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1
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Entities causing hemoglobinuria

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Copper toxicity in sheep
Zinc toxicity
Acer rubrum
Leptospirosis
Babesia

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Stain for leptospirosis; location of leptospires

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Warthin-Starry; PCT

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Leptospirosis virulence factors

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Invasive motility (flagella)
LPS
Len (leptospiral endostatin-like) proteins (LigA, Plasma factor H, LipL32)
Hemolysin
Biofilm

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Where does Ehrlichia live?

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Within monocytes

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Causes of white spotted kidney in the dog

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Canine herpesvirus 1 (puppies)
Leishmania spp.
Borrelia burgdorferi
Hepatozoon canis
Canine adenovirus 1

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Causes of white spotted kidney in pigs

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PRRSv
PCV2

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Causes of white spotted kidney in cattle

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Calves- e.coli, salmonella, brucells, lepto
Malignant catarrhal fever
Theileriosis
Lumpy skin disease

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Cause of white spotted kidney in horses

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Equine infectious anemia

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Causes of white spotted kidney in sheep

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Sheep pox
Small animal lentivirus (maedi-visna)

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What breed has more severe Ehrlichia canis?

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GSD

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Morph in kidney with ehrlichiosis

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Plamacytic nephritis
Glomerular amyloidosis

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What unusual finding has been reported in canine leptospirosis?

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Exudative glomerulonephritis

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Clostridium perfrigens type D toxins

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Alpha toxin
Epsilon toxin**- toxic to endothelium and tubular epithelium

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14
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Other organ affected in pulpy kidney disease

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Brain (perivascular proteinaceous edema)

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15
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Salmon bacteria

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Renibacterium salmoninarum

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16
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Most susceptible type of salmon to Renibacterium

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Pacific

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Most resistant type of salmon to Renibacterium

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Atlantic

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Histologic lesion with Renibacterium

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Granulomas, macrophages contain coccobacilli

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Key histo feature with erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

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Embolic nephritis

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Pathology caused by Erysipelothrix (6 different systems)

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Sepsis
Cutaneous
Polyarthritis
Endocarditis
Discospondyitis
Embolic nephritis

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21
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Cause of pyelonephritis in pigs

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Actinobaculum suis

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Erysipelothrix virulence factors

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Neuraminidase
Capsular polysaccharide
Invasins
Surface proteins
SOD
Catalase

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Morphologic characteristics of Candida

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Narrow based budding yeast
Parallel wall, sepatate hyphae
Pseudohyphae

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Aspergillus virulence factors

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Beta glucan
Melanin
Ochratoxin A**- causes renal disease in pigs

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Aspergillus morphologic features

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Septate
Parallel walls
Dichotomous acute angle branching

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26
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Who gets Cloisonne kidney?

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Goats

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27
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What do Basenjis get?

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Fanconi-like syndrome (PCT disorder with paradoxical glucosuria)

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What is the key histo finding with Fanconi-like syndrome?

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Marked hypertrophy and karyomegaly of tubular epithelium

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Key histo finding with Cloisonne kidney

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Gray/brown pigmentation of BM of PCT

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Key histo finding with membranous glomerulonephritis

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Spikes and holes (subepithelial ICs)

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31
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Who gets membranous glomerulonephritis?

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Cats

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32
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Who gets proliferative glomerulonephritis

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Horses

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33
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Who gets membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis?

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Hereditary in pigs
C3 deficiency in Finnish Landrace sheep and Brittany spaniels

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Key histo findings with membranoproliferative GN?

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Double-contoured BM “tram tracks” associated with intramembranous or subendothelial ICs

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35
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PTH effects on Ca/P

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Increases Ca resorption, decreases P resorption
Increases bone resorption, decreases bone deposition
Overall, increases Ca, decreases P
Increases calcitriol (by increased 1alpha hydroxylase aka vit D production by kidney), thereby increased GI absorption of Ca and phos

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Calcitriol effects on Ca/P

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Increases Ca and Phosphorus overall
Increases bone resorption
Increases absorption of Ca and Phos in GI

37
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Most common amyloid in domestic species

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AA

38
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What mice are resistant to AA amyloid?

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A/J mice

39
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What breeds get familial AA amyloidosis?

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Shar pei (medullary)
Abyssinians (medullary, glomerular)
Siamese (liver, kidney)

40
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Key histo findings in chronic progressive nephropathy (rats)

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Chronic changes in all parts of nephron, metastatic mineralization (only in rats, not mice)

41
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Rat breeds predisposed to chronic progressive nephropathy

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Sprague-Dawley
Fischer 344

42
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Key histo findings with diabetic nephropathy

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Glomerulosclerosis
Glycogen change
Lipid emboli and fat vacuoles in mesangium

43
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Key histo findings with glomerular lipidosis

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Foam cells in mesangium (microvacuoles in cystoplasm)

44
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Key histo finding in gout

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Urate tophi (pathognomonic)

45
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Key histo findings with renal dysplasia/progressive juvenile nephropathy (6)

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Fetal glomeruli
Primitive mesenchyme
Blind ending collecting ducts
Persistent metanephric ducts
Adenomatoid epithelial proliferation
Osseous metaplasia (rare)

46
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Who gets Gilbert syndrome (congenital hyperbilirubinemia)

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Southdown sheep

47
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Aspergillus virulence factors

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Ochratoxin-A (causes renal dz in pigs)
Beta glucan
Melanin

48
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Key histo findings with hypertensive arteriosclerosis

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Glomerulosclerosis
Proliferative arteriosclerosis (onion skinning)
Hyaline arteriosclerosis

49
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Who gets autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease?

