A 7-month-old Cardigan Welsh Corgi was presented with rapid cataract formation. Slit lamp biomicroscopy revealed mature cataract in the left eye. Ultrasonography revealed a micro phakic lens and the presence of a cord-like structure extending from the posterior lens to the optic disc. On the basis...
Author(s)
Kim MuYoung; Kim JoonYoung; Yoon HunYoung
Publisher
Fakultet Veterinarske Medicine, Univerziteta u Beogradu, Beograd, Serbia
Citation
Acta Veterinaria (Beograd), 2018, 68, 3, pp 353-360
The aim of the study was to develop an improved test to detect the colon 616 gene mutation in the alpha cyclic guanosine monophosphate (c-GMP) phosphodiesterase gene that causes progressive retinal atrophy in the Cardigan Welsh Corgi. We studied 10 control dogs of known genotype at colon 616 of the ...
Author(s)
Petersen-Jones, S. M.; Entz, D. D.
Publisher
Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK
Citation
Veterinary Ophthalmology, 2002, 5, 2, pp 103-106
To develop an allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (ASPCR)-based diagnostic test for the mutation in the cyclic guanosine monophosphate phosphodiesterase alpha subunit gene (PDE6A) that causes the rcd3 form of progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) in Cardigan Welsh Corgis, control blood samples...
Author(s)
Petersen-Jones, S. M.; Zhu, F. X.
Citation
American Journal of Veterinary Research, 2000, 61, 7, pp 844-846
Objective: To assess the extent of progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) genetic heterogeneity within and between domestic dog breeds. Methods: DNA from 231 dogs with PRA, representing 36 breeds, was screened for 17 mutations previously associated with PRA in at least one breed of dog. Screening...
Author(s)
Downs, L. M.; Hitti, R.; Pregnolato, S.; Mellersh, C. S.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK
Citation
Veterinary Ophthalmology, 2014, 17, 2, pp 126-130
A 14-week-old male Cardigan Welsh Corgi puppy was presented with failure to thrive, diarrhoea, and intermittent vomiting. A lack of palpable lymph nodes, the premature death of a male sibling, and similar clinical signs in a male cousin suggested that the puppy may have inherited a primary...
Author(s)
Somberg, R. L.; Pullen, R. P.; Casal, M. L.; Patterson, D. F.; Felsburg, P. J.; Henthorn, P. S.
Citation
Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 1995, 47, 3/4, pp 203-213
Case reports of 2 male, Cardigan Welsh Corgi puppies, one of which was diagnosed with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID), are described. Both dogs were presented to the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, in 1993. The first puppy was killed...
Author(s)
Pullen, R. P.; Somberg, R. L.; Felsburg, P. J.; Henthorn, P. S.
Citation
Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association, 1997, 33, 6, pp 494-499
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is an inherited disorder of humans, mice, horses, and dogs, in which affected individuals are incapable of generating antigen-specific immune responses. It occurs when lymphocyte precursors fail to differentiate into mature lymphocytes because of mutations...
Author(s)
Perryman, L. E.
Citation
Veterinary Pathology, 2004, 41, 2, pp 95-100
A case of fungal rhinitis-sinusitis was diagnosed in a 9-year-old Cardigan Welsh Corgi at the University of Georgia Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Histopathological examination of frontal sinus contents revealed a solid mass of fungal hyphae typical of Aspergillus spp.
Author(s)
Willis, A. M.; Martin, C. L.; Stiles, J.
Citation
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1999, 214, 11, pp 1644-1647
Citation
Australian Veterinary Journal, 1972, 48, No.4, pp 197-199
Pug makes top ten for the first time.......but fears grow that puppy farmers may cash in on demand