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What causes exocrine pancreas insufficiency?

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Incomplete digestion of foods leading to inadequate absorption of foods

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What does incomplete digestion of foods lead to in dogs and cats?

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Lost weight and malformed feces

Inadequate secretion of LPS, AMS, trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, carboxypeptides

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What are 3 conditions associated with exocrine pancreas insufficiency?

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Pancreatic acinar atrophy
Chronic pancreatitis
Pacreatic duct obstruction

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What does pancreatic acinar atrophy in dogs lead to?

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Immune-mediated, lymphocytic pancreatitis

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What does chronic pancreatitis in dogs and cats lead to?

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Destruction of pancreatic acinar cells

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What does pancreatic duct obstruction in dogs and cats lead to?

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Impaired secretion in the intestines that could cause maldigestion
Could lead to acute pancreatitis

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What is a major consequence of pancreatitis?

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Pancreatic acinar cell destruction

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What happens in acute pancreatitis?

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Release of cytoplasmic enzymes from damaged acinar cells –> increased AMS and LPS activity and increase serum PLI and TLI

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What happens in chronic pancreatitis?

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Repeated episodes of acute pancreatitis

Slowly progressive destruction of pancreatic acinar cells

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When is inadequate intestinal absorption usually considered malabsorption?

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When there is a concurrent malnourished state

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What species are test used for intestinal malabsorption?

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Dogs

Occasionally in cats and horses

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What is the pysiologic processes of TLI?

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Trypsinogen is secreted into intestines –> trypsin
Small amounts may be formed in pancreas
Health: small amounts escape pancreas and enter blood

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What does TLI detect?

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Trypsinogen and trypsin

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What is TLI reportedly specific for?

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Pancreas

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What is TLI measured by?

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Species-specific immunoassay

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What is the sample needed for TLI?

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Serum, EDTA plasma, or heparinized plasma

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What causes increased TLI?

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Acinar damage caused by pancreatitis
Trypsinogen or trypisin is released from damaged cells and leaks into the plasma
Decreased renal clearance
Cobalamin deficiency in cats
High protein diets in dogs
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What is the diagnostic specificity and sensitivity of TLI in dogs?

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Specificity: 90%
Sensitivity: 33-50%

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What is the sensitivity of TLI in cats?

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80-86% for moderate to severe pancreatitis

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What causes increased TLI in horses?

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Strangulating intestinal obstruction and endotoxic shock

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What causes decreased TLI?

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Decreased release from pancreatic acinar cells (chronic pancreatitis, pancreastic acinar atrophy in dogs)
Maldigestion or malabsorption (due to EPI)

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What is the physiologic process of PLI?

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Most LPS into intestine: lipolysis to TGs
Health: small amounts enter blood
Kidneys remove LPS from blood

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What assay is used to test PLI?

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Species-specific immunoassay

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What sample is used for PLI?

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Serum

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What cause increased PLI?
Increased release from damaged pancreatic acinar cells | Decreased renal clearance
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Which has a better sensitivity in cats, PLI or TLI?
PLI
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What causes decreased PLI?
Chronic pancreatitis in dos and cats causes decreased release due to fewer cells
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What is preferred in dogs, TLI or PLI? Why?
TLI | Better in separating health vs affected dogs
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What is the physiolic pricess of TAP?
After meal ingestion, trypsinogen enters intestinal lumen: cleaved by enterokinase --> trypsin and TAP
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Where can a very small amount of TAP be found?
Plasma and urine of health dogs
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What test is used for TAP?
Immunoassay
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What is the sample used for TAP?
EDTA plasma or urine in EDTA tube
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What causes increased TAP?
Acinar cell damage caused by panreatitis | Decreased renal clearance
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What had the best result in differentiating mild from severe pancreatitis?
TAP:Crt
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What is cobalamin a required cofactor in?
Folate pathways | Conversion of methylmalonyl coenzyme A to succinyl coenyme A
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What happens without the conversion of methylmalonyl coenzyme A to succinyl coenyme A?
Methylmalonic acidemia and aciduria and neurologic disease
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What sample is needed for cobalamin?
Serum(avoid heparin or hemolysis)
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What is cobalamin degraded by?
Light
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What happens to cobalamin in an acidic stomach environment?
Binds R protein
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What happens to cobalamin in an alkaline intestine?
Detaches R, bind intrinsic factor
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What happens to cobalamin one it reaches the ileum?
Cbl/IF enter enterocytes
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What happens to cobalamin in portal blood?
Binds to transcobalamin 2
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What causes increased serum cobalamin?
Supplementation | Release from damaged heptaocytes
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When will cobalamin be decreased?
When the body reserve is depleted
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What is cobalt needed for in cattle?
Rumen bacteria to produce cobalamin
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What causes a decrease in serum cobalamin?
Preabsorptive Intestinal bacteria overgrowth Defective absorption in the ileum of dogs and cats
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What causes preabsorptive decrease in cobalamin?
EPI | Intestinal bacteria overgrowth
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What is required for cobalamin to be activated?
Folate
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What sample is preferred when testing folate?
Serum
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What can cause increased folate concentration?
``` SI bacterial overgrowth Low intestinal pH High dietary intake Parenteral supplementation Cobalamin deficiency in cats ```
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What causes decreased folate concentration?
Diseases of the small intestinal mucosa | Dietary deficiency
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What is the physiologic process of fecal α1 protease inhibitor?
Protein that inhibits the activity of proteases in feces
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What is α1PI present in?
Plasma, interstitial fluid, and lymph (not feces)
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What is the sample needed for α1PI?
3 separate voided feces samples
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What is the problem with mechanical collection for fecal α1PI?
May cause bleeding and flasely increase [α1 PI]
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What causes increased α1 PI concentration?
Protein losing enteropathies | Blood loss in the alimentary tract
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What sample is needed for D-xylose absorption test?
Serum
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What are xylose absorption tests?
Administer orally and collect multiple timed samples
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What are xylose absorption tests used for?
Evaluate SI function
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What is glucose absorption test mostly used in?
Horses with chronic weight loss
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What are the advantages to the glucose absorption test?
Readily available Less expensive Assays more readily available
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What can glucose absorption tests be used in?
Monogastric animals, but not ruminants
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What is the procedure for the glucose absorption test?
Feed withheld overnight Sample collected as baseline 10/kg of glucose solution at 20% is administered Samples at 30, 70, 90, 120, and 180 minutes
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What is the criteria for the glucose intolerance test?
Glucose of 85% to 100% of the baseline at 120 minutes
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What is the lactose intolerance test used in?
Foals to detect lactase deficiency typically secondary to intestinal mucosal damage
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What is lactose composed of?
Glucose and galactose
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What are the advantages to the lactose intolerance test?
Readily available Less expensive Assays more readily available
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What is the procedure for the lactose intolerance test?
Feed withheld 4 hs prior to the procedure Sample collected as baseline lg/kg of lactose solution at 20% is administered via stomach tube Samples at 30, 60, 90 minutes
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What is the criteria for the lactose intolerance test?
[Glucose] is 150% to 250% of the baseline at 60 or 90 minutes A peak of at least 35 mg/dl above the baseline
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What diseases require a lactose intolerance test?
Maldigestion caused by lactase deficiency (viral enteritis, Clostridium difficle entercoloitis) Malabsorption of glucose due to the disease of the SI Excessive cellular utilization of the absorbed glucose

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