| Clinical blood chemistry analysis in chickens infected with reticuloendotheliosis virus |
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Haan-Woo Sung1, Hyuk-Moo Kwon1, Sun-Jung Kim2 |
1School of Veterinary Medicine, Kangwon National University
2Biopoa |
| 세망내피증 바이러스 감염 닭에서의 혈액화학치 변화 |
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성환우1, 권혁무1, 김선중2 |
1강원대학교 수의학과
2바이오포아 |
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| Abstract |
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Body weights and blood biochemical values in chickens infected with reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV)-HI, a Korean isolate, were studied. REV-HI causes severe body weight depression in chickens inoculated but not in chicken contact-infected. Body weights of infected chickens in 3, 4, and 5 weeks after infection were 78%, 76% and 65% of those of control respectively. Blood glucose levels in REVinfected chickens were extremely high compared with those in control (226 $geq$ 21 vs. 814 $geq$91.3 mg/dl in week 2) during the experiment period. Triglyceride levels in REV-infected chickens were significantly higher in week 2 and 3, whereas in week 4, REV-infected chickens showed significantly lower levels than the control. Blood lipase, amylase and alkaline phosphatase levels of REV-infected chickens in week 2 were significantly higher, whereas cholesterol, magnesium and calcium values in week 4 were significantly lower than the control. Other blood biochemical values such as alkaline aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, and $gamma$-glutamyltransferase were nonsignificantly different from the control. These above results suggest that weight depression by REV may be related with increase of blood glucose, which indicated that REV-infected chickens could not use blood glucose as energy source. |
| Key Words:
blood chemistry, glucose, reticuloendotheliosis virus, weight depression |
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