id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-021852-o0k2r0yo Simpson, Kenneth W. The Role of the Microbiota in Feline Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2015-12-04 .txt text/plain 3665 189 33 The only culture-independent study of the duodenal mucosal bacteria in cats to date employed FISH analysis to evaluate the numbers and types of bacteria associated with the duodenal mucosa and their relationship to clinical signs, histopathology, and mucosal cytokines. This study shows that changes in the number and type of mucosa-associated bacteria are related to the presence and severity of IBD in cats and raises the possibility that abnormal mucosal flora are involved in the etiopathogenesis of feline IBD. 13 For example, FISH analysis enabled the identification of invasive spiral bacteria in the ileum, colon, and regional lymph nodes of a cat with pyogranulomatous ileocolitis associated with recurrent episodes of fever and leukocytosis whose inflammatory process was considered sterile on the basis of histopathology (see Figure 10 -4C). ./cache/cord-021852-o0k2r0yo.txt ./txt/cord-021852-o0k2r0yo.txt