Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery
\nVolume 19, Issue 6, 1 June 2017, Pages 693-696
\nSilvestre-Ferreira, A.C., Vieira, L., Vilhena, H., Cer\u00f3n, J.J., Tvarijonaviciute, A., Montoya-Alonso, J.A., Carret\u00f3n, E., Pastor, J.<\/p>\n
Abstract<\/p>\n
Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the response of acute phase proteins (APPs) in cats seropositive for Dirofilaria immitis and to its endosymbiont bacterium Wolbachia. Methods: The APPs serum amyloid A (SAA), haptoglobin (Hp) and ceruloplasmin (Cp) were measured in 25 seropositive cats and in 16 healthy seronegative cats. Results: SAA and Cp concentrations were significantly higher in animals with D immitis seropositivity that exhibited clinical signs related to the disease, and Hp was elevated in all D immitis-seropositive animals. There was no significant correlation between APPs and D immitis or Wolbachia species antibody titres. Conclusions and relevance: An association between feline seropositivity to D immitis and APP response was demonstrated. Increases in serum SAA and Cp concentrations were related to D immitis-associated clinical signs, whereas Hp increased in all seropositive animals.<\/p>\nArticle<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Volume 19, Issue 6, 1 June 2017, Pages 693-696 Silvestre-Ferreira, A.C., Vieira, L., Vilhena, H., Cer\u00f3n, J.J., Tvarijonaviciute, A., Montoya-Alonso, J.A., Carret\u00f3n, E., Pastor, J. Abstract Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the response of acute phase proteins (APPs) in cats seropositive for Dirofilaria immitis and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicinaveterinaria.ulpgc.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}