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What portion of the primitive gonad becomes the ovary?

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The outer cortical layer

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What promotes development of the male repro tract?

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SRY gene–> SOX9 expression–> Hormones produced by Sertoli cells and Interstitial cells

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What promotes development of the female repro tract?

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Activation of WNT4, DAX1, and SF1 genes; SOX9 inhibition (as opposed to products from the gonad)

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What embryonic structure forms the female tubular organs?

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Paramesonephric ducts

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What embryonic structure contributes to the male and female sex cords and rete?

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Mesonephric tubules

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What is a key diagnostic feature of chimerism (freemartinism)? What gross lesion is always present?

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Poorly formed vesicular glands attached to the uterus; Lack of communication with the vagina

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How does chimerism occur?

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Male fetus sterilizes the female by testis-determining factors, inhibiting ovarian development

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Cystic rete arise from ____________

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Mesonephric tubule segments

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Common repro cyst in mares; what embryonic structure does it arise from?

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Fimbrial cyst; paramesonephric duct

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Most common cause of mastitis in heifers

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Coagulase negative Staphylococci

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Most common cause of mastitis in older cows

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Coagulase positive Staph aureus

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What causes Epizootic Bovine Abortion (foothills abortion) and how is it transmitted?

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Novel deltaproteobacterium; tick-borne (Ornithidoros); use silver stain, gram -

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Who is affected by foothills abortion?

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Pregnant heifers exposed to ticks for the first time; abortion or weak calves

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Gross findings with foothills abortion; key histo

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Ascites, lymph organ enlargement, thymic atrophy; granulomatous thymic inflammation

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Who commonly gets pyometra? Who does not?

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Dog and cow; Mare and queen

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When does pyometra occur in cattle, vs. dogs?

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Postpartum, vs. post estrus in dogs

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Key histo with pyometra

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Marked endometrial hyperplasia and progestational proliferation ALWAYS

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What is progestational change?

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Epithelial cells enlarged, columnar, vacuolated, with small, pyknotic nuclei

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Brucella species that affect goats; cattle; swine; dogs

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B. melitensis; B. abortus; B. suis

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Features of Brucella organism

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Gram -, intracellular

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Brucella pathogenesis; where in trophoblast does Brucella replicate?

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Ingestion–>regional lymph nodes (lymphadenitis)–>hematogenous spread to spleen, mammary, pregnant uterus, testis; RER

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What weird place does brucella sometimes end up

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Synovial structures

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Characteristic gross lesions with brucella (in placenta)

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Intercotyledonary exudate, edema fluid in fetal membranes

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Key histo with brucellosis in female? in male? in fetus?

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Intercotyledonary necrosis, especially adjacent to cotyledons, with intervillus area most affected, and trophoblasts stuffed with bacteria, vasculitis; necrotizing orchitis/epididymitis (tail); pyogranulomatous bronchopneumonia, and hepatitis

