From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2011-08-10 17:33:43 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] new abstract; new pet food incident tracking system; Immiticide outage
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>, FML List <ferret-l@LISTSERV.FERRETMAILINGLIST.ORG>
something a lot of FHL and FML members have encountered in ferrets and had removed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21826161
> Lab Anim Res. 2011 Mar;27(1):53-7. Epub 2011 Mar 25.
> Chordoma in the tail of a ferret.
> Cho ES, Kim JY, Ryu SY, Jung JY, Park BK, Son HY.
> Source
> College of Veterinary Medicine & Graduate School of New Drug Discovery and Development, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
> Abstract
> A chordoma is an uncommon tumor that originates from the remnants of the notochord and most commonly involves the cranial and caudal regions of the axial skeleton. Chordoma has been described in laboratory animals such as dogs, rats, minks, and ferrets. This report describes a case of a chordoma in the tail of a ferret. Grossly, a grayish-white, expansile, subcutaneous soft-tissue mass was observed in the tail. Histopathologically, the mass was a loosely placed, nodular, unencapsulated neoplasm within the dermis. In the mass, tumor lobules were intermingled with fibrous tissues. Fibrous tissues contained abundant extracellular basophilic material that was consistent with mucin. The tumor was composed of a close pack of adipocyte-like vacuolated cells (physaliferous cells). The cells were centrally or eccentrically located round nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm with large vacuoles. Immunohistologically, neoplastic cells were positive for vimentin and S-100 protein. Based on histopathologic findings and special staining characteristics, this case was diagnosed as chordoma.
>
> PMID: 21826161 [PubMed - in process]
info on them:
http://www.afip.org/consultation/vetpath/ferrets/chordoma.html
Pet food incident tracking:
<http://www.animalpharmnews.com/productsectors/feedadditives/US-unveils-new-pet-food-incident-tracking-system-319372?autnRef=/contentstore/animalpharmnews/codex/fdfa7a35-bcdd-11e0-ae40-ed65f51b1d22.xml>
See:
http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm266207.htm
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForFederalStateandLocalOfficials/Meetings/UCM179210.pdf
http://www.ahi.org/archives/2011/08/the-partnership-for-food-protection-fda-establish-petnet-via-feedstuffs/
http://www.ahi.org/archives/2011/08/the-partnership-for-food-protection-fda-establish-petnet-via-feedstuffs/
Pet Net is NOT a great name choice, though it sounds good, since it looks like it is already used by at least two other things.
http://news.vin.com/VINNews.aspx?articleId=19471
Immiticide (melarsomine dihydrochloride) shortage becomes an outage.
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
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