Proposal of Standardization Methodology and Description in Aquatic Animal Health
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 479
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Interests: veterinary oncology; canine and feline meningiomas; small animal pituitary tumors
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Dear Colleagues,
The use of histopathology in fish sciences is broadly extended, although it is currently devoid of standardization across the literature. There have been initiatives to standardize every step of the histological evaluation, including sampling, tissue processing, description, diagnosis, interpretation, data recording and reporting, and statistical analysis, but in general, the histopathological systems applied to date present a series of limitations that hamper the reproducibility of the derived data. Some of the limitations may be addressed by the implementation of histopathology and other diagnostic techniques to other fields than the infectious and parasitic ones, those that classically rely upon strict rules. The major problem, in fact, is still the use of incorrect terms for descriptions and also diagnoses. The standardization of terminology and methods could bring improvements on reliability on the data, reproducibility, and worldwide meta-analyses, reinforcing the educational value of adopting a uniform system and language to interpret the findings. This Special Issue aims to connect the major number of specialists of the various fish disciplines, hopefully publishing some basic papers on methodology (fixatives, orientation of tissues, processing) and standardized descriptions of fish and shellfish tissues.
Dr. Luciana Mandrioli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fish and shellfish
- histopathology
- methodology
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