Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVII, Issue 2
Written by Carmen IONITA, Roxana Mariana IGNATESCU, Valerica DANACU, Lucian IONITA
For the diagnosis of diseases in cattle, apart from the clinical examination of the animal, the veterinarian also needs some practical, fast, cheap and, above all, available tools. The importance of this study lies in reducing the number of known paraclinical examinations that are often difficult to manage during a rural or farm field trip and are also expensive. Because clinical signs are often nonspecific, the general clinical examination of clinically healthy cows can only lead to a suspicion of disease without a necessary tool for confirmation or discovery of an insidious pathological process. For this reason, serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) is an important component of laboratory diagnostic evaluations for the measurement of serum proteins. In our study we used 8 clinically healthy cows of which 4 lactating cows and 4 weaned cows. Although there have been fluctuations in the value of various protein fractions and low specificities have been achieved in the diagnosis of certain diseases, the determination of the serum protein profile in ruminants and the correct interpretation of their results are very useful for clinicians in the clinical diagnosis of healthy and diseased animals and can serve as basis for other specific laboratory examinations, going up to protein fractions.
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