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Guttural pouch tympany is an uncommon ailment in which excessive amounts of air become trapped in the pouch, resulting in abnormal expansion. Tympany is usually unilateral, but in some cases can affect both pouches. It is seen most often in young foals and is more common in females than in males. [17]
Monkeys have open cheek pouches within the oral cavity, but they open out in some rodents of America. Hence the name "diplostomes" is associated with them, which means "two mouths." In some rodents, such as hamsters , the cheek pouches are remarkably developed; they form two bags ranging from the mouth to the front of the shoulders.
To simulate reperfusion, one method is to tie a cuff around the pouch to restrict blood flow and cause ischemia. [32] Another method could be to compress the veins and arteries with microvascular clips which do not cause trauma. [33] In either case, after about an hour of restricting the blood, the pressure is removed to study how the pouch ...
The donor animals would need to live in closed colonies, kennels that restricted where they could go to prevent exposure to disease. She proposed taking unwanted dogs out of shelters to become ...
Instead, they form temporary skin folds (sometimes called "pseudo-pouches") in the mammary region when reproducing. [8] [9] [10] This type of pouch also occurs in echidnas which are monotremes. [11] Pouches have their own microbiota and it changes depending on reproductive stage: anoestrus, pre-oestrus, oestrus/birth, post-birth. [12]
Surra (from the Marathi sūra, meaning the sound of heavy breathing through nostrils, of imitative origin) [1] is a disease of vertebrate animals. The disease is caused by protozoan trypanosomes , specifically Trypanosoma evansi , of several species which infect the blood of the vertebrate host, causing fever , weakness, and lethargy which lead ...
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday said 21 U.S. cases have been reported so far — 20 in Florida and one in New York — all of whom had been in Cuba.