| ecpv2 dna in equine squamous cell carcinomas and normal genital and ocular mucosa. | squamous cell carcinoma (scc) represents the most common malignant tumour of the eye and external genitals in horses. comparable to humans, papillomaviruses (pv) have been proposed as etiological agents of cancer in horses and recently, equine papillomavirus type 2 (ecpv2) has been identified in genital sccs. hitherto it had never been demonstrated in ocular sccs. the first goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of ecpv2 dna in tissue samples from equine genital and ocular sccs, geni ... | 2011 | 20813468 |
| bovine papillomavirus type 1 and equus caballus papillomavirus 2 in equine squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck in a connemara mare. | in january 2010, 18 months after excision of an ocular squamous cell carcinoma (scc), a connemara mare presented with anorexia and periorbital/parotideal lesions. post mortem examination revealed these lesions as forming one entity, with 2 additional growths in the retropharyngeal region and the left jugular groove, respectively. the lesions were confirmed histopathologically as sccs. using pcr, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmcs) from 2008 and 2010, tumour tissue, intact skin and vulval ... | 2011 | 21668491 |