Apr 17, 2014 - buffalo and bovine calves with respiratory disease. For this purpose .... buffalo and cow calves were performed by using Mann-. Whitney test.
Comp Clin Pathol DOI 10.1007/s00580-014-1933-7
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
A comparative study on selected acute-phase proteins (APPs) and immunoglobulins in buffalo and bovine calves with respiratory disease Mohamed A. Youssef & Sabry A. El-khodery & Mohamed Abdo
Received: 27 May 2013 / Accepted: 17 April 2014 # Springer-Verlag London 2014
Abstract Cytokines play an important role in innate immune response to diseases in bovine calves. The objective of the present study was to assess the comparative changes of selected acute-phase proteins (APPs) and immunoglobulins in buffalo and bovine calves with respiratory disease. For this purpose, a total of 65 calves (28 buffalo and 37 bovine) were studied. Of all, 45 calves (21 buffalo and 24 bovine) were diagnosed to have respiratory disease. In addition, 20 clinically healthy calves (7 buffalo and 13 bovine) were randomly selected as a control group. Clinical and hematological examinations as well as measurement of haptoglobin (Hp), fibrinogen (Fb), IgG, IgA, total protein (TP), albumin, and globulin were carried out. Clinically, in acute respiratory disease, buffalo calves had lower clinical index scores (p
