Cardiopulmonary and inflammatory biomarkers in heartworm disease

E Carretón, R Morchón, JA Montoya-Alonso - Parasites & vectors, 2017 - Springer
In heartworm disease, several biomarkers of cardiopulmonary injury and inflammatory
activity have been studied during the recent years. D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of acute phase proteins, adiponectin and endothelin-1 to determine vascular damage in dogs with heartworm disease (Dirofilaria immitis), before …

Y Falcón-Cordón, A Tvarijonaviciute… - Veterinary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown the existence of an acute phase response in dogs with
heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis), probably caused by the vascular inflammation that occurs …

Changes in the salivary proteome associated with canine pyometra

L Franco-Martínez, A Horvatić… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The present study evaluated for the first time changes in the saliva proteome in bitches with
pyometra through a high-throughput quantitative proteomic analysis. The aims were to …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibiting IL-6 in medicine: a new twist to sustain inhibition of his cytokine tin the therapy of pulmonary arterial hypertension

E Gugliandolo, F Macrì, R Fusco, R Siracusa… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a chronic, progressive disease characterized by
an increase in blood pressure in the lungs' arteries. It can occur in a variety of species …

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate in heartworm naturally infected dogs “with or without” Leishmania infantum seropositivity: an observational prospective study

MA Cavalera, O Gusatoaia, A Uva… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Canine heartworm disease by Dirofilaria immitis and canine leishmaniosis by Leishmania
infantum (CanL) are both vector-borne diseases with frequently overlapping endemicity and …

Acute Phase Proteins in Dogs with Natural Infection by Trypanosoma cruzi

P Rivadeneira-Barreiro… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Acute phase proteins have been used as tools for the diagnosis, monitoring, and prognosis
of several diseases in domestic animals. However, the dynamics of these proteins in …

Effect of a phosphodiesterase-5A (PDE5A) gene polymorphism on response to sildenafil therapy in canine pulmonary hypertension

Y Ueda, LR Johnson, ES Ontiveros, LC Visser… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common clinical condition associated with morbidity and
mortality in both humans and dogs. Sildenafil, a phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitor …

Comparison of protein carbonyl (PCO), paraoxonase-1 (PON1) and C-reactive protein (CRP) as diagnostic and prognostic markers of septic inflammation in dogs

B Ruggerone, D Scavone, R Troìa, M Giunti, F Dondi… - Veterinary …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Reliable diagnostic and prognostic markers of sepsis are lacking, but essential in veterinary
medicine. We aimed to assess the accuracy of C-Reactive Protein (CRP), protein carbonyls …

Usefulness of NT-proBNP in dogs with heartworm: could this biomarker be useful to evaluate pulmonary hypertension?

N Costa-Rodríguez, SN García-Rodríguez, JI Matos… - Parasites & …, 2023 - Springer
Background In recent years, the usefulness of echocardiography and serum biomarkers in
the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in dogs with heartworm disease has been …

Association of paraoxonase-1 and NT-proBNP with clinical, clinico-pathologic and echocardiographic variables in dogs with mitral valve disease

D Rammal, CK Koutinas, LV Athanasiou… - Veterinary …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In order to identify the association of Paraoxonase-1 and N-terminal-
prohormone-B-type natriuretic peptide with selected clinico-pathologic and …