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Objective: To preliminarily investigate the possible changes in serum CHIT1 activity in cats with FIP. Methods: CHIT1 activity was measured in serum samples from clinically healthy cats (n = 17), cats with FIP (n = 19) and cats with diseases potentially characterized by macrophage activation (n = 20), after a preliminary assessment of the imprecision and linearity of the method. Results: The highest CHIT1 activity was found in cats with FIP, followed by sick cats and clinically healthy cats. The magnitude of the differences between groups was higher than the intra- and inter-assay imprecision of the method (&lt;5% and &gt;57%, respectively). Based on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, CHIT1 may differentiate sick from clinically healthy cats and, to a lesser extent, cats with FIP from cats without FIP. Conclusions: CHIT1 activity may identify sick cats and, within the appropriate clinical context, cats with FIP, although larger and more standardized studies, coupled with additional information on analytical performances of the method, are required to fully explore the diagnostic or prognostic potential of this test for FIP.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/v15091815","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,28]],"date-time":"2023-08-28T02:23:25Z","timestamp":1693189405000},"page":"1815","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Chitinase-1 Activity in Serum of Cats with FIP"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8529-572X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Angelica","family":"Stranieri","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Milan, 26900 Lodi, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gabriela","family":"\u00c1vila Morales","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Milan, 26900 Lodi, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Laura","family":"Brusasco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Milan, 26900 Lodi, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7117-7987","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Saverio","family":"Paltrinieri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Milan, 26900 Lodi, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"399","DOI":"10.1016\/j.imbio.2015.11.014","article-title":"Chitinases and immunity: Ancestral molecules with new functions","volume":"221","author":"Distefano","year":"2016","journal-title":"Immunobiology"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"221","DOI":"10.1007\/978-981-13-7318-3_11","article-title":"Human Chitinases: Structure, Function, and Inhibitor Discovery","volume":"Volume 1142","author":"Yang","year":"2019","journal-title":"Targeting Chitin-Containing Organisms. 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