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Cause of contagious equine metritis; how is it transmitted; key histo
Taylorella equigenitalis; sexually; purulent endometritis and cervicitis
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Cause of peripartum endometritis in goats (recent article)
Paeniclostridium sordellii (gram + rods)
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How is brucellosis in swine different?
Produces focal granulomatous lesions or skeletal/joint lesions (osteomyelitis), and affects nonpregnant uterus
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What is the comon brucellosis disease in sheep causes by B. ovis? characteristic histo lesion?
Epididymitis in rams; characteristic sperm granuloma
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Pathogenesis of Brucella canis
Ingestion, or venereal, abortion after 50 days, testicular degeneration and epididymitis in males
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What type of organism is ureaplasma?
Mycoplasmataceae
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What is the portion of the placenta affected by ureaplasma? Key histo?
Amnion; macs and plasma cells; nonsuppurative alveolitis in fetus
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What type of organism is coxiella?
Rickettsiaceae; obligate intracellular, Giemsa, modified ZN
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Most common reservoir of coxiella; common coinfection in sheep and goats
Dairy cows, goats, sheep; toxoplasma gondii and chlamydophila
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Only organ gross lesions occur in with coxiella; appearance and localization of exudate
Placenta; thickened and leathery, with areas of mineralization, exudate worst in the intercotyledonary area
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Histologic appearance of coxiella
Trophoblast hyperplasia, diffuse suppurative placentitis, cotyledonary and intercotyledonary necrosis
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How to differentiate coxiella from chlamydophila?
No vasculitis, trophoblasts distended by foamy, pale blue microcolonies
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Type of organism- Chlamydophila; stain
Gram -, obligate intracellular bacteria, reticulate and elementary bodies; forms inclusions; Giemsa, modified ZN
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Chlamydophila abortus causes _____ in _________. AKA
Abortion; sheep, goats, cattle; ovine enzootic abortion
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If infected with chlamydophila abortus during early gestation, ewe ______; if infected later gestation, ewe will __________.
Abort in final trimester, or stillbirth/weak lamb; abort in the next pregnancy
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Gross lesions with chlamydophila abortus
Placenta looks like brucella, but equal involvement of cotyledons and intercotyledonary; prominent vessels due to marked vasculitis
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Key histo with chlamydophila
Marked vasculitis, fibrinoid necrosis, Necrotizing placentitis with chlamydial inclusions in trophoblasts
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Most common cause of mycotic placentitis; pathogenesis in cattle?
Aspergillus fumigatus; then zygomycetes; hematogenous arrival, begins in placentomes, then abortion late in gestation
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Gross lesions with mycotic placentitis in cow
Greatly enlarged cotyledons, necrotic with swollen margins (cupping)
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How do mares get mycotic placentitis
Ascending infection, begins at the cervical star
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What is pseudoplacentational endometrial hyperplasia (PEH); who is affected?
Segmental endometrial hyperplasia that resembles pregnancy implantation sites; dog only
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Classic histo with PEH
Broad-based polypoid or band of protruding tissue, 3 discrete layers (deep glandular, connective tissue, luminal epithelial junctional)
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TVT cell of origin; pathogenesis; karyotype
Histiocyte; cells transplanted and grow like a graft, spontaneous regression in <6 months; 57/58/59 chromosomes
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Clin path finding with TVT
polycythemia due to EPO production
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Stains for TVT
Lysozyme and alpha-1-antitrypsin
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Key histo for TVT
Round cells, mitoses, lymphocytes, intracytoplasmic vacuoles (cytology)
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Disease seen from: Campylobacter fetus subsp venerealis Campylobacter fetus subsp fetus Campylobacter jejuni
Campylobacter fetus subsp venerealis- infertility in cattle, abortion in cattle and sheep Campylobacter fetus subsp fetus- abortion in sheep Campylobacter jejuni- abortion in sheep
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Fetal lesion seen with campylobacter; key histo
Targetoid hepatic lesions; multifocal necrotizing hepatitis
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Key histo with subinvolution of placental sites
Heavily vacuolated cytoplasm (progestational), necrotic debris, endometrial regeneration and degenerating tophoblasts invading myometrium
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Key histo with ovotestes
Hypoplastic seminiferous tubules in medulla, ovarian tissue around periphery
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Most common testicular tumor in aged horses
Seminoma
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Gross appearance of: Seminoma Sustentacular Interstitial
Seminoma- White soft bulgey Sustentacular- White and tough, lobulated Interstitial- yellow, soft, contains hemorrhage and cysts
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Which testicular tumors produce hyperestrogenism? Associated lesions?
Sustentacular (more commonly) and interstitial; prostatomegaly with squamous cell metaplasia, bone marrow suppression
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Histo appearance of: Seminoma Sustentacular Interstitial
Seminoma- round, no stroma, mitoses, lymphocytes Sustentacular- palisading, columnar cells with fibrous stroma, lipid droplets Interstitial- polyhedral cells, granular/vacuolated cytoplasm, lipochrome pigment, cytoplasmic invag, scant stroma
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IHCs for: Seminoma Sustentacular Interstitial
Seminoma- PLAP, GATA4 negative Sustentacular- inhibin, AMH Interstitial- GATA4 positive
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EM findings with Sustentacular tumor
Intercellular junctions and crystals of charcot-bottcher
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Findings associated with granulosa cell tumors in the mare
Anestrous, continuous estrus, or male behavior
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Findings associated with granulosa cell tumors in the dog
Atrophy of contralateral ovary, cystic endometrial hyperplasia, pyometra
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IHC for dysgerminoma
SALL4, vimentin
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Who gets fibroadenomatous hyperplasia?What mediates hyperplasia in cat mammary?
Intact female cats <2; Progesterone
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Histo with fibroadenomatous hyperplasia
Proliferation of lactiferous ducts, separated by concentric or loose, edematous myofibroblastic stroma
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What feline breed is predisposed to mammary carcinoma
Siamese
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What are deciduomas associated with
Pseudopregnancy
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What does toxoplasma cause? Gross lesions?
Abortion in sheep and goats; leukomalacia in cerebral white matter of lamb, encephalitis, pneumonia, hepatitis; white flecks/nodules on cotyledons
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Histo with toxo
Edematous villi, necrosis, mineralization*, and organism in parasitophorous vacuole or free
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What does toxo bind to on target cells?
Laminin
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What does EHV-1 cause?
Respiratory disease most commonly, neurologic dz, abortion, neonatal dz
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Difference between subtype 1 and 2
Subtype 1- more severe respiratory disease, more neuro dz and abortion Subtype 2- mild respiratory dz, less abortion
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Gross lesions with EHV-1
Fetus fresh state, but severe pulmonary edema*** with fibrin casts Hepatic necrosis
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Histo with EHV-1
Bronchiolitis/bronchitis with INIBs Hepatitis with INIBs
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What kind of organism is treponema paraluiscuniculi? What does it cause?
Gram - spirochete; rabbit syphilis
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Gross lesions with treponema? Classic lesion in bucks?
Mucocutaneous ulceration and crusting (eyes, genital, mouth); star-shaped scrotal scar
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Key histo with treponema? Diagnostic test?
Epidermal hyperplasia, acanthosis, crusting, ulceration; wet mount dark field, Warthin-Starry stain
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Who gets trophoblastic emboli?
Any hemochorial placentation species- rodents, humans, NHPs
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Who is predisposed to endometrial venous aneurysms?
Non-pregnant, multiparous bunnies
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Most common tumor of the domestic rabbit
Uterine adenocarcinoma
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Where do ferrets get teratomas? Colts? What's weird about horse teratomas?
Adrenal; cryptorchid testes; They metastasize
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