| canine distemper virus from diseased large felids: biological properties and phylogenetic relationships. | specific pathogen free (spf) domestic cats were inoculated with tissue homogenate obtained from a chinese leopard (panthera pardus japonensis) that had died in a north american zoo from a natural infection with canine distemper virus (cdv). the cats developed a transient cell-associated cdv viraemia along with pronounced lymphopenia but did not show any clinical symptoms. plasma neutralizing-antibody titres against the homologous cdv (a92-27/4, isolated from the chinese leopard) were consistentl ... | 1996 | 8601773 |
| evaluation of the pituitary-gonadal response to gnrh, and adrenal status, in the leopard (panthera pardus japonensis) and tiger (panthera tigris). | frequent blood samples were collected to study hormonal responses to gnrh in male and female leopards and tigers. animals were anaesthetized with ketamine-hcl and blood samples were collected every 5 min for 15 min before and 160 min after i.v. administration of gnrh (1 micrograms/kg body weight) or saline. no differences in serum cortisol concentrations were observed between sexes within species, but mean cortisol was 2-fold greater in leopards than tigers. gnrh induced a rapid rise in lh in al ... | 1988 | 3123664 |
| the complete mitochondrial genome of the north chinese leopard (panthera pardus japonensis). | the north chinese leopard (panthera pardus japonensis) is an endemic subspecies of panthera pardus to china, living in small and isolated populations with a severely fragmented distribution. here we first sequenced and annotated its complete mitochondrial genome. the total length of the north chinese leopard is of 16,966 base pairs that consist of 2 rrna gene, 22 trna genes, 13 protein-coding genes, 1 olr and 1 control region (cr). the structures of the genomes were highly similar to other felid ... | 2016 | 25028790 |
| systemic arterial hypertension secondary to chronic kidney disease in two captive-born large felids. | systemic arterial hypertension (sht) has been widely described in the domestic cat (felis catus). in these feline patients, sht is considered as the most common vascular disorder of middle-aged to older animals, and secondary sht related to chronic kidney disease (ckd) represents the most common form of the disease. we describe here the first two cases of spontaneous sht in large felids, i.e. one 18-year old, 34.4 kg, male north-chinese leopard (panthera pardus japonensis, case #1) and one 20-ye ... | 2017 | 28435002 |