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ArticleJournal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc2023

Factors affecting the differential epithelial cell count in preputial cytology of healthy intact dogs.

Meropi Vergou, Haralabos N Ververidis, Eleftherios Meletis, Polychronis Kostoulas, Dimitra Pardali, Mathios E Mylonakis

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Article in Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical Management of Testicular Tumors in Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Meropi VergouCompanion Animal Clinic, School of Public and One (Integrated) Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.
Haralabos N VerveridisCompanion Animal Clinic, School of Public and One (Integrated) Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.
Eleftherios MeletisSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Laboratory of Epidemiology, School of Public and One (Integrated) Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2862-7182
Polychronis KostoulasSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Laboratory of Epidemiology, School of Public and One (Integrated) Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.
Dimitra PardaliDiagnostic Laboratory, School of Public and One (Integrated) Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.
Mathios E MylonakisCompanion Animal Clinic, School of Public and One (Integrated) Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-5161-3056
University of Thessaly · GR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Information is limited on the factors that may affect the preputial differential epithelial cell count in healthy intact dogs. Our objectives were to establish RIs of the preputial differential epithelial cell count in dogs and investigate the potential impact of signalment, presence of gross preputial discharge or neutrophils, preputial cleaning, and normal estrogen variation on the differential cell count. We enrolled prospectively 50 client-owned, healthy dogs in our study. Preputial cytology smears were obtained, and we performed a 4-part (parabasal, intermediate, superficial, cornified) differential cell count, before and after gentle preputial cleaning. We found higher counts of fully cornified cells (median: 11-12%) compared to previous studies. The cleaning procedure significantly decreased the intermediate (

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CytodiagnosisNeutrophilsAnimalsCell CountDogsEpithelial CellsEstrogensHumansEstrogenscaninecellscytologyepithelialprepuce

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PMID37571921
PMCPMC10621545
OpenAlexW4385778720

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