The main purpose in performing the detailed experimental studies in Part I is the application of the photometric method to the determination of the gamma globulin content of human sera. These experimental studies show that protein fractions such as albumin or alpha globulins, whose electrophoretic mobilities are far removed from gamma globulin, cause little interference with its determination. ...

coccidiosis is one of the most important disease in poultry. since using of anti-coccidial drugs or vaccination are considered as the most common preventive measures of this disease, an experiment was conducted to compare effectiveness of these methods. nine hundred and sixty day-old male ross broiler chicks were randomly assigned to eight treatments and fed with a corn-soybean meal basal diet ...

Scoping studies were designed whereby double-crested cormorants (Phalacocorax auritus) were dosed with artificially weathered Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil either daily through oil injected feeder fish, or by application of oil directly to feathers every three days. Preening results in oil ingestion, and may be an effective means of orally dosing birds with toxicant to improve our understanding o...

We measured concentrations of thyroxine, triiodothyronine, reverse triiodothyronine, thyroxine-binding globulin, and thyrotropin in pooled samples of cord sera from normal newborns. Sera collected in winter contain significantly (p less than 0.05) higher concentrations of the first tour--14.9, 13.4, 9k9, and 7.5%, respectively--than do sera collected in summer; thyrotropin concentrations are si...

This doctoral thesis is based on seven previously published papers and reports on the role of the actin-scavenger Gc-globulin in acute and chronic liver diseases. Gc-globulin is synthesized in the liver and is a multifunctional protein; however, its main physiologic function is presumably actin binding and actin scavenging. Actin is a major cellular protein released during cell necrosis that ma...

It has been proposed that inflammation or infection may contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes. We examined whether serum gamma globulin, a nonspecific measure of the humoral immune system, predicted changes in glucose tolerance in 2,530 members of the Pima Indian population, a group with a marked predisposition to type 2 diabetes. Cross-sectionally, gamma globulin was positively rela...

Serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) is the most used and reliable method to determine percentage of serum subfractions. The interpretation kinetics total proteins albumin globulin fractions receiving increased attention in wild animals, as well domestic due possibility identifying typical pathologic patterns. However, these data had be performed light an appropriate method—and species- specific...

BACKGROUND Retired racing Greyhounds are becoming common as pets. Because of their unique physiology, results of routine laboratory tests are frequently outside the reference interval for dogs. Compared with other breeds, Greyhounds have low serum protein concentrations, but the concentrations of different serum protein fractions have not been reported. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to evalu...