The protein and PGE metabolite content of the aqueous humor from untreated and flunixin meglumine pretreated dogs was determined prior to and after anterior chamber paracentesis. In the untreated dogs the concentrations of protein and PGE" metabolite in aqueous humor were greatly elevated secondary to paracentesis. Intravenously administered flunixin meglumine (1.1 mg/kg or 2.2 mg/kg) significantly reduced these inflammatory parameters, confirming that prostaglandins are involved in the stability of the blood-aqueous barrier by paracentesis in the canine eye. The clinical implication of these results is that intravenous adminstration of flunixin meglumine before intraocular surgery should be considered as an adjunct therapy to reduce intraoperative and postoperative uveitis.

Digital microscopy, a comprehensive integration of digital imaging and light microscopy, can assist the pathologist to observe, acquire, record, share, analyze, and manage pathology image data. To lead the activity for establishing new generation digital microscopy capacity, novel concepts and strategies of digital pathology information flow and digital pathology platform were designed to integrate personal digital pathology microscopy workstations and other pathology imaging modalities with centralized data storage/management. In addition, a strategy for Web-enabled interactive telepathology that would permit global capacity was designed. A novel concept of high content pathology was also created to develop an automated tissue microscopy imaging and screening approach. These new concepts, strategies, and approaches guided the development and implementation of a digital pathology platform, a telepathology platform, and automated tissue slide imaging capacity. Digital microscopy photography is now able to replace photographic film in toxicologic pathology. Digital pathology and telepathology platforms can provide a networked environment for multisite, global team participation. Our practice also ascertained the central value of digital microscopy which can provide innovative quantitative pathology information and data mining capability with various imaging biomarkers via advanced digital image processing and pathology informatics; these are now the focus of ongoing development.

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