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Veterinary Medicine

Chulalongkorn University

2004

Canine oral melanoma

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Melan A, Protein Expression As A Diagnostic And Prognostic Factor In Canine Oral Melanomas, Anudep Rungsipipat, Chanin Kulprawit Dec 2004

Melan A, Protein Expression As A Diagnostic And Prognostic Factor In Canine Oral Melanomas, Anudep Rungsipipat, Chanin Kulprawit

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between Melan A protein expression, histopathological appearance, clinical data and proliferative marker indices for the diagnosis and prognosis of canine oral melanomas. A retrospective study was performed on biopsy specimens of 65 dogs submitted during the years of 2000 to 2003 to the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University. Our results revealed that Melan A protein expression was detected in 50.77% (33/65) malignant melanomas. The results did not show any significant differences between Melan A protein expression and histopathological classification, clinical data, average AgNORs and PCNA indices. …


The Relationship Between Agnors And Pcna Indices, Histopathological Appearance And Clinical Factors, As Prognostic Factor For Canine Oral Melanoma, Anudep Rungsipipat, Siriwalee Ngow, Nipaporn Pattanathaiyanom, Nipaporn Pattanathaiyanom, Porntipa Lertrattanachaikul, Khanchit Pongpech, Chanin Kulprawit Dec 2004

The Relationship Between Agnors And Pcna Indices, Histopathological Appearance And Clinical Factors, As Prognostic Factor For Canine Oral Melanoma, Anudep Rungsipipat, Siriwalee Ngow, Nipaporn Pattanathaiyanom, Nipaporn Pattanathaiyanom, Porntipa Lertrattanachaikul, Khanchit Pongpech, Chanin Kulprawit

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the relationship between histopathological appearance and clinical data, Argyrophilic Nucleolar Organizer Regions (AgNORs) and Proliferative Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) indices in canine oral melanoma. A retrospective study was performed on biopsy specimens from 67 dogs submitted over the year 2000 to 2003 to the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University. Our results showed that the average AgNORs index did not show any significant differences with histopathological characteristics and Masson-Fontana Silver (MFS) stain but the AgNORs index showed significant differences when compared with histological grading and tumor diameter size (p < 0.05). The average PCNA index did not show significant differences with histopathological characteristics, grading, and MFS stain but did not show significant differences with the sex of affected dogs and tumor diameter size (p < 0.05). AgNORs and PCNA indices might be useful as a prognostic factor for oral melanoma in dogs