Anderson Eric T, Minter Larry J, Clarke Elsburgh O, Mroch Raymond M, Beasley Jean F, Harms Craig A
Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA.
Vet Med Int. 2011;2011:890829. doi: 10.4061/2011/890829. Epub 2011 Jun 21.
In mammals, lipemic blood from sampling too soon after an animal feeds can have substantial effects on biochemical values. Plasma biochemical values in reptiles may be affected by species, age, season, and nutritional state. However, fasting status is not routinely considered when sampling reptile blood. In this paper, we evaluated 2-hour postprandial blood collection in two sea turtle species to investigate the effects of feeding on hematological and plasma biochemical values. Feeding had no significant effects on hematological values in either species, nor did it have an effect on plasma biochemistry values in Kemp's ridley sea turtles. In postprandial green turtles, total protein, albumin, ALP, AST, ALT, amylase, and cholesterol increased significantly, and chloride decreased significantly. Although statistically significant changes were observed, the median percent differences between pre- and postprandial values did not exceed 10% for any of these analytes and would not likely alter the clinical interpretation.
在哺乳动物中，动物进食后过早采样得到的脂血会对生化值产生重大影响。爬行动物的血浆生化值可能受物种、年龄、季节和营养状况的影响。然而，采集爬行动物血液时通常不考虑禁食状态。在本文中，我们评估了两种海龟在进食后2小时采血的情况，以研究进食对血液学和血浆生化值的影响。进食对两种海龟的血液学值均无显著影响，对肯氏丽龟的血浆生化值也无影响。在进食后的绿海龟中，总蛋白、白蛋白、碱性磷酸酶、天冬氨酸转氨酶、丙氨酸转氨酶、淀粉酶和胆固醇显著升高，氯化物显著降低。虽然观察到有统计学意义的变化，但这些分析物的餐前和餐后值之间的中位数百分比差异均未超过10%，不太可能改变临床解读。
