{"id":290,"date":"2016-01-18T10:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/?p=290"},"modified":"2016-03-13T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T10:46:52","slug":"serum-acute-phase-proteins-in-dirofilaria-immitis-and-wolbachia-seropositive-cats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Serum acute phase proteins in Dirofilaria immitis and Wolbachia seropositive cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J Feline Med Surg.<\/strong> 2016 Jan 18: 1-4 pii: 1098612X15625435. [Epub ahead of print]PMID:26783021<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ana C Silvestre-Ferreira, Lisete Vieira, Hugo Vilhena,\u00a0Jose J Cer\u00f3n, Asta Tvarijonaviciute, Jos\u00e9 A Montoya-Alonso,\u00a0Elena Carret\u00f3n<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>and Josep Pastor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Abstract<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Objectives <\/span>The aim of this study was to characterise the response of acute phase proteins (APPs) in cats seropositive\u00a0for Dirofilaria immitis and to its endosymbiont bacterium Wolbachia.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Methods <\/span>The APP serum amyloid A (SAA), haptoglobin (Hp) and ceruloplasmin (Cp) were measured in\u00a025 seropositive cats and in 16 healthy seronegative cats.<span class=\"s1\">Results <\/span>SAA and Cp concentrations were significantly higher in animals with D immitis seropositivity that exhibited\u00a0clinical signs related to the disease, and Hp was elevated in all D immitis-seropositive animals. There was no\u00a0significant correlation between APPs and D immitis or Wolbachia species antibody titres.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Conclusions and relevance <\/span>An association between feline seropositivity to D immitis and APP response was\u00a0demonstrated. Increases in serum SAA and Cp concentrations were related to D immitis-associated clinical signs,\u00a0whereas Hp increased in all seropositive animals.<\/p>\n<a class=\" enigma_btn_blue enigma_btn_large  \" href=\"http:\/\/jfm.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2016\/01\/15\/1098612X15625435.abstract?rss=1\" target=\"\">Enlace a la revista<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Feline Med Surg. 2016 Jan 18: 1-4 pii: 1098612X15625435. [Epub ahead of print]PMID:26783021 Ana C Silvestre-Ferreira, Lisete Vieira, Hugo Vilhena,\u00a0Jose J Cer\u00f3n, Asta Tvarijonaviciute, Jos\u00e9 A Montoya-Alonso,\u00a0Elena Carret\u00f3n\u00a0and Josep Pastor. Abstract Objectives The aim of this study was to characterise the response of acute phase proteins (APPs) in cats seropositive\u00a0for Dirofilaria immitis and to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}