SHORT CONTRIBUTION Possible association between chronic laminitis and some biochemical parameters in dairy cattle

Effects of chelated Zn/Cu/Mn on redox status, immune responses and hoof health in lactating Holstein cows

“…Lame cows have been reported to have lower blood Zn levels than healthy cows [ 7 ], which is consistent with the results of the present study. As shown in Table 7 , administration of organic trace minerals resulted in increased Zn, Cu and Mn in serum, which may have been due to the better availability of these materials from organic forms.…”

“…Lameness is a crucial welfare issue in modern dairy husbandry that could result in serious economic losses to dairy producers [ 27 ] because of decreased milk yield [ 5 ], reduced fertility [ 7 21 ], and increased treatment costs and culling rates [ 8 ]. Indeed, lameness has been identified as the third most important health problem in dairy farming following mastitis and infertility [ 17 ].…”

Scientific report on the effects of farming systems on dairy cow welfare and disease

“…Physiological changes associated with lameness Belge et al (2004) demonstrated cows with signs of chronic claw horn disruption had raised cortisol levels compared with a control group. As well as plasma cortisol, Belge et al (2004) assessed a number of other biochemical parameters, including blood potassium, iron, sodium, zinc, calcium, phosphorus, creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and total protein (TP) in cows showing evidence of chronic claw horn disruption.…”

“…Physiological changes associated with lameness Belge et al (2004) demonstrated cows with signs of chronic claw horn disruption had raised cortisol levels compared with a control group. As well as plasma cortisol, Belge et al (2004) assessed a number of other biochemical parameters, including blood potassium, iron, sodium, zinc, calcium, phosphorus, creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and total protein (TP) in cows showing evidence of chronic claw horn disruption. In this study, TP was significantly raised in the diseased group which was attributed to an acute inflammatory response rather than any other physiological response, although dehydration or presence of other inflammatory disorders such as gastrointestinal parasitism were not excluded and no plasma protein electrophoresis was performed to determine if acute phase proteins were raised.…”

Comparative proteomics analysis provide novel insight into laminitis in Chinese Holstein cows

“…Thus, laminitis has been an invisible killer of dairy cows. In recent years, many scholars have studied the etiology of laminitis [ 3 – 5 ], laminar morphology [ 6 ], metabolism [ 7 ], pathophysiology [ 1 ], clinical diagnosis [ 8 , 9 ], and comprehensive treatment [ 10 ] in laminitis cows. Through intense efforts to understand the root cause of clinical laminitis in past decades, the etiology of laminitis is preliminarily considered to be subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) [ 11 , 12 ], but the pathogenesis of laminitis is not clearly understood.…”