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Zamparo S, Orioles M, Brocca G, Stilwell J, Galeotti M, Verin R. Caudal peduncle mineralized lesion resembling calcinosis circumscripta in a wels catfish Silurus glanis. DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS 2023; 156:47-52. [PMID: 38078798 DOI: 10.3354/dao03759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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This report presents an intriguing case of a mineralized lesion resembling calcinosis circumscripta observed in the caudal peduncle of a wels catfish, housed in a public aquarium in northern Italy. The investigation encompasses a comprehensive analysis of various aspects, including clinical presentation, diagnostic imaging, as well as gross and microscopic pathology, and immunohistochemistry. Histopathology, in particular, highlighted a severe focally extensive granulomatous reaction, confirmed by dense histiocytic inflammatory infiltrates and the massive presence of multinucleated foreign body type giant cells localized around lakes and aggregates of mineralized material. Moreover, the usefulness and limitations of immunohistochemistry and special stains in characterizing fish tissues and cell types are highlighted. Although reported in elasmobranchs and sturgeons, to our knowledge, this is the first description of calcinosis circumscripta in teleost fish and it offers valuable insights into the understanding of similar pathologies in aquatic organisms.
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- Samuele Zamparo
- Azienda Agricola Troticoltura Erede Rossi Silvio, Sefro, Macerata, 62030, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Veterinary Pathology Unit, University of Udine, Udine, 33100, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro, 35020, Italy
- Aquatic Diagnostic Services, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, PE C1A 4P3, Canada
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- Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, 240 Wise Center Drive, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762, USA
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- Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Veterinary Pathology Unit, University of Udine, Udine, 33100, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro, 35020, Italy
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Antuofermo E, Orioles M, Murgia C, Burrai GP, Penati M, Gottardi C, Polinas M, Volpatti D, Galeotti M, Addis MF. Exploring Immunohistochemistry in Fish: Assessment of Antibody Reactivity by Western Immunoblotting. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:2934. [PMID: 37760333 PMCID: PMC10525475 DOI: 10.3390/ani13182934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2023] [Revised: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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In recent years, research on fish has seen remarkable advancements, especially in aquaculture, ornamental fish industry, and biomedical studies. Immunohistochemistry has become crucial in fish research, aiding in physiological and pathological investigations. However, the use of antibodies originally developed for mammals has raised concerns about their cross-reactivity and specificity in fish. This study systematically evaluated the reactivity of commonly used antibodies for diagnostic purposes, especially in fish pathology, including pan-cytokeratin, vimentin, S-100, glial fibrillary acidic protein, and desmin in the tissue of Sparus aurata, Dicentrarchus labrax, Oncorhynchus mykiss, and Carassius auratus. Western immunoblotting was employed to assess antibody specificity. The results revealed that the pan-cytokeratin and glial fibrillary acidic protein antibodies cross-react with all tested fish species, while S-100 demonstrated specific staining in sea bream, goldfish, and rainbow trout tissues. Conversely, vimentin and desmin antibodies displayed no reactivity. In conclusion, the anti-cytokeratin clone AE1/AE3 and the polyclonal rabbit anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein antibody, which are extensively used in mammals, were validated for fish immunohistochemical studies. Regrettably, D33 anti-desmin and V9 anti-vimentin clones are unsuitable for immunohistochemistry in the tested fish. These findings underscore the need for species-specific antibodies and proper validation for accurate immunohistochemistry analyses in fish research.
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- Elisabetta Antuofermo
- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy; (E.A.); (C.M.); (M.P.)
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- Veterinary Pathology Unit, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy; (M.O.); (D.V.); (M.G.)
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy; (E.A.); (C.M.); (M.P.)
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy; (E.A.); (C.M.); (M.P.)
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Scienze Animali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via dell’Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy; (M.P.); (C.G.); (M.F.A.)
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Scienze Animali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via dell’Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy; (M.P.); (C.G.); (M.F.A.)
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy; (E.A.); (C.M.); (M.P.)
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- Veterinary Pathology Unit, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy; (M.O.); (D.V.); (M.G.)
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- Veterinary Pathology Unit, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy; (M.O.); (D.V.); (M.G.)
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Scienze Animali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via dell’Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy; (M.P.); (C.G.); (M.F.A.)
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Rahmati-Holasoo H, Shokrpoor S, Marandi A, Torjani N, Ebrahimzadeh Mousavi H. A rare case of ocular and testicular T-cell lymphoma in a hermaphrodite koi carp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus 1758): clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical study. BMC Vet Res 2023; 19:67. [PMID: 37101161 PMCID: PMC10134520 DOI: 10.1186/s12917-023-03621-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 04/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Lymphatic neoplasia may occur in various types, such as lymphoma, lymphosarcoma, lympholeukemia, and plasmacytoid leukemia. Lymphoma, defined as a malignant tumour of lymphoid tissue, has been found in a number of fish families including Esocidae and Salmonidae. However, the occurrence of lymphoma is rare in those belonging to the Cyprinidae. A final diagnosis of ocular and testicular T-cell lymphoma in the present study was based on the clinical signs, morphology, and texture of the tumour masses in the macroscopic and microscopic examinations. In addition, histopathological and immunohistochemical findings corresponded to T-cell lymphoma characteristics. CASE PRESENTATION A 2-year-old hermaphrodite koi carp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus 1758) with a large ocular mass and severe exophthalmia in the right eye was referred to the Ornamental Fish Clinic in October 2020. Under anesthesia, enucleation was performed. 57 days after enucleation of the right eye, exophthalmia in the left eye was discovered. 221 days after surgery, the fish was discovered to be dead. At necropsy, a large soft tissue mass attached to the left testis was discovered. There were also small whitish nodules on the surface of the liver. Histopathology revealed a hypercellular ocular mass with scant connective tissue. The sections also revealed multifocal hemorrhages, round to ovoid neoplastic cells, mild-to-moderate anisokaryosis and anisocytosis, and mitotic figures. Basophilic neoplastic cells were found in blood vessels within the testicular mass, raising the possibility of systemic spread. The liver showed microscopic metastasis with morphologic similarities to the ocular and testicular tumors. The neoplastic cells infiltrating the left and right eyes as well as the testicular mass were immunohistochemically positive for CD3 but negative for CD20. The masses were diagnosed as T-cell lymphoma based on histopathological and immunohistochemical findings. CONCLUSIONS This case report provides the first evidence of clinical, histopathological, morphological, and immunohistochemical findings of an ocular and testicular T-cell lymphoma in a hermaphrodite koi carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Iran.
