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  2. Cerebrolysin - Wikipedia

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    Cerebrolysin (developmental code name FPF-1070) is an experimental mixture of enzymatically-treated peptides derived from pig brain whose constituents can include brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), nerve growth factor (NGF), and ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF).

  3. Dexamethasone - Wikipedia

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    Dexamethasone is a fluorinated glucocorticoid medication [10] used to treat rheumatic problems, a number of skin diseases, severe allergies, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), croup, brain swelling, eye pain following eye surgery, superior vena cava syndrome (a complication of some forms of cancer), [11] and along with antibiotics in tuberculosis. [10]

  4. Vesicular exanthema of swine virus - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms are very similar to FMD and include: Fever up to 107 °F (42 °C). Vesicles on the epithelium of the snout, lips, nostrils, tongue, feet and mammary glands. Epithelial lesions identical to the other vesicular diseases. No systemic lesions. Mortality is low, but there may be some deaths in suckling piglets. Growing pigs may become ...

  5. Mucositis - Wikipedia

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    Caphosol is a mouth rinse which has been shown to prevent and treat oral mucositis caused by radiation and high-dose chemotherapy. MuGard is a FDA-cleared mucoadhesive oral protectant, developed by Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , that is designed to form a protective hydrogel coating over the oral mucosa while a patient is undergoing ...

  6. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    pig./pigm. pigmentum: paint p.m. post meridiem: evening or afternoon p.o. per os: by mouth or orally AMA style avoids use of this abbreviation (spell out "orally") ppt. præparata: prepared p.r., PR per rectum: rectally p.r.n., PRN pro re nata: as needed PRN is pertactin, a virulence factor of the bacterium that causes pertussis: pt. perstetur ...

  7. HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer - Wikipedia

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    HPV+OPC presents in one of four ways: as an asymptomatic abnormality in the mouth found by the patient or a health professional such as a dentist; with local symptoms such as pain or infection at the site of the tumor; with difficulties of speech, swallowing, and/or breathing; or as a swelling in the neck (if the cancer has spread to lymph nodes).

  8. Foot-and-mouth disease virus - Wikipedia

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    Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is a virus in the genus Aphthovirus that causes foot-and-mouth disease. [1] As a member of the family Picornaviridae, FMDV is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus. Like other members of the Picornavirus family, FMDV is small and unenveloped, with an icosahedral capsid. [2]

  9. Lymphoma in animals - Wikipedia

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    General signs and symptoms include depression, fever, weight loss, loss of appetite, loss of hair or fur and vomiting. Lymphoma is the most common cancerous cause of hypercalcemia (high blood calcium levels) in dogs. [9] It can lead to the above signs and symptoms plus increased water drinking, increased urination, and cardiac arrhythmias.