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12 January 2021 CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, VITAMIN, ELECTROPHORESIS, AND HEMATOLOGIC ANALYTES OF BLACK-HEADED IBIS (THRESKIORNIS MELANOCEPHALUS)
Christoph Leineweber, Jörg Beckmann, Uta Westerhüs, Elisabeth Müller, Dominik Fischer
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Abstract

The evaluation of laboratory blood analytes is an important tool for health assessment in avian medicine. Unfortunately, there is a lack of suitable reference values for many zoo bird species. The goal of the present study was to establish reference intervals for a wide range of blood analytes in healthy black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus) kept in a zoologic garden. Lithium heparinized blood samples from 15 individuals were collected, and 18 different clinical chemistry analytes were measured. New are especially the minimum and maximum values for bile acid (2.38–49.4 µmol/L), cholinesterase (439–1260 U/L), vitamin A (0.65–1.70 mg/L), vitamin E (26.3–52.5 mg/L), and capillary zone electrophoresis (prealbumin, 10.2–23.4%; albumin, 35.9–44.1%; A/G ratio, 1.07–1.69; α-, 15.7–20.0%; β-, 13.5–19.1%; γ-globulin, 6.08–11.3%). The measured values for clinical chemistry, vitamin, electrophoresis, and hematologic analytes are a basis for further studies and for diagnostics and clinical treatment in this ibis species.

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Christoph Leineweber, Jörg Beckmann, Uta Westerhüs, Elisabeth Müller, and Dominik Fischer "CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, VITAMIN, ELECTROPHORESIS, AND HEMATOLOGIC ANALYTES OF BLACK-HEADED IBIS (THRESKIORNIS MELANOCEPHALUS)," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 51(4), 948-957, (12 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.1638/2020-0030
Accepted: 3 September 2020; Published: 12 January 2021
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