Again, five video sequences (30 seconds each) of randomly chosen mucosa sections were recorded.
After a period of 2 weeks had passed, the images of all 91 patients were reevaluated by the assessors, and the grades of gastric mucosa atrophy were recorded in a similar fashion.
A 10x objective was placed onto the sublingual mucosa, and microscopic images were recorded with an S-VHS video recorder (Panasonic AG-TL 700, Matsushita Electric Ind. Co. Ltd, Osaka, Japan).
Sex, age, body condition, and macroscopic aspects of hooves, mucosae, and internal organs were recorded.
The animals' sex; age; body condition; and macroscopic aspects of hooves, mucosae, and internal organs were recorded.
Complex patterns of the folds and mucous cells were recorded in the intestinal mucosa.
Signal intensities of the mucosa, submucosa, muscularis propria, and serosa or subserosa were recorded, as well as the amount of layers in which the normal gastric wall could be differentiated into.
Besides the systematic evaluation of the data with the help of an anamnesis scheme (Fig. 1), subjective estimations of the patients with regard to oral mucosa, salivation, temporomandibular joints (TMJ) and function of dentures were recorded.
The results of cystoscopy were recorded as positive (papillary growth or abnormalities in flat mucosa strongly suspicious for CIS), suspicious (irregular appearance in flat mucosa, not otherwise specified) or negative.
