Osteosarcoma de tipo compuesto: relato de caso

  Osteosarcoma is considered the most common bone tumor in dogs, usually affecting the appendicular skeleton of animals adults or seniors with an average age of seven years. The etiology of canine appendicular osteosarcoma remains unknown. Some factors predispose the animals to the emergence of neoplasia, including: size, race and family. The tumor can be classified by macroscopic and radiological features in simple, compound, or pleomorphic. This article is a case report of osteosarcoma of the composite type with metastases in the pericardium, lung, pleura, intercostal muscles, liver and kidney in a dog breed Labrador Retriver. This presents the history of the animal, which together with the necropsy findings and histopathological examination confirmed the cause of death. We conclude that histopathological examination is an important tool for classify tumor depending on the cellular pattern and identifying the presence metastases in the different organs collected.El osteossarcoma es considerado el tumor óseo más común en perros, afecta principalmente el esqueleto apendicular de animales adultos o seniles, con edad media de siete años. La etiología del osteossarcoma apendicular canino aún permanece desconocida. Algunos factores predisponen al surgimiento de esta neoplasia, tales como: tamaño, raza y familia. La neoplasia puede ser clasificada por las características macroscópicas y radiológicas en simple, compuesta o pleomórfica. El presente artículo es un relato de caso de osteossarcoma de tipo compuesto con metástasis en pericardio, pulmón, pleura, músculos intercostales, hígado y riñones en una perra de raza Labrador Retriver. En este, se describe la historia clínica del animal, que junto con las alteraciones observadas en la necropsia y el examen histopatológico confirmaron la causa de la muerte. Se concluye que el examen histopatológico es importante para clasificar el tumor por su patrón celular e identificar la presencia de metástasis en los diferentes órganos colectados

Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation Action Plans to Support Climate-Resilient Development in the Eastern African Highlands

Smallholder farmers in the Eastern African Highlands depend on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate adaptation and sustainable development goals must be targeted in an integrated way to better match farmers’ realities and address local priorities and vulnerabilities in these areas. To support climate-resilient development in the Eastern African Highlands, 224 local stakeholders were engaged in the development of community-based climate change adaptation action plans for the Jimma Highlands in Ethiopia, Taita Hills in Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Participatory methods, high-resolution climate projections and the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP’s) guidelines were used in the design of these climate action plans with specific objectives to: 1) engage stakeholders to increase understanding of climate change impacts, adaptation options and their potential trade-offs, 2) build their capacities to design climate change adaptation projects, 3) empower stakeholders to identify existing vulnerabilities and enhance climate resilience and 4) strengthen networks to facilitate information access and sharing. Increased risk of water stress and reduction of agricultural productivity were the most frequently identified climate-change-induced problems in the three areas. The developed action plans target the underlying causes of these problems and describe sector-specific responses, activities, critical barriers and opportunities and support the National Adaptation Programmes of Action.Peer reviewe

Criocirugía en el tratamiento de carcinoma de células escamosas en perro

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of most common malignant skin tumors in dogs, locally invasive and can affect dermis and hypodermis. Older animals are usually affects and no racial predisposition. Productive, friable and papillary growth tumor can have, or may be erosive lesion formation with ulcerated an anywhere of skin, trunk are the most frequent local, leg, scrotum, lips and bed nail too frequently affect. Treatment by surgical excision with wide margins and cryosurgery can be performed and associated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The objective of this report is describe effective treatment in a mix breed male canine, aged six years and weighing 22 kg with cytologic and histopathologic diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma in the pelvic limb, which were initially held four sessions of cryosurgery and after the recovery of the patient, four sessions of intravenously chemotherapy was performed. We conclude that therapy with cryosurgery was satisfactory against this neoplasm.El carcinoma de células escamosas (CCE) es uno de los tumores cutáneos malignos más comunes en perros; son localmente invasivos y pueden comprometer la dermis e hipodermis. Generalmente afecta animales seniles y no existe predisposición por raza. El tumor puede realizar un crecimiento productivo, friable y papilar; o puede ser erosivo con formación de lesión ulcerada. Ocurre en cualquier lugar de la piel, siendo los sitios con más frecuencia: el tronco, la pierna, el escroto, los labios y el lecho ungueal. El tratamiento por la escisión quirúrgica con margen amplia y la criocirugía pueden ser realizados y asociados al tratamiento quimioterapéutico y la radioterapia. El objetivo de este relato es describir el tratamiento eficaz en un canino mestizo, macho, con seis años de edad y 22 kg de peso vivo, con diagnóstico cito e histopatológico de carcinoma de células escamosas en el miembro pélvico, donde fueron realizadas inicialmente cuatro sesiones de criocirugía y después de la recuperación del paciente, se efectuó la quimioterapia antineoplásica por vía intravenosa por cuatro sesiones. De acuerdo con los resultados obtenidos y después de 30 meses de terapia se concluye que la criocirugía fue una técnica eficaz para la cura de este tipo de neoplasia..

