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Which cytokines are most commonly implicated in cancer associated anorexia?

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IL-1 and IL-6

Interfere with normal balance of anorexigenic and orexigenic signals

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Which cytokines play primary roles in cancer cachexia and how?

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IL-1, IL-6, TNF-a

Induce anorexia, increase energy metabolism, accelerate loss of lean body mass through activation of NF-kB which activates the ubiquitin proteasome pathway

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Are BCS and body weight prognostic factors in dogs and cats with cancer?

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Low BW and low BCS = negative prognostic factors for survival across tumor types

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What is the most common tumor type associated with PNS-associated GI ulceration?

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MCTs through hyperhistaminemia

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Describe the mechanism by which histamine results in GI bleeding?

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Histamine binds to gastric parietal cell H2 receptors –> stimulate gastric acid secretion

Histamine direct effects on gastric mucosa –> increased vascular permeability, localized protein exudation, increased mucosal blood flow

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What concentration of histamine in the plasma is predictive of clinical signs of GI ulceration?

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Concentrations are NOT predictive

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Which less common tumor may be responsible for PNS-associated GI ulceration?

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Gastrinoma

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What percentage of dogs with hypercalcemia have a cancer diagnosis? Cats?

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Dogs - 60%
Cats - 30%

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What is Zollinger-Ellison syndrome?

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hypergastrinemia + non-beta cell neuroendocrine tumor in pancreas + GI ulceration

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What are the most common causes of hypercalcemia of malignancy in cats?

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Lymphoma, SCC, multiple myeloma

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What are the most common causes of hypercalcemia of malignancy in dogs?

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T-cell lymphoma (35-55%), AGASACA (25%)

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How does PTHrP activate PTH receptors on osteoblasts and renal tubular cells?

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70% sequence homology of the first 13 N-terminal amino acids with PTH

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Clinical signs of hypercalcemia in cats?

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anorexia and vomiting

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What is PTHrP and where is it normally released?

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Parathyroid hormone related protein
Fetal parathyroid glands, placenta, and mammary glands

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What causes PU/PD in hypercalcemic patients?

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Impaired action of ADH on tubular cells of the collecting duct

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What is the most common cause of paraneoplastic hypoglycemia in dogs?

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Insulinoma

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Which non-islet cell tumors are most commonly associated with paraneoplastic hypoglycemia?

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Primary liver tumors, smooth muscle tumors

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What is the most common cause of PNS hypoglycemia in non-islet cell tumors?

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Production of IGF-2

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How are insulinomas most commonly diagnosed?

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hypoglycemia + elevated serum insulin level

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Which tumor is most commonly associated with hyperestrogenism in dogs? Cats?

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Dogs - sertoli cell tumor
Cats - not reported

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Clinical signs of hyperestrogenism?

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Bilaterally symmetric alopecia, cutaneous hyperpigmentation, epidermal thinning, gynecomastia, galactorrhea, pendulous prepuce, penile atrophy, atrophy of the contralateral testicle, attraction to other males

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What are some laboratory abnormalities you may see in patients with hyperestrogenism?

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Myelotoxicosis
Transient increase in granulocytopoiesis and neutrophilic leukocytosis –> progressive bone marrow hypoplasia/aplasia –> aplastic anemia

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What is the most common cause of acromegaly in cats?

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Excessive GH secretion by a functional pituitary adenoma arising from somatotroph cells

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What is the most common cause of acromegaly in dogs?

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Progestin-induced GH secretion by mammary ductal epithelium

18
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What causes insulin resistance in cats with acromegaly?

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GH reduces insulin receptors and interferes with a wide range of post-receptor processes

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What is the most practical way to confirm feline hypersomatotropism?

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Measurement of serum IGF-1

20
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Nodular dermatofibrosis is associated with what neoplasms?

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bilateral renal cystadenocarcinomas or cystadenomas

21
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Almost all cases of nodular dermatofibrosis are associated with what breed of dog?

