As part of an ongoing, long-term study on the reproductive ecology and health status of imperial cormorants (Phalacrocorax atriceps), blood samples were collected to establish baseline values for hematologic parameters (hematocrit, red and white blood cell counts, leukocyte profile, heterophil:lymphocyte ratio, total solids) and serum chemis tries (glucose, uric acid, urea, total protein, triglycerides, cholesterol,
albumin:globulin ratio, alkaline phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase, creatine phosphokinase, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, calcium, phosphorus).
(9) The reversal of
albumin:globulin ratio seen in our patient is also a feature of bacillated leprosy, which tends to normalise with regression of the disease.
(1) A/G =
Albumin:globulin ratio. (2) Cross = Crossbred (non-descript) calves.
Significant correlations to levels of certain OC contaminant classes also suggested possible alteration of protein ([up arrow] blood urea nitrogen, [down arrow] albumin:globulin ratio), carbohydrate ([down arrow] glucose), and ion ([up arrow] sodium, [down arrow] magnesium) regulation.
2002): in juvenile loggerhead sea turtles captured in offshore waters of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, significant correlations were observed between [summation]PCB concentrations and increased BUN concentrations and a decreased albumin:globulin ratio. Similar correlations were seen in the present study, although not necessarily with [summation]PCB concentrations.
In conditions such as nephrotic syndrome, the serum albumin and the albumin:globulin ratio are low.
Saline-diluted serum retains a constant albumin:globulin ratio, and alteration of this ratio is known to affect the Ektachem 700XR method (9-12).
Reference values of selected blood chemistry measurements in clinically healthy goats Blood parameter Reference values Glucose (mmol/L) 2.78-4.16 Cholesterol (mmol/L) -- Creatinine ([micro]mol/L) 88.4 0-159.00 Total protein (g/L) 64.00-70.00 Albumin (g/L) 27.00-39.00 Globulin (g/L) 27.00-41.00 A/G (
albumin:globulin ratio) 6.30-12.60 Urea (mmol/L) 3.57-7.14 Source: Kaneko (1997).
Significant interspecies differences were found in blood values, including Hb level (P = .04), PCV (P < .01), MCHC (P = .01), MCH (P < .01), MCV (P < .01), WBC (P = .01), heterophil relative count (P = .01), lymphocyte relative count (P = .01), eosinophil relative count (P < .01), eosinophil absolute count (P < .01), aspartate aminotransferase level (P = .01), amylase level (P < .01), glucose level (P < .01), chloride level (P < .01), albumin level (P < .01),
albumin:globulin ratio (P < .01), and P level (P < .01).
The BCG method underestimated the albumin level in samples from normal patients (indicated by a normal
albumin:globulin ratio) and overestimated the albumin level in samples from clinically abnormal penguins (indicated by a decreased
albumin:globulin ratio).
It has been stated that prealbumin should be included in the calculation of the
albumin:globulin ratio (10,31,32) and that it can act as a negative acute-phase reactant; (13) however, because the role of prealbumin in the psittacine immune response could be species-specific and is as yet unclear, (13) prealbumin was not evaluated in this study.
Birds with active aspergillosis also had significantly increased globulin levels (P < .001) and significant decreases in both albumin levels (P < .001) and
albumin:globulin ratios (P < .001).