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Vet Pathol 37:104-107 (2000)
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Localized Amyloidosis in Canine Mammary Tumors

H. Taniyama, A. Kitamura, Y. Kagawa, K. Hirayama, T. Yoshino and S. Kamiya

Abstract

Histopathologic and immunohistochemical examinations were performed on localized amyloidosis associated with mammary tumors in two dogs. These tumors were identified as adenoma and adenocarcinoma. An acellular, amorphous pale eosinophilic material (amyloid) was observed in the lumina of acini lined by neoplastic cells and in the stroma of the tumors. Concentrically laminated pale eosinophilic bodies (corpora amylacea) were also found in the lumina of the acini. Amyloid and corpora amylacea stained positively with Congo red with and without 5% potassium permanganate pretreatment and revealed a green birefringence under polarized light. Corpora amylacea showed an occasional Maltese-cross pattern. Immunohistochemically, amyloid and corpora amylacea usually stained positively with anti-bovine {alpha}-casein antibody but negatively with anti-human amyloid AA, anti-bovine {kappa}-light and {lambda}-light chains, anti-human lactoferrin, anti-human transferrin, anti-human secretory component, and anti-human polyglucosan antibodies. These findings suggested that the amyloid deposition in these canine mammary tumors was related to lactating casein.

Key words: Amyloid; casein; dogs; immunohistochemistry; mammary tumor.

Request reprints from Dr. Hiroyuki Taniyama, Department of Veterinary Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, 582-1 Bunkyodai-Midorimachi, Ebetsu, Hokkaido 069-8501 (Japan).




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