Sentences with phrase «granuloma formation»

Dirofiliaria are important medical parasites, but diagnosis is unusual and is often only made after an infected person happens to have a chest X-ray following granuloma formation in the lung; the nodule may be large enough to resemble lung cancer on the X-ray and require a biopsy for a pathologic assessment.

Cavaliers are commonly affected by a condition called eosinophilic stomatitis, which often manifests on the soft palate.1 This inflammatory condition is similar to eosinophilic granulomas in cats, but histologically, the disease in Cavaliers often lacks granuloma formation.

Kirschner explains that they run computer simulations of infection and granuloma formation to see what happens when some factors are removed or a drug intervention is added to the model.

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Adjuvants are known to cause local reactions characterized by inflammation, granulomas and, occasionally, sterile abscess formation.18 Currently, all inactivated (killed) feline vaccines sold in the U.S. and Canada are adjuvanted.

White blood cells called mononuclear cells (macrophages and lymphocytes) and plasma cells are responsible for the formation of granulomas, or masses of inflammatory cells, around the blood vessels in CNS tissues, but the reason for their presence is not understood.

The disease is histologically characterized by eosinophilic and lymphoplasmacytic infiltrates and the formation of eosinophilic granulomas in different organs.