A 2-year-old, spayed male Bengal cat was referred to our clinic due to a mass lesion on the upper lip, as well as lower lip swelling and redness. Furthermore, well-circumscribed, raised, pink lesions were found in the oral cavity. Complete blood counts (CBC) and serum biochemistry profiles revealed no remarkable findings. Bacterial and fungal cultures of the lesion in the oral cavity were negative. Fine needle aspiration of the lesions revealed numerous eosinophils. Based on both clinical examination and cytological evaluation, the cat was diagnosed with feline eosinophilic granuloma. As an initial treatment, oral prednisolone (PDS) with cyclosporine was administered. However, the cyclosporine caused the cat to vomit. The lesion was markedly improved after 2 weeks of PDS-only therapy; this was subsequently tapered for 2 months and discontinued. However, one month later, the lesion had relapsed. The cat was then treated for one month using tacrolimus with PDS, and the clinical signs of eosinophilic granuloma gradually improved. The tacrolimus was gradually tapered for 1 month, and the PDS was gradually tapered for 4 months. There is no standard protocol for the investigation and treatment of feline eosinophilic granuloma. The cat in this report was administered immunosuppressive therapies to treat eosinophilic granuloma. This case report provides evidence the combination of PDS and tacrolimus is effective for reducing relapse in feline eosinophilic granuloma.

Cell-free fetal RNA has been highlighted as useful tools for the fetal sex determination or other genetic inherent disorder. However, there is no knowledge about the sex determination using cell free fetal RNA in bovine field. Thus, the present study aimed to evaluate the presence of transcripts of DDX3Y, USP9Y and ZRSR2Y genes in maternal plasma of pregnant cows to determine the sex of the fetus using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay, and verify its accuracy, sensitivity and specificity compared with the molecular testing and the calf sex at birth. Transcripts of USP9Y and DDX3Y genes were expressed in the all plasma of males and females both the control group and the experimental group. However, ZRSR2Y gene was matched up with the molecular testing and the true sex in control group and has an overall accuracy of 82.6%, a sensitivity of 75%, and a specificity of 100% in experimental group. Therefore, these results indicated that real time PCR technique, as a noninvasive and cost-efficient method, is possible to determination fetal sex in the bovine species using circulating cell free RNA in maternal plasma and especially ZRSR2Y gene could be a good candidate for the RNA based sex determination work.

The aim of this study was to estimate of ovulation time and parturition day at the same time as breeding in small dog by vaginal cytology and to confirm the accuracy by comparing the expected parturition day and the real one. Characteristic features of vaginal cytology during the estrous cycle were the high proportion of large intermediate cell, superficial cell, anuclear cell and erythrocyte in proestrus, superficial cell and anuclear cell in estrus, parabasal cell, small intermediate cell, large intermediate cell and leukocyte in diestrus, parabasal cell and small intermediate in anestrus, respectively. When day 0 was the parturition day, the period of pregnancy is 67.45(64～75) days when the cornification index (CI) is over 90%. Also, on the basis of ovulation day, 63.65(59～66) days was confirmed, and 57.0(52～60) days was confirmed based on the first day of diestrus. There are the gap of 4 days between the day being over 90% in CI and ovulation day. On the basis of this, when expecting parturition day based on the day being over 90% in CI by vaginal cytology, 18.1% was produced in the same of the expected parturition day and the real one, 30.3% and 33.3% were produced in the gap of one day and two days, respectively so, the accuracy within two days was 81.7%. In addition, based on the first day of diestrus, it also was identified to 81.7% as the difference between the expected parturition day and the real one within 2 days. It demonstrated there are any difference between any expected parturition day by vaginal cytology. Thus on the basis of the day of being over 90% CI, it is fully thought to using clinically due to the possibility of prediction the parturition day at the same time as the determination of the proper time of the optimal mating time.

This study was to determine some appropriate models which account for attitudes toward practice of consuming dog (ACD) as a food and as a companion animal. Two models, one for males and the other females, were found from 670 community-dwelling respondents of the Gwangju Metropolitan area who aged 17～66 years. Age, keeping dog or willing to keep dog, and frequency of consuming dog as a food (FD) were exogenous variables in the models while attitudes toward companion animal were a mediating variable. The two models were slightly different, but the most influential variable accounting for the ACD was the FD. The findings of this study on the ACD were discussed in two dimensions of affect and utility which were motivational attitudes to animal. People who are against consuming dog meat as food would think of all dogs as only affectionate objects, and their points of view were discussed in the context of both keeping dog and restricting dog meat consumption. On the other hand, people who are for consuming dog meat would think of dogs as either affectionate or utilized objects, and their points of view were discussed in the context of halving dogs into companion dog and edible dog.

본 연구는 후산정체 젖소에 있어서 Lipopolysaccharide(LPS)의 처리가 번식 성적에 미치는 영향을 구명하기 위하여 분만 후 12시간이 경과하여도 후산이 배출되지 않은 홀스타인 개체 33두 및 대조구 12두에 대하여 분만후 20일째에 LPS 100 g을 자궁 내에 주입한 다음 7일후에 발정이 발현되었을 때 인공수정을 실시하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 후산정체 젖소에 있어서 첫 수정에 의한 수태율은 대조구의 경우 공시한 12두가 모두 첫 수정에 의해 수태가 되지 않았고 처리구는 33두중 11두가 수태되어 33.3%의 수태율을 나타내었다. 후산정체 젖소에 있어서 대조구 및 처리구의 분만후 수태까지의 일수는 각각 149.6±34.3일 및 53.0±12.5일로 처리구가 대조구에 비하여 유의적(p<0.01)으로 단축되는 경향을 나타내었다. 후산정체 젖소에 있어서 대조구 및 처리구의 수태당 종부 횟수는 각각 3.6±0.8회 및 2.1±0.3회로 처리구가 대조구에 비하여 유의적(p<0.05)으로 낮은 경향을 나타내었다.