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ArticleJournal of veterinary internal medicine2019

Plasma citrulline, arginine, nitric oxide, and blood ammonia levels in neonatal calves with acute diarrhea.

Mehmet Gultekin, Huseyin Voyvoda, Kerem Ural, Hasan Erdogan, Canberk Balikci, Gamze Gultekin

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Article in Journal of veterinary internal medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mehmet GultekinDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Adnan Menderes, Aydin, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5197-2403
Huseyin VoyvodaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Adnan Menderes, Aydin, Turkey.
Kerem UralDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Adnan Menderes, Aydin, Turkey.
Hasan ErdoganDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Adnan Menderes, Aydin, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5141-5108
Canberk BalikciDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Adnan Menderes, Aydin, Turkey.
Gamze GultekinDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Adnan Menderes, Aydin, Turkey.
Adnan Menderes University · TR

Funding

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey 116O014
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPlasma citrulline (CIT) concentration is considered to be a reliable marker of functional enterocyte mass, primarily in humans. However, information about CIT levels along with related metabolites, arginine (ARG), nitric oxide (NO), and ammