka Agnieszka , Szmeja Józef 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
We examined the distribution, resources and environmental conditions of the clonal aquatic fern Salvinia natans (L.) All., expansive in the Vistula delta (N Poland). Before 2006, there were 7 stands of this species, while in the years 2006-2010 their number increased to 21. The most abundant populations were found in the rivers: Tuga (133.0±37.6 indiv./0.1 m2), Fiszewka( 79.3±6.0), Szkarpawa (74.7±5.0), Struga Orłowska (61.0±2.0), Nogat (52.3±2.5), Elbląg (40.3±31.8), Wiślano-Zalewowy Canal (61.3±3.2) and in the SW part of Lake Druzno (72.3±2.5). S. natans did not colonise the weakly saline Vistula Lagoon and Elbląg Bay, which belong to the Baltic Sea. The plant under study occurred in shallow (2.2±1.5 m), narrow (17.9±13.6 m), slow-flowing (0.11±0.12 m s-1) and fertile (4.7±4.2 mg TN dm-3, 0.7±0.4 mg TP dm-3) watercourses. The water in them had neutral or alkaline pH (7.2-9.2) and was weakly saline (53.8±21.3 mg Cl dm-3). A dense mat of S. natans significantly affected the environmental conditions in the watercourses: water oxygenation, PAR intensity and concentration of biogenic substances, especially phosphorus, decreased.
Enzyme Activity in Forest Gleysols
Authors: Błońska Ewa , Lasota Jarosław , Januszek Kazimierz 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the enzymatic activity (dehydrogenase and urease) in trophically diverse Gleysols. Efforts to establish the relationship between enzymatic activity and physico-chemical properties of various subtypes of Gleysols were attempted. Dehydrogenase activity was best correlated with carbon content and acidity among the studied properties of soils. Urease activity was correlated with the reaction pf soil. Enzyme activity differentiates subtypes of Gleysols, which are characterized by a different type of soil humus. The dehydrogenase activity was higher in gleysols with peat or muck of swamp habitats. The opposite trend was found in the urease activity. The urease activity was the highest in the gleysols without organic matter. The studies showed that enzymatic activity is closely related to the type of accumulated organic matter and at the same time with species variety of plant communities..
Komparatystyka i (inna) Historia Literatury / Comparative Literature Studies and (an Alternative ) History of Literature
Authors: Hejmej Andrzej 
Published: February 2013

Summary
This article examines the relationship between comparative studies and history of literature. While paying special attention to the present-day condition of these two disciplines, the author surveys various approaches, formulated since the early 19th century, which sought to break with the traditional, national model of the history of literature and the ethnocentric model of traditional comparative studies, driven by an impatience with both nationalism and crypto-nationalism. In this context he focuses on the most recent projects of literary history like ‘comparative history of literature’, ‘international history of literature’, ‘transcultural history of literature’, or ‘world literature’ - all of which are oriented towards the international dimension of literary history. The article explores the possible reasons for the late 20th and early 21st- century revival of Goethe’s idea of Weltliteratur (in the critical thought of Pascal Casanova, David Damrosch, and Franco Moretti) and the recent vogue for ‘alternative’ histories of literature produced under the auspices of comparative cultural studies. At the same time it voices some skepticism about the radical reinvention of comparative studies (along the lines of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline).
Historia Literatury, Komparatystyka, Przekład / History of Literature, Comparative Studies, Translation
Authors: Bilczewski Tomasz 
Published: February 2013

Summary
This article analyzes the problem of constructing historical and literary narratives in the context of latest developments in comparative cultural studies, which have been subjected to the influence of the so-called ‘translation turn’. This perspective requires that one acknowledges the return and reinterpretation of Goethe’s notion of Weltliteratur, and the appearance of analyses of the philosophical, ethical, and political dimensions of the category of “comparison” (undertaken especially by anthropologists and scholars of postcolonialism). The revival of interest in the history of literature among comparative literature scholars (e.g., Frederic Jameson, David Damrosch, Walter F. Veit, Frances Ferguson, Jonathan Arac, Hans Ulrich Gumbricht, or Rebecca Walkowitz) is discussed in relation to the publication of Pascale Casanova’s La République mondiale des lettres (Paris, Seuil, 1999), which turned out to be one of the most important and most interesting works devoted to the problem of constructing transnational historical and literary narratives to appear in the last two decades.
Miłosz Wobec Conrada w Traktacie Moralnym / Miłosz and Conrad in the Treatise on Morality
Authors: Dudek Jolanta 
Published: February 2013

Summary
It would appear that Czesław Miłosz’s Treatise on Morality - one of whose aims was to “stave off despair” - was largely inspired by the writings of Joseph Conrad. That Miłosz had no wish to draw his readers’ attention to this is perfectly understandable, given Conrad’s particularly low standing in the eyes of communist State censors. This long poem, which extols human freedom and pours scorn on socialist realism (together with its ideological premises), is one of Miłosz’s best known works in his native Poland, where it was published in 1948. The Treatise on Morality may well have been inspired by three of Conrad’s essays that were banned in communist Poland: ‘Autocracy and War’ (1905), ‘A Note on the Polish Problem’ (1916) and ‘The Crime of Partition’ (1919). After the Second World War, translations of these three essays were not available to the general Polish reader until … 1996! Conrad’s writings helped Miłosz to diagnose Poland’s political predicament from a historical perspective and to look for a way out of it without losing all hope. An analysis of the Treatise on Morality shows that only by reconstructing the Conradian atmosphere and context - alluded to in the text - can we fully grasp all the levels of the poet’s irony, which culminates in a final “punchline”. Apart from allusions to The Heart of Darkness and the brutal colonization of the Congo, the fate of post-war Poland is also seen through the optic of those of Conrad’s novels that deal with the subject of depraved revolutionaries: Nostromo (1904), TheSecret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911). Conrad’s ideas for ways to fight against bad fortune and despair are suggested not only by his stories Youth (1902) and Typhoon (1903) - and by his novels The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Lord Jim - but also and above all by his volume of memoirs entitled A Personal Record (1912), in which he relates his yearning for freedom as the young, tragic victim of a foreign empire. In an article entitled ‘Joseph Conrad in Polish Eyes’ and published in 1957 - on the hundredth anniversary of Conrad’s birth - Miłosz writes that, through his writings, Conrad fulfilled the hopes of his father (who gave him the name “Konrad”) and that although “the son did not want to assume a burden that had crushed his father, he had nevertheless become the defender of freedom against the blights of autocracy”
Ekspresjonizm Jako „Dobro Wspólne”. O Pierwiastkach Ekspresjonistycznych We Wczesnej Twórczości Poetyckiej Czesława Miłosza / Expressionism as a ‘Common Good’: Expressionist Motifs in Czesław Miłosz ’s Early Poetry
Authors: Szewczyk-Haake Katarzyna 
Published: February 2013

Summary
This is an attempt at tracing the expressionist tropes in Czesław Miłosz’s pre-war poetry, identified by reference to a consensual catalogue of distinctive (both thematic and formal) characteristics of literary expressionism, such as the disintegration of identity or fear resulting from the loss of all metaphysical assurance and comfort. If Miłosz’s and the expressionists’ handling of modern man’s spiritual condition are remarkably similar, it should hardly be a surprise for expressionism appears to have functioned as a ‘common good’ of many poetic voices of the nineteen thirties. We can find some of its elements not just in Miłosz’s verse, but also in the work of other poets associated with the group Żagary. What is striking is that the at least some of the expressionist traits of Miłosz’s early poetry seem to be have stood the test of time.