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Bull terriers
Persian cats

50
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Who gets autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease?

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West Highland and Cairn terriers
Perendale sheep

51
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Autosomal dominant PCKD is linked to

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PKD-1 and PKD-2 genes

52
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Autosomal recessive PCKD is linked to

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PKHD1 gene

53
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Lab animal prone to renal congenital cysts

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BALB/C mice

54
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Key histo feature with Chediak-Higashi Syndrome

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Large, PAS positive granules in leukocytes, platelets, hepatocytes, renal tubular epithelium, neurons, endothelial cells, melanocytes

55
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Cause of Chediak-Higashi Syndrome

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Autosomal recessive defect of LYST or Beige gene causes abnormal lysosomal trafficking

56
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What histo finding occurs with Gilbert’s syndrome?

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Progressive fibrosing interstitial nephritis

57
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Cause of Gilbert’s syndrome

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Type III photosensitization

58
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What type of GN is associated with Borrelia? Other histo findings?

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Membranoproliferative GN; tubular changes, lymphoplasmacytic interstitial nephritis

59
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Where does leptospira interrogans hide?

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PCT

60
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Leptospirosis virulence factors

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Invasive motility (flagella)
LPS
Len (Leptospiral endostatin-like) proteins (LigA, plasma factor H, LipL32)
Hemolysin
Biofilms

61
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Key histo with lepto

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Acute- Neutrophilic tubulointerstitial nephritis
Chronic- lymphoplasmacytic tubulointerstitial nephritis

62
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Key histo with Ehrlichia canis

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Plasmacytic nephritis***

63
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Cytotoxic venom

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Vipers

64
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Neurotoxic venom

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Elapids

65
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Hemotoxic venom

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Colubrids

66
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Key histo with snake envenomation

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Dilated and ruptured glomerular capillaries (mesangiolysis)
Tubular degeneration and necrosis

67
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What is the toxin that causes acquired alpha mannosidosis?

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Swainsonine

68
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What plants have endophyte that produces swainsonine

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Broomweed (Sida carpinifolia)
Astragalus
Oxytropis
Swainsona

69
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Who gets alpha mannosidosis?

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Angus, Murray, Galloway cattle
Persian cats

70
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Who gets beta mannosidosis?

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Salers cattle
Nubian goats
GSDs (MANBA gene defect)

71
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Key histo with mannosidosis

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Marked cytoplasmic vacuolation of PCTs

72
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Normal finding in macaques

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Syncytial cells in renal collecting tubules

73
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Where does chronic polypoid cystitis occur?

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Cranioventral wall of bladder

74
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Who gets nephroblastomas?

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Swine, chickens, fish
Cats and dogs less often

75
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Paraneoplastic syndrome in dogs with nephroblastoma

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polycythemia,

76
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Tumor in german shepherd dogs

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Ectopic nephroblastoma in thoracolumbar spinal cord of young dogs

77
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Key histo features of nephroblastoma

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Epithelial- blastemal cells
Mesenchymal- loose spindle cell stroma/ fibrous, mucoid, adipose, cartilage, bone
Primitive glomeruli
Abortive tubules

78
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Renal cell carcinoma most common primary renal tumor in

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Dogs, cattle, horses

79
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RCC has a low metastatic rate in one species, which is it?

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Cattle

80
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What breed gets renal cyst/adeno- carcinoma and nodular dermatofibrosis due to mutation in Birt-Hogg-Dube gene?

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GSD

81
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RCC is virally induced by

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Ranid herpesvirus-1
Avian erythroblastosis

82
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What lab breed is predisposedto RCC ?

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Longs-Evan (Eker) rats

83
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What paraneoplastic syndromes does RCC cause?

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Polycythemia; hypertrophic osteopathy if pulmonary metastasis

84
Q

Infectious causes of ICGN in dogs

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Canine adenovirus 1
Dirofilaria immitis
Borrelia burgdorferi
Leishmania infantum
Babesia gibsoni

85
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What breed gets canine familial glomerulonephritis

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Bernese Mountain dog

86
Q

Infectious causes of ICGN in horses

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Streptococcus equi
Herpesvirus
Equine infectious anemia

87
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Infectious causes of ICGN in cats

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Feline leukemia virus and hematopoeitic tumors

88
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Noninfectious causes of ICGN

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Heavy metal toxicosis (gold)