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- Hooman Rahmati-Holasoo
- Department of Aquatic Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- Centre of Excellence for Warm Water Fish Health and Disease, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Aquatic Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Shokrpoor S, Rahmati Holasoo H, Soroori S, Marandi A, Imantalab B. Basal cell carcinoma in an albino pindani (Chindongo socolofi) and a cobalt-zebra (Maylandia callainos): Diagnostic imaging, clinical and histopathological study. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2022; 45:1251-1258. [PMID: 35633276 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A female albino pindani (Chindongo socolofi) and female cobalt-zebra (Maylandia callainos) were referred to the Ornamental Fish Clinic with a soft tissue mass on their upper jaw. Also, during clinical examination, an unencapsulated intraoral soft tissue mass was observed in the cobalt-zebra cichlid. Digital radiography showed soft tissue masses and osteolytic lesions. Computed tomography (CT) imaging confirmed that osteolytic lesions occurred in skull bones of cobalt-zebra. Also, soft tissue mass invaded to the intraoral space. Histopathologically, a non-encapsulated, multilobulated and densely cellular neoplastic mass was identified. Extensive infiltration of neoplastic cells to the dermis and subcutaneous tissue was observed in both cases. The masses were composed of multiple coalescing nests, sheets, lobules and trabeculae of neoplastic cells within a fibrovascular stroma. The palisading basaloid neoplastic cells were markedly extended from the basal cells of the epidermis into the dermis and subcutis. The majority of the neoplastic cells had scant amounts of eosinophilic cytoplasm with indistinct margins, round to ovoid nuclei and typically a single small basophilic nucleolus. There was invasion of basaloid neoplastic cells into the bone tissue that caused osteolytic lesions. Mitotic figures were three to seven per high-power field. Epidermal basement membrane was periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) positive and neoplastic cell extension into the dermis was identified by the PAS staining. Fibrovascular stroma of the mass was also stained blue with Masson's trichrome. Based on histopathological and histochemical findings, the masses were diagnosed as infiltrative type of basal cell carcinoma (BCC).
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- Sara Shokrpoor
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Aquatic Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- Centre of Excellence for Warm Water Fish Health and Disease, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Surgery and Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Aquatic Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
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Sirri R, Verin R, Perolo A, Lunelli F, Faccenda F, Fioravanti ML, Quaglio F. Metastatic osteoblastic osteosarcoma of the jaw in a marble trout (Salmo marmoratus). JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2021; 44:483-485. [PMID: 33275774 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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- Rubina Sirri
- Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
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- Technology Transfer Centre, Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Technology Transfer Centre, Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
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Abstract
The number of fish as pets far exceeds the populations of any other companion animal. As our knowledge of aquatic animal species and aquatic animal medicine continues to expand, veterinary expertise is becoming more critical to the client, researcher, fisheries biologist, aquarist, farmer, and fish hobbyist. Similar to other vertebrates, fish are susceptible to infectious and noninfectious renal disease. This article compares vertebrate renal anatomy and physiology and highlights some renal disease examples.
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Stilwell JM, McManamon R, Sturgeon GL, Camus MS, Camus AC. Microscopic, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural characterization of spontaneous lepidosarcomas in a neon tetra, Paracheirodon innesi, and a black crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2019; 42:1077-1083. [PMID: 31044451 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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- Justin M Stilwell
- Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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- Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
- Zoo and Exotic Animal Pathology Service, Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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- Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, One Wild Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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- Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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Risk Factors for Development of Canine and Human Osteosarcoma: A Comparative Review. Vet Sci 2019; 6:vetsci6020048. [PMID: 31130627 PMCID: PMC6631450 DOI: 10.3390/vetsci6020048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Osteosarcoma is the most common primary tumor of bone. Osteosarcomas are rare in humans, but occur more commonly in dogs. A comparative approach to studying osteosarcoma has highlighted many clinical and biologic aspects of the disease that are similar between dogs and humans; however, important species-specific differences are becoming increasingly recognized. In this review, we describe risk factors for the development of osteosarcoma in dogs and humans, including height and body size, genetics, and conditions that increase turnover of bone-forming cells, underscoring the concept that stochastic mutational events associated with cellular replication are likely to be the major molecular drivers of this disease. We also discuss adaptive, cancer-protective traits that have evolved in large, long-lived mammals, and how increasing size and longevity in the absence of natural selection can account for the elevated bone cancer risk in modern domestic dogs.
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Stilwell JM, Camus AC, Zachariah TT, McManamon R. Disseminated lymphoid neoplasia and hepatoblastoma in an Atlantic stingray, Hypanus sabinus (Lesueur 1824). JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2019; 42:319-323. [PMID: 30536391 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Revised: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/11/2018] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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- Justin M Stilwell
- Department of Pathology, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Georgia
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- Department of Pathology, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Georgia
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- Department of Pathology, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Georgia
- Zoo and Exotic Animal Pathology Service, Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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