BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In following patients initially recruited for a cross-sectional study of blood viscosity in ischemic cerebrovascular disease, it was noted that those having a low albumin-globulin ratio appeared to experience the majority of subsequent vascular events. Accordingly, a prospective study in which subjects were assigned to a high or low albumin-globulin cohort was undertaken ...

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the serum protein electrophoresis pattern in dogs infected with B. canis, and correlation between haematocrit and albumin/globulin ratio. The infection with B. canis was confirmed by PCR and sequencing of PCR products. Total serum protein concentrations were determined by a clinical chemistry analyser. Albumin, α1-, α2-, β1-, β2-, and γ-globulin con...

1. We have correlated measurements of colloid osmotic pressure with protein concentrations and albumin/globulin ratios. Plasma from normal rats of different genetic strains was used. 2. The Landis and Pappenheimer equation does not accurately predict colloid osmotic pressure properties of the normal rat plasma used, which had an albumin/globulin ratio of 0.74. Over the range 2-2-12-2 g of prote...

THE SEPARATION of albumin from its associated globulins in serum or plasma has exercised physiologists and biochemists for many years. Several methods are available for assessing the albumin content of serum by prior precipitation of globulins (1-9). In 1949 Martin and Morris (10) examined a series of methods (1, 2, 5-7) and concluded, by comparison with the results of “free” electrophoresis, t...

In 1885-6 Kauder observed that globulin was precipitated from serum when the concentration of ammonium sulphate reached 24 to 29 per cent of full saturation and that its precipitation was complete when the concentration reached 36 to 46 per cent of complete saturation. Thereafter no further precipitation took place until the concentration reached 64 per cent of full saturation, when albu-min st...

Serum electrophoresis was done in 31 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 62 age and sex matched controls. Protein values amongst controls were higher than those described by others. In tuberculosis there was significant decrease in total proteins, and albumin with corresponding increase in globulin, mainly due to an increase in gamma globulin fraction. There was no significant increase in ...

OBJECTIVE Purpose was to determine the effects of grazing system and floor type on concentrations of blood metabolites, activity of creatine kinase, body weight and carcass characteristics of castrated Nguni goats. METHODS Forty eight, 7 month old goats were randomly allocated to herding and tethering treatments from 0800 to 1300 hours and accommodated on slatted and earth floors daily. Blood...