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German Shepherd Dog (autosomal dominant trait)

22
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Mechanisms by which M components interfere with coagulation

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Coating platelets, inhibiting platelet aggregation to damaged endothelial surfaces, and inhibition of platelet factor 3

23
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What are Bence Jones proteins?

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Antibody light chains excreted in the urine

24
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Females affected with nodular dermatofibrosis almost always have what other neoplasm?

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uterine leiomyomas

25
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Two most common immunoglobulin types associated with HVS

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IgM (pentamer) and IgA (dimer form)

26
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Superficial necrolytic dermatitis is associated with what diseases?

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(ie hepatocutaneous syndrome)
hepatic disease, glucagon secreting tumors in pancreas and liver

27
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Percent occurrence of anemia in dogs and cats with lymphoma?

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Dogs 30-43%
Cats 43-58%

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Dermatologic findings in superficial necrolytic dermatitis

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Erosions and ulcerations with alopecia, exudation, and crusts on feet, pressure points, flank, mucocutaneous jxn, and/or oral cavity
ALL ANIMALS HAVE: hyperkeratosis and fissuring of footpads

29
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Cancer associated with feline paraneoplastic alopecia?

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pancreatic carcinoma and biliary carcinoma

30
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Mechanism of anemia of chronic disease / anemia of inflammatory disease

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Inflammatory cytokines (TNF-a, IFN-g), IL-1, IL-6, IL-10 reduce production of erythropoietin in the face of hypoxemia and suppress the erythroid progenitor response to erythropoietin, and also iron sequestration via hepcidin production (IL-6 increases hepcidin production)

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Extreme neutrophilic leukocytosis has been associated with what cancers? How does it happen?

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Usually also with a concurrent monocytosis and eosinophilia, seen with
Dogs: pulmonary carcinoma, renal tumors, interstitial T-cell lymphoma, metastatic fibrosarcoma, adenomatous rectal polyps
Cats: Pulmonary SCC, dermal tubular adenocarcinoma

Tumor cells secrete granulocyte colony stimulating factor / granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor

32
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Most common type of phenotype of lymphoma associated with eosinophilia

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T-cell

33
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The spleen stores what percent of the body’s platelets?

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33%

34
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Distribution and characteristics of feline paraneoplastic alopecia

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  • ventrum and medial aspects of limbs
  • hair is easily epilated and skin is shiny, inelastic, and thin but not fragile
  • food pad involvement common
35
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Heparin released by MCTs causes clotting dysfunction via what mechanism?

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Acts as a cofactor for antithrombin III to inactivate clotting factors XII, XI, X, IX

36
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Up to what percent of dogs with HSA have DIC at presentation

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50%

37
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Paraneoplastic thymoma associated exfoliative dermatitis….

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exists. The end.

38
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Myasthenia gravis is associated with what cancers?

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Thymoma (most common)
Also, OSA, cholagiocarcinoma, oral sarcoma, nonepitheliotropic cutaneous lymphoma

39
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Thrombocytosis may support cancer progression via what mechanism?

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Fibrin deposition around neoplastic foci forms provisional extracellular matrix for angiogenesis and the formation of fibrin-platelet-tumor cell complexes increases adhesion to endothelium and enhances metastatic efficiency

40
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What other cancers may have granules and be mistaken for MCTs?

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granulated T-cell lymphoma, NK cell lymphoma, granular cell tumors

41
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Hypertrophic osteopathy is caused by what cancer?

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Lung tumors including metastatic lesions (most commonly OSA)

42
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Non-neoplastic conditions associated with hypertrophic osteopathy?

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infectious/inflammatory lung disease, heartworm, endocarditis, PDA, spirocerca lupi, congenital megaesophagus

43
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Da Fuq is a Mott Cell?

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Plasma cell that contain Russell Bodies, collections of immunoglobulin within the ER

44
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5 types of round cell tumors?

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Lymphoma, MCT, histiocytoma, plasmacytoma, TVT

45
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cell of origin of cutaneous histiocytoma?

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epidermal dendric/langerhans cells

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