THE LEVELS OF SOME BIOCHEMICAL COMPONENTS IN THE SERUM OF GOATS IN THE SAVANNAH ZONE OF NIGERIA

Little work has been done to determine blood protein and electrolyte levels in healthy goats in the savannah zone of Nigeria. With the increasing interest in goats as experimental animals and for production, there is an obvious need to determine these parameters. The free range goat husbandry methods in this zone are such that the intake of minerals needs to be known and thus correlated with the blood levels under the grazing conditions needs to be known so as to form a baseline for intensive farming methods. Reported are some biochemical components of serum in goats

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ЗМІНИ БІЛКОВИХ ПОКАЗНИКІВ КРОВІ КОРОПА ЗА ВИКОРИСТАННЯ КОМПЛЕКСУ СИМБІОНТНИХ МІКРООРГАНІЗМІВ

Scientific Messenger of LNU of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology ◽

10.15421/nvlvet7043 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (3(70)) ◽

pp. 181-184

Author(s):

T. Mazur ◽

I. Garkusha

Keyword(s):

Lactobacillus Acidophilus ◽

Total Protein ◽

Fish Farming ◽

Antagonistic Effect ◽

The Body ◽

Blood Protein ◽

Physiological Status ◽

Blood Levels ◽

Accurate Information ◽

The Impact

In modern conditions the intensification of cultivation and fish farming industrial fish farming today is based on the principles of technological pipeline. One way of improving the technology of cultivation and breeding of fish and maintain normal physiological status is the use of probiotic microorganisms. Fruits included in their composition can produce different active substances disposed of harmful metabolic products provide an antagonistic effect on pathogens. It is known that the use of probiotics affect the cellular and biochemical composition of blood, including the performance level of protein in the blood. The purpose of these studies was to determine the impact of complex probiotic microorganism Bacillus subtillis and Lactobacillus acidophilus compared with the use of these monocultures of microorganisms on the blood protein fractions of common carp. Through monitoring of total protein in serum may receive the most accurate information about the immune status carp. It was found that the inclusion in the diet of carp probiotic complex consisting of Bacillus subtilis and Lactobacillus acidophilus vplyvayea more positive on blood levels of total protein and its fractions in the serum of carp than using the latest in a monoculture. Besides data indicate intensification of metabolic processes in the body of the fish. However, the increase in γ–globulins shows a positive effect probiotynoho complex on humoral immunity factor carp.

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Relationship between functional activity of the adrenals and gonads in monkeys during puberty

Problems of Endocrinology ◽

10.14341/probl11464 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 41-43

Author(s):

V. Yu. Butnev ◽

N. P. Goncharov

Keyword(s):

Functional Activity ◽

Papio Hamadryas ◽

Endocrine Function ◽

Blood Levels ◽

Hormonal Changes ◽

Maximal Increase ◽

Aldosterone Level ◽

Experimental Animals ◽

Androgen Levels

Testicular and adrenocortical endocrine function was followed up for 1 year in pubertal male Papio hamadryas. Blood levels of androgens (testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone), corticosteroids (hydrocortisone, progesterone, 17-hydtpxyprogesterone, 17-hydroxvpregnanediol), and aldosterone were radioimmunoassayed. An increase of androgen levels (testosterone and dihydrotestosterone) in the blood of experimental animals during puberty was associated with a reliable reduction of corticosteroid concentration, most expressed in monkeys with the maximal increase of testosterone content. The detected hormonal changes did not influence the mineralocorticoid function of the adrenal cortex, because aldosterone level was unchanged over the entire follow-up period.

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Dietary di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate-impaired glucose metabolism in experimental animals

Human & Experimental Toxicology ◽

10.1191/0960327106het651oa ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 25 (9) ◽

pp. 531-538 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Marcela I Martinelli ◽

Norberto O Mocchiutti ◽

Claudio A Bernal

Keyword(s):

Skeletal Muscle ◽

Glycogen Synthesis ◽

High Plasma ◽

Blood Levels ◽

Experimental Animals ◽

P Content ◽

Male Wistar Rats ◽

Lactate Levels ◽

Ethylhexyl Phthalate

The effects of chronic intake of di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) on the main intermediate glycolytic metabolites in liver and gastrocnemius muscle were investigated in experimental animals. Male Wistar rats (90 -100 g) were fed for 21 days either with a standard chow or the same diet supplemented with 2% (w/w) of DEHP. The DEHP-fed rats had an altered in vivo glucose tolerance associated with abnormal glucose intermediate metabolite contents in liver and skeletal muscle. In these rats, the hepatic content of glucose-6 -phosphate (G-6 -P), fructose-6 -phosphate, pyruvate, lactate, glucose-1 -phosphate and glycogen decreased. At the same time, the G-6 -P content decreased while the pyruvate and lactate levels increased in skeletal muscle. These data, along with the high plasma glucose concentration and the normal lactate blood levels of this group, could indicate that DEHP-fed rats could present a deficiency in muscle glucose and lactate transport, a reduction of the flux through muscle hexokinase and hepatic glucokinase, and a reduction in glycogen synthesis.

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Blood Levels of Some Biochemical Components among Negroid Individuals with Hemoglobin A and AS

Physiological and Morphological Adaptation and Evolution ◽

10.1515/9783110803105.111 ◽

1979 ◽

pp. 111-114

Keyword(s):

Blood Levels ◽

Hemoglobin A ◽

Biochemical Components

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Analytical Electron Microscopy (AEM) of Meningeal Cells Exposed to Particulate Cobalt During Studies of Experimental Epilepsy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100053590 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 40 ◽

pp. 186-187

Author(s):

R.G. Frederickson ◽

R.G. Ulrich ◽

J.L. Culberson

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Analytical Electron Microscopy ◽

Experimental Epilepsy ◽

Metallic Cobalt ◽

Experimental Animals ◽

X Ray ◽

Brain Surface ◽

Meningeal Cells ◽

Analytical Electron ◽

The Brain

Metallic cobalt acts as an epileptogenic agent when placed on the brain surface of some experimental animals. The mechanism by which this substance produces abnormal neuronal discharge is unknown. One potentially useful approach to this problem is to study the cellular and extracellular distribution of elemental cobalt in the meninges and adjacent cerebral cortex. Since it is possible to demonstrate the morphological localization and distribution of heavy metals, such as cobalt, by correlative x-ray analysis and electron microscopy (i.e., by AEM), we are using AEM to locate and identify elemental cobalt in phagocytic meningeal cells of young 80-day postnatal opossums following a subdural injection of cobalt particles.

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Ultrastructure and analytical microprobe analysis of simian lung mite pigments

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100143249 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 324-325

Author(s):

R. W. Cole ◽

J. C. Kim

Keyword(s):

Biomedical Research ◽

Tissue Damage ◽

Microprobe Analysis ◽

Old World Monkeys ◽

Old World ◽

Experimental Animals ◽

The Past ◽

Lung Mite ◽

Mite Infestations ◽

Cardiopulmonary System

In recent years, non-human primates have become indispensable as experimental animals in many fields of biomedical research. Pharmaceutical and related industries alone use about 2000,000 primates a year. Respiratory mite infestations in lungs of old world monkeys are of particular concern because the resulting tissue damage can directly effect experimental results, especially in those studies involving the cardiopulmonary system. There has been increasing documentation of primate parasitology in the past twenty years.

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