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Blood Serum and Synovial Fluid in Bovine Laminitis and Arthritis, with Particular Reference to the Protein Composition

Blodserum och ledvätska vid fång och artriler hos nötkreatur med särskild hänsyn till förändringar i proteinbilden

Abstract

In 74 cases of clinical laminitis and in 10 cases of clinical discrete arthritis in adult cattle, the protein picture was changed in blood and synovial fluid. The cases of laminitis were clinically divided into one group without and another with general affection. The changes in serum γ- and α-globulins indicated a predominantly chronic inflammatory process in the arthritis groups and a more acute process in the laminitis groups. In discrete arthritis, the leukocyte concentration and all protein levels except the relative albumin concentration were increased. In laminitis without general affection no significant changes were found in synovial fluid, while the synovial protein pattern in laminitis with general affection indicated a simultaneous occurrence of arthritis. The combination of laminitis and arthritis might be an expression of different inflammatory reactions to common aetiological, still unidentified factors, indicating the existence of a disease complex which may manifest itself in hoof corium, in joints or in both.

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Hos 84 vuxna nötkreatur med de kliniska diagnoserna fång (74 fall) och fristende artrit (10 fall) pvisades förändringar dels i blodproteinbilden, deis i proteinbild och leukocytkoncentration i ledvätska. Fngfallen grupperades i sdana utan respektive med allmänpåverkan. Totalglobulinet var förhöjt och albuminet sänkt i blodserum i alla sjukdomsgrupperna. Totalglobulinökningen orsakades i första hand av förhöjt γ-globulin i alla grupperna. α-globulinökningar förekom endest i fnggrupperna. Vid fristende artrit var den relativa albuminkoncentrationen och A:G-kvoten sänkta i ledvätskan, medan övriga proteiner och leukocytkoncentrationen var förhöjda. Vid fång utan allmänpåverkan förelåg inga väsentliga förändringar i ledvätska frn kotleden. Vid fång med allmänpaverkan var total-protein-, totalglobulin-, absoluta γ-globulin- och leukocytkoncentrationerna förhöjda. Dessa förändringar talar för samtidig förekomst av artrit i denna grupp. Kombinationen av fång och artrit skulle kunna vara uttryck för olika reaktioner p en gemensam etiologi och indikera förekomsten av ett sjukdomskomplex, som manifesterar sig i klövläderhud, i leder eller i bdadera.

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This investigation was supported by the Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research.

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Andersson, L., Liberg, P. Blood Serum and Synovial Fluid in Bovine Laminitis and Arthritis, with Particular Reference to the Protein Composition. Acta Vet Scand 21, 567–577 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03546844

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