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The changes in the fibrinogen concentration and coagulation pathways in winter and summer in cattle
oleh: ameneh khoshvaghti
Format: | Article |
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Diterbitkan: | Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2013-08-01 |
Deskripsi
Fibrinogen is an important coagulation factor and a positive acute phase protein and its levels increases in cases of inflammation infection and stress. The present research was done to determine whether the fibrinogen concentration, prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) can be affected by seasonal changes. In this study, the blood of ten apparently healthy cows from around Yasouj city were taken under aseptic conditions and, then the plasma was separated. The fibrinogen concentration, was assayed by sedimentation refractometry method, PT and APTT were measurement by coagolometric method. The statistical analysis indicated that there was significant difference between the mean concentration of fibrinogen in summer and winter (P0.05). It is concluded that seasonal changes can affect the fibrinogen concentration but does no affect PT and APTT significantly.