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THIS MONTH Bone Marrow Biopsy - An aid to diagnosis
Bone marrow evaluation may be used to assess marrow involvement in some neoplastic conditions such as lymphoid or mast cell neoplasia and multiple myeloma. It can also be used to identify suspected infectious disease such as Toxoplasma gondii infection (also, but usually only in imported animals in the UK; Leishmania donovani and Histoplasma capsulatum infections). PROCEDURE
A detailed method sheet is
available on request. Please ask for: Bone Marrow Biopsy Method
Congress has clearly outgrown the ICC. The commercial exhibitors are scattered far and wide throughout the darkest corners of the venue. At the same time those attending conference find it increasingly difficult to find a seat in the lectures or even a piece of floor to sit on in the overflow areas. At lunch break it is almost impossible to move inside or outside the ICC with bodies parked on every seat, stair and piece of carpet. The attractive canal area to the rear of the building proving particularly popular with the lunchbox picnickers enjoying the sunny springtime weather. Business on the stand was particularly brisk with a constant stream of visitors. As much as we complain about the stand location, the expense and the preparation required to attend Congress one of the great compensations is meeting clients. There are the increasingly older familiar faces and those clients we have not had the pleasure of meeting before. Then there is of course the challenge of convincing the unwary that NWL is the place to send your lab samples. For those who do not normally
attend congress it has to be said that it has to be the highlight of the
veterinary calendar. The ICC despite being stretched to capacity is an
excellent facility and Birmingham itself has been transformed out of all
recognition in the time that it has hosted Congress. The area around the
Convention Centre extending through Centenary Square and into the city
centre has to be seen to be appreciated. Broad Street is unrecognisable
from the days of the Bingly Hall when it was the centre for government
surplus shops, tatooists and ladies of the night. The ladies of the night
may or may not still be part of the scene but the area now boasts some
of the best restaurants, hotels, pubs and liveliest nightspots in Brum.
It looks like next year or certainly, the year after will see an expansion
of Congress into the adjacent National Arena. It is proposed that the commercial
exhibition will be moved in with the “Gladiators” in the Arena together
with some of the lectures. (Remember you read it here first) Maybe the
organisers should look carefully at the lecture programme at the same time.
Many delegates complained this year that lectures are becoming rather esoteric
with little of interest to the practitioner. Maybe they should take note
of another common complaint from the nurses: viz. they could not get into
their lectures for the veterinary surgeons taking up the seats!
Programme - Alan Leyland BVSc MRCVS: Atypical Dermatopathies or skins that make you pull your hair outTo book your place or for further information or a location map call Client Services on 01253 899215 or visit the web site at www.nwlabs.co.uk If you have an interesting case you would like to present to the meeting please contact Geraldine Hale MRCVS on the above number. The Clin Path Club is open to all Veterinary Surgeons, you do not have to be an NWL client. The CPC is an informal gathering for the exchange of information and expertise. So far meetings have attracted around 25 veterinary surgeons from throughout the North West. Please come along and socialise. Dairy Date – Meeting 13th
July: Duncan Midgley – Chemotherapy in Orthopaedics,
Serum, heparin and citrate
samples should be separated before despatch to the laboratory. With Gel
tubes it is important to allow sufficient time for clotting to take place
(30min) before trying to centrifuge samples. Do not spin too fast or for
too long (check the manual or your centrifuge supplier for the information).
Heparin or citrate samples can be allowed to settle if you do not have
a centrifuge and the plasma carefully drawn off.
Head Nurse Anchorage Veterinary Hospital Norwich Top Clostridial Enterotoxin New test for bacterial enterotoxin Clostridium perfringens is an organism which occurs as a commensal in the bowel but toxigenic strains have been associated with chronic relapsing diarrhoea in dogs and colitis in cats. Isolation of the organism in culture is not necessarily significant but identification of the enterotoxin is diagnostic. The testing for Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin is an essential diagnostic aid in the investigation of these conditions. A test for clostridial enterotoxin in faeces is now available. Test Name = Clostridial Enterotoxin: Code = CT: Sample = Faeces: Charge = £15.00 A Giardia ELISA tests is also available. Please contact the laboratory
for further information.
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In a forthcoming book, Sexual Orientation: towards a better understanding, she claims to have found physiological differences between the brains of gay sheep and straight sheep. She has also devised a simple blood test to determine whether lambs born to such rams are destined to grow up to be homosexuals. Post-mortem examination revealed that gay rams had lower levels of activity in the pre-optic area of the brain - which is known to have a role in sexual behaviour in all mammals. They also had higher levels of oestradiol in their brains; leading Perkins to conclude that the animals' homosexuality is physiological in nature and not just a behavioural trait. Gay rams deliberately seek out other rams, she says, and ignored ewes altogether, even when they were in a field full of ewes and had been deprived of contact with rams for several days. "I've worked with some of
the leading members of the gay community," says Perkins, "and some of them
are delighted, because they've always been convinced that homosexuality
is biological."
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