Comparison of serum protein-bound carbohydrate and glycoprotein patterns of man, monkey and rat.

Baseline concentrations of serum protein-bound carbohydrates and glycoprotein patterns of man, rhesus monkey and albino rat were compared. In all cases patterns of monkey resembled man more closely than did rat. Based on these data it is concluded that the rhesus monkey can serve as a relatively more accurate model than the albino rat to study alterations in concentrations of serum glycoproteins that occur during various infectious and inflammatory processes in man.