The accuracy of the Precision Xceed® hand-held meter as an on-site method for measuring blood β-hydroxybutyric acid (BHBA) and glucose concentrations, for the diagnosis of pregnancy toxemia and ketosis in dry and lactating dairy sheep, was assessed. Five to eight hours after the start of the morning feed, blood was collected once from 193 clinically healthy sheep (143 dry and 50 lactating). BHB...

AIM This study was planned to reveal the clinical signs and biochemical alterations in pregnancy toxemic goats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Blood samples were collected from 20 healthy pregnant and 45 pregnancy toxemic goats and analyzed biochemically. RESULTS The most significant clinical findings were observed in naturally affected goats with pregnancy toxemia included anorexia, recumbency, let...

An immunofluorescent study of renal biopsies from patients with toxemia of pregnancy has been performed. It was found that the glomeruli consistently showed bright staining for fibrin within endothelial cells, as well as occasional deposits along the basement membrane. Gamma globulin was only occasionally demonstrable, generally in the form of irregular deposits along the basement membrane. bet...

The effect of pregnancy on the renal function of patients with essential hypertension or chronic glomerulonephritis has been the object of the investigation to be reported here. The study has involved the application of renal clearance methods to a group of patients, during their pregnancies and repeatedly during the 1 to 4 years after their delivery. In 3 patients, the series of records includ...

The effect of pregnancy on the renal function of patients with essential hypertension or chronic glomerulonephritis has been the object of the investigation to be reported here. The study has involved the application of renal clearance methods to a group of patients, during their pregnancies and repeatedly during the 1 to 4 years after their delivery. In 3 patients, the series of records includ...

A method is described for the quantitative extraction of posterior pituitary antidiuretic substance from blood with which it has been mixed in vitro and in vivo for experimental purposes. With this procedure, it is found that a similarly extractable active substance may be detected as a normal constituent of dog and human blood. The data obtained from the blood of normal pregnancies and several...

For the etiological study of pregnancy toxemia along our line, Kanno et al.1) and Kanno2) extracted the components from placentas, once de hydrated with alcohol, by boiling with water. However, their preliminary treatment of placentas and manner of extraction both do not appear ap propriate to obtain the substances for the aim of biological examination, because the natural highly-associated sta...