Seasonal variations of some serum electrolyte concentrations in sheep and goats

Piccione, Giuseppe; Messina, Vanessa; Vazzana, Irene; Dara, Salvatore; Giannetto, Claudia; Assenza, Anna

doi:10.1007/s00580-011-1198-3

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“…These changes are controlled by T3, T4 and COR, which facilitate the physiological adaptation to changing climatic conditions. It is well known that blood and physiological seasonal variations could be due to the activity of the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei, which regulate metabolic and endocrine functions (Piccione et al 2011(Piccione et al , 2012. Endocrine and physiological changes reflect endogenous adaptive mechanisms to environmental changes associated with the seasons ( Piccione et al 2009;Ribeiro et al 2015).…”

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Effects of the dry and the rainy season on endocrine and physiologic profiles of goats in the Brazilian semi-arid region

Ribeiro

Costa

Filho

et al. 2017

Italian Journal of Animal Science

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This study investigated the effect of season on the endocrine and adaptive profiles of a Brazilian Creole goat population in a semi-arid region of Brazil during the dry and the rainy season. We considered physiological, morphological, biochemical, haematological, hormonal and anatomical profiles. The experiment used 80 adult goats (2-to 5-year-old) and lactating (160 ± 14 days of lactation length) goats, with an average daily milk yield of 500.9 ± 13 g. Physiological parameters (rectal temperature, RT; respiratory rate, RR; heart rate, HR; skin temperature, ST) were high (p < .05) in the afternoon in both seasons. There was a significant effect of season (p < .05) on anatomical parameters (hair diameter, HD; hair length, HL; coat thickness, CT). Haematological, biochemical and hormonal parameters were also significantly affected by season (p < .05). We measured the biochemical and hormonal characteristics changes during different seasons; metabolism was reduced during heat stress and accelerated during cold stress. These hormones facilitate the physiological parameters involved in the adaptation process. Our results confirm that the adaptive capacity of the animals cannot be described solely by RT and RR.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Effects of the dry and the rainy season on endocrine and physiologic profiles of goats in the Brazilian semi-arid region

Ribeiro

Costa

Filho

et al. 2017

Italian Journal of Animal Science

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“…It is evident that the blood levels of various blood parameters can be used as criteria for diagnosis and prognosis of metabolic diseases, as well as for assessment of nutritional status (BALIKCI et al, 2007;KARAPEHLIvAN et al, 2007;TANRITANIR et al, 2009;BAGNICKA et al, 2014). However, in the last few years, many researchers have shown that the blood parameters of small ruminants are influenced by many factors such as age (MBASSA and POULSEN, 1991;ANTUNOvIC et al, 2017), geographical locations with different climates, gender, season, breed (AZAB and ABDEL-MAKSOUD, 1999;ANWAR et al, 2012;PICCIONE et al, 2012;DONIA et al, 2014;BAGNICKA et al, 2014;RIBEIRO et al, 2016), and the physiological stages of production (AZAB and ABDEL-MAKSOUD, 1999;IRIADAM, 2007;PICCIONE et al, 2011;DONIA et al, 2014;SADJADIAN et al, 2013). Several studies showed great variations in the levels of blood parameters between breeds of goats during the periods of pregnancy, parturition, and lactation (TANRITANIR et al, 2009;IRIADAM, 2007;WAZIRI et al, 2010;DARWESH et al, 2013).…”

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Plasma biochemical and minerals parameters in Arbia goats of a semi-arid region of North-Eastern Algeria during different stages of production

Allaoua¹,

Mahdi²

2018

Vet. arhiv

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“…Several researchers have documented information on the normal values of blood parameters in domestic animal species (Ewuola et al, 2017;Isaac et al, 2013;Isidahomen et al, 2011;Alderson, 1992;Obi and Anosa, 1980;Bhergariu et al, 1984) and changes in these parameters have been studied in cattle (Gherguiru et al, 1984;Essien et al, 2011), sheep (Vihan and Rai, 1987;Gurcan et al, 2010) and goats (Tambuwal et al, 2002;Ovuru and Ekweozor, 2004;Opara et al, 2010). But the values vary according to the growth requirements, breeds and age (Piccione et al, 2007), environmental factors, managemental conditions (Arfuso et al, 2016), sexual maturity (Piccione et al, 2012), and the productivity of the animals (Mandan et al, 2016). The physiological adaptation and the systemic relationship are widely determined using the haematological values (Shah et al, 2007).…”

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Effects of breed, haemoglobin and potassium polymorphism on blood biochemical profiles of agro-pastoral goats

Sam¹,

Ukpanah²,

Eyoh³

et al. 2018

J. Anim. Sci. Vet. Med.

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This study was conducted to determine the effects of breed, haemoglobin (Hb) and potassium (k) types on blood profiles of agro-pastoral goat herds in NorthWestern Nigeria. A total of two hundred and fifty (250) agropastoral lactating does comprising of 109 Red Sokoto (RS), 26 Sahel (SH), 34 Kano Brown and 81 Crosses (CRS) were involved in the study. Blood was sampled from all the animals and analysed for packed cell volume (PCV), haemoglobin concentration [Hb], sodium (Na), total protein (TP), albumin (Alb), globulin (Glob) and glucose (Glu). The effects of breed, haemoglobin and potassium types on blood biochemical profile were determined using General Linear Model (GLM) procedures of SAS, significant means were separated using Duncan Multiple Range Test. The electrophoretic analysis showed three haemoglobin genotypes HbAA, HbAB and HbBB and two potassium types were observed; low potassium (LK) and high potassium (HK). The results showed that all the blood parameters measured were within the range of normal values of serum electrolytes of goats. The breeds of goats had no significant influence on blood biochemical profiles sampled except Sahel goats which had higher Total Protein (64.44±0.49 g/l) and Albumin (31.12±0.37 g/l). It was concluded that haemoglobin and potassium types had no influence on blood biochemical profile of the herd of goat studied.

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Seasonal variations of some serum electrolyte concentrations in sheep and goats

Cited by 27 publications

References 12 publications

Effects of the dry and the rainy season on endocrine and physiologic profiles of goats in the Brazilian semi-arid region

Effects of the dry and the rainy season on endocrine and physiologic profiles of goats in the Brazilian semi-arid region

Plasma biochemical and minerals parameters in Arbia goats of a semi-arid region of North-Eastern Algeria during different stages of production

Effects of breed, haemoglobin and potassium polymorphism on blood biochemical profiles of agro-pastoral goats

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