FULL PAPER　 Wildlife Science

Embryo and fetal position during pregnancy by ultrasonographic examinations in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Fumio TERASAWA¹⁾*, Hiroshi AKIYAMA¹⁾, Toru SAKURAGI¹⁾, Shuto HANEDA¹⁾ and Chika SHIRAKATA¹⁾

 1) Enoshima Aquarium

FULL PAPER　Toxicology

Oxidative stress inducers potentiate 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-mediated pre-cardiac edema in larval zebrafish

Katsuki TANAKA¹⁾, Hikaru ADACHI¹⁾, Hironobu AKASAKA¹⁾, Junya TAMAOKI²⁾, Yuji FUSE²⁾, Makoto KOBAYASHI²⁾, Takio KITAZAWA¹⁾ and Hiroki TERAOKA¹⁾*

 1) School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University
 2) Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba

FULL PAPER　Bacteriology

Identification of genes required for the fitness of Rhodococcus equi during the infection of mice via signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis

Nuttapone SANGKANJANAVANICH¹⁾, Tsutomu KAKUDA¹⁾*, Yasunori SUZUKI¹⁾, Yukako SASAKI¹⁾ and Shinji TAKAI¹⁾

 1) Laboratory of Animal Hygiene, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University

FULL PAPER 　Epidemiology

Analysis of the effect of feedback feeding on the farm-level occurrence of porcine epidemic diarrhea in Kagoshima and Miyazaki Prefectures, Japan

Taiki YAMAGAMI^1)#, Takeshi MIYAMA^2)#, Haruya TOYOMAKI^1,3), Satoshi SEKIGUCHI^4,5), Yosuke SASAKI^5,6), Masuo SUEYOSHI⁴⁾ and Kohei MAKITA^1,2)*

 1) Veterinary Epidemiology Unit, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University
 2) Veterinary Epidemiology Unit, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University
 3) Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University
 4) Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki
 5) Center for Animal Disease Control, University of Miyazaki
 6) Department of Animal and Grassland Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki

FULL PAPER　Surgery

Chronic pain and gait analysis in dogs with degenerative hip joint disease treated with repeated intra-articular injections of platelet-rich plasma or allogeneic adipose-derived stem cells

Celina Emiko OKAMOTO-OKUBO¹⁾, Renata Navarro CASSU²⁾*, Jean Guilherme

Fernandes JOAQUIM¹⁾, Luciane dos REIS MESQUITA¹⁾, Sheila Canevese RAHAL¹⁾, Hugo S Salvador OLIVEIRA¹⁾, Regina TAKAHIRA¹⁾, Isadora ARRUDA¹⁾, Leandro MAIA¹⁾, Fernanda da CRUZ LANDIM¹⁾ and Stelio Pacca Loureiro LUNA¹⁾

 1) Department of Veterinary Surgery and Animal Reproduction, Department of Veterinary Clinics, São Paulo State University (Unesp), School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
 2) Department of Veterinary Surgery and Anesthesiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidade do Oeste Paulista

NOTE　 Internal Medicine

Successful outcome after a single endoscopic fecal microbiota transplantation in a Shiba dog with non-responsive enteropathy during the treatment with chlorambucil

Koji SUGITA^1,2), Ayaka SHIMA³⁾, Kaho TAKAHASHI¹⁾, Yasuyoshi MATSUDA¹⁾, Masaki MIYAJIMA¹⁾, Marin HIROKAWA¹⁾, Hirotaka KONDO⁴⁾, Junpei KIMURA⁵⁾, Genki ISHIHARA³⁾ and Keitaro OHMORI¹⁾*

 1) Cooperative Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture
 2) Sugita Animal Hospital
 3) Anicom Specialty Medical Institute Inc.
 4) Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University
 5) College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University