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Effects of sex and age on the osmotic stability of Sahel goat erythrocytes
- Source :
- Comparative Clinical Pathology. 25:15-22
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Adaptation of goats to the arid and semi-arid environments may involve adjustments in erythrocyte osmoregulation. Sexual dimorphic and age-related effects on osmotic stability of the goat erythrocyte were investigated to determine physiological variations. Apparently healthy male (n = 23) and non-pregnant dry female (n = 24) Sahel goats, aged 1½–2, >2–2½, and >2½ years with mean body weights of 10.35–27.21 kg, were selected for the study from a semi-intensively managed flock. Heparinised venous blood of each goat was used to determine packed cell volume, erythrocyte count, mean corpuscular volume and osmotic fragility. Erythrocyte parameters did not vary with sex or age of the animal. Erythrocyte osmotic fragility (EOF), determined in hypotonic buffered saline, did not show sexual difference, but age elicited significant (p 1½–2 years, respectively. Body weights increased (p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
040301 veterinary sciences
medicine.medical_treatment
0402 animal and dairy science
Erythrocyte fragility
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Venous blood
Biology
040201 dairy & animal science
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
0403 veterinary science
Sexual dimorphism
Endocrinology
Internal medicine
medicine
Osmoregulation
Tonicity
Anatomy
medicine.symptom
Saline
Mean corpuscular volume
Weight gain
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1618565X and 16185641
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comparative Clinical Pathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........81b0e854ad7487f7c9bbe35d64870089
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00580-015-2130-z