Increasing fatal AA amyloidosis in hunting falcons and how to identify the risk: A report from the United Arab Emirates

Amyloid

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 122-132

  Hampel, Mirjam Ricarda ^a,b   Kinne, Joerg ^b   Wernery, Ulrich ^b   Pospischil, Andreas ^a   Kellermann, Josef ^c   Linke, Reinhold Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d Reference Center of Amyloid Diseases   (Germany)

Author keywords

AA amyloidosis; Amino acid sequence; Bumble foot; Gout; Gyr falcon; Immunohistochemistry; Serum amyloid A concentration

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID A PROTEIN; SERUM AMYLOID A;

ADRENAL GLAND; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SMEAR; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUBAI; FALCONIFORMES; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOOT MALFORMATION; GOUT; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLEEN; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VISCERA; WASTING SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 70849092108     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: 17442818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506120903090759     Document Type: Article

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