Happy #MicroscopeMonday 🔬ft a gastric neuroendocrine tumor in a bearded dragon! Bearded dragons have a high prevalence of this tumor that originates primarily in the pyloric mucosa, are highly aggressive with consistent hepatic metastasis and intravascular tumor emboli.

#beardeddragons #tumors

Happy #MicroscopeMonday 🔬 fr an American black bear 🧠 with GM1-gangliosidosis! GM1 is a sphingolipidoses lysosomal storage disease with a beta-galactosidase deficiency. It has an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern with a defective GLB1 gene.

#blackbear #neuropathology #storagedisease

Happy #microscopemonday with Trichomonas gallinae immunohistochemistry in a house finch esophagus! T. gallinae is a flagellate protozoal parastite that infects respiratory and GI tract of pigeons, finches, and raptors! It is called canker or croup in pigeons and frounce in raptors.

#birds #parasite