Date of Award:
5-1972
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences
Department name when degree awarded
Toxicology
Committee Chair(s)
Joseph T. Blake
Committee
Joseph T. Blake
Committee
Thomas Bahler
Committee
James Gessaman
Committee
James Shupe
Committee
Donald Sisson
Abstract
Twenty four cattle, six each of healthy cows and calves, and cows and calves with brisket disease, were obtained, examined and slaughtered. The concentrations of calcium, chloride, cobalt, copper, iron, magnesium, molybdenum, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and zinc; and percent absolute dry matter and percent ash were determined in tissues selected from the following: cardiac, hepatic, renal, osseous, whole blood and blood serum. In addition, certain physical and biological parameters were recorded for each animal. The results were analyzed as a 2 x 2 factorial, segregating the effects of age and brisket disease, and the age-disease interaction.
The following statistically significant (P
The effects of brisket disease are superimposed upon these marked differences in the cattle in the present study as compared to those in a previous study of well nourished cattle of similar breeding from a similar environment: reduced cardiac, hepatic, serum and osseous calcium; reduced hepatic, osseous and serum magnesium and increased renal magnesium; reduced hepatic phoshporus and increased renal phosphorus; reduced hepatic, serum and osseous potassium and increased cardiac potassium; and reduced cardiac, osseous and serum sodium and zinc.
The effects of age must be evaluated in view of the fact that half of the animals were diseased; moreover, some age effects occurred almost exclusively in the diseased animals. Statistically significant (P
The interaction of increased age and brisket disease produced the following statistically significant (P
Hypotheses regarding possible reasons for these results are formulated and discussed.
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Recommended Citation
Field, Patricia H., "Tissue Mineral Imbalances in Cattle with Brisket Disease" (1972). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 4586.
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