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Vet Pathol 41:285-287 (2004)
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Nodular Thyroid Hyperplasia in a Cynomolgus Monkey

M. Kouchi and K. Okimoto

Abstract

Nodular thyroid hyperplasia was found in a 4-year-old male cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis). The monkey was clinically normal; however, necropsy revealed multiple variably sized nodules in both lobes of the thyroid gland. In contrast to the fairly uniform diameter of the lumen of follicles in the surrounding gland, the diameter of the follicular lumen within the hyperplastic nodules was highly variable and ranged from nonexistent to cystlike. Occasionally, in the larger follicles there were papillary infoldings of epithelium. The hyperplastic nodules were partially encapsulated by a fibrous capsule and showed little compression of the surrounding tissue. The follicular cells and colloid comprising the hyperplastic nodule were immunohistochemically positively stained with the antibody for thyroglobulin. Ultrastructurally, the cells forming follicles had numerous microvilli along the luminal surface, and lysosomal bodies and dilated rough endoplasmic reticulum in the cytoplasm. All these morphologic findings are consistent with nodular thyroid hyperplasia, which is rare in nonhuman primates.

Key words: Cynomolgus monkeys; Macaca fascicularis; nodular goiter; nodular thyroid hyperplasia; thyroid gland.

Request reprints from Dr. M. Kouchi, Safety Research Laboratories, Dainippon Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 33-94 Enoki-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka 564-0053 (Japan). mami-kouchi{at}dainippon-pharm.co.jp.




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