Enzyme Profile of Heart and Skeletal Muscles, Liver and Kidney of Cows and Pigs

Abstract

In modern medicine, clinical enzymology plays an important role in the diagnosis, prognosis and evaluation of different diseases and metabolic disorders (WACKER and COOMBS, 1969;GOODALE and WIDMANN, 1970;FREELAND and KREMER, 1970). Research into and application of clinical enzymology in veterinary medicine have expanded rapidly since its potential in the evaluation of diseases and metabolic disorders was realized. Much of the information gained in human medicine studies is being extrapolated in veterinary medicine, a practice which in many cases appears to be incorrect and may lead to faulty interpretation of the results. Metabolism, nutrition and other conditions are different in many domestic animals from those of man, leading to different functions of body organs which result in many cases in different enzyme profiles of the different organs and consequently a different serum enzyme profile.While it is relatively simple to establish the normal values of enzymes, metabolites and ions in the blood, the interpretation of the enzyme changes in the blood due to disease is difficult without knowledge of the enzyme profile of different organs in the body.Previous work (KELLER, 1971;CORNELIUS et al., 1959) described enzyme distribution and level in cattle tissues and transaminases in swine tissue. The values reported by the two groups are not in agreement for cattle, and there is only a partial picture for swine (CORNELIUS et al. 1959).Both KELLER (1971) andCORNELIUS et al. (1959) based their methods on enzyme extraction with a glass homogenizer. Furthermore, Keller ground his tissues in isotonic solution. The method of enzyme extraction in this work was Kimron Veterinarv Institute. Deuartment of Biochemistrv. Affiliated with Tel-Aviv Uni-

Enzyme Profile of Heart and Skeletal Muscles, Liver and Lung of Roosters and Geese

“…Of interest are the ratios of enzyme activity ( Table 3, 4). These could be of help in identifying damaged tissue.…”

“…While most research in clinical enzymology of domestic animals has been done in plasma and serum, and some work has been done in tissues (BOGIN and SOMMER, 1976;KELLER, 1971;KELLER et al, 1971;BOYD, 1962;CORNELIUS et al, 1959), a little has been done on enzyme profile of tissues in poultry (CORNELIUS et al, 1959;FOWLER, 1970;PAVEL, 1967;CLARKSON and RICHARDS, 1971). These studies however are incomplete and the values reported are not in agreement.…”

Enzyme Profile of Turkey Tissues and Serum

“…Most research in veterinary clinical enzymology of domestic animals has been done on plasma and serum (CLARKSON and RICHARDS, 1971;FRIEDLAND and KREMER, 1970;KANEKO and CORNELIUS, 1971), while relatively little has been done with animal tissues (BOGIN and SOMMER, 1976;BOGIN and ISRAELI, 1976;KELLER, 1971;BOYD, 1962;CORNELIUS et al, 1959). A literature survey on general and comparative enzyme biochemistry of birds (PAN, 1971) showed that most work done was with serum and blood enzymes but some studies were made with tissues (CORNELIUS et al, 1959;BOGIN and ISRAELI, 1976;CLARKSON and RICHARDS, 1971).…”