Partial substitution of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) flour for fishmeal in extruded diets for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): Effects on yield parameters

The objective of this research was to evaluate yield parameters (gained weight, weight percentage, survival, feed conversion factor (FCR), feed conversion efficiency (FCE), condition factor (K), specific growth rate (SGR) and hepatosomatic index (HSI)) of trouts fed with experimental diets elaborated with bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) flour instead of fishmeal with 15, 30 and 45% (BF15, BF30 and BF45, respectively) for 32 days, as well as a control diet (CD). The greatest weight gain was presented by fish fed with BF15 and BF30 (14.48 and 14.14 g, respectively) with no significant differences (p>0.05) and an approximate increase of 50% of their initial weight. FCR did not show significant differences (p>0.05) among CD, BF15 and BF30 diets with an average value of 2.05. FCE did not show significant differences (p>0.05) between diets BF15 and BF30 with an average value of 46.70%. SGR did not show significant differences (p>0.05) between BF15 and BF30 diets with an average value of 1.25. It is concluded that 30% is the maximum substitution without causing a decrease in yield and nutritional parameters in rainbow trout under the experiment conditions, although further research is suggested

A High Statistics Measurement of the Lambdac+ Lifetime

A high statistics measurement of the Lambdac+ lifetime from the Fermilab fixed-target FOCUS photoproduction experiment is presented. We describe the analysis technique with particular attention to the determination of the systematic uncertainty. The measured value of 204.6 +/- 3.4 (stat.) +/- 2.5 (syst.) fs from 8034 +/- 122 Lambdac -> pKpi decays represents a significant improvement over the present world average.Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Letter

Search for CP violation in D0 and D+ decays

A high statistics sample of photoproduced charm particles from the FOCUS (E831) experiment at Fermilab has been used to search for CP violation in the Cabibbo suppressed decay modes D+ to K-K+pi+, D0 to K-K+ and D0 to pi-pi+. We have measured the following CP asymmetry parameters: A_CP(K-K+pi+) = +0.006 +/- 0.011 +/- 0.005, A_CP(K-K+) = -0.001 +/- 0.022 +/- 0.015 and A_CP(pi-pi+) = +0.048 +/- 0.039 +/- 0.025 where the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic. These asymmetries are consistent with zero with smaller errors than previous measurements.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure

Search for CP violation in D0 and D+ decays

A high statistics sample of photoproduced charm particles from the FOCUS (E831) experiment at Fermilab has been used to search for CP violation in the Cabibbo suppressed decay modes D+ to K-K+pi+, D0 to K-K+ and D0 to pi-pi+. We have measured the following CP asymmetry parameters: A_CP(K-K+pi+) = +0.006 +/- 0.011 +/- 0.005, A_CP(K-K+) = -0.001 +/- 0.022 +/- 0.015 and A_CP(pi-pi+) = +0.048 +/- 0.039 +/- 0.025 where the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic. These asymmetries are consistent with zero with smaller errors than previous measurements.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure

Evidence for a narrow dip structure at 1.9 GeV/c2^2 in 3π+3π−3\pi^+ 3\pi^- diffractive photoproduction

A narrow dip structure has been observed at 1.9 GeV/c$^2$ in a study of diffractive photoproduction of the $~3\pi^+3\pi^-$ final state performed by the Fermilab experiment E687.Comment: The data of Figure 6 can be obtained by downloading the raw data file e687_6pi.txt. v5 (2nov2018): added Fig. 7, the 6 pion energy distribution as requested by a reade

Search for CP Violation in the decays D+ -> K_S pi+ and D+ -> K_S K+

A high statistics sample of photo-produced charm from the FOCUS(E831) experiment at Fermilab has been used to search for direct CP violation in the decays D+->K_S pi+ and D+ -> K_S K+. We have measured the following asymmetry parameters relative to D+->K-pi+pi+: A_CP(K_S pi+) = (-1.6 +/- 1.5 +/- 0.9)%, A_CP(K_S K+) = (+6.9 +/- 6.0 +/- 1.5)% and A_CP(K_S K+) = (+7.1 +/- 6.1 +/- 1.2)% relative to D+->K_S pi+. The first errors quoted are statistical and the second are systematic. We also measure the relative branching ratios: \Gamma(D+->\bar{K0}pi+)/\Gamma(D+->K-pi+pi+) = (30.60 +/- 0.46 +/- 0.32)%, \Gamma(D+->\bar{K0}K+)/\Gamma(D+->K-pi+pi+) = (6.04 +/- 0.35 +/- 0.30)% and \Gamma(D+->\bar{K0}K+)/\Gamma(D+->\bar{K0}pi+) = (19.96 +/- 1.19 +/- 0.96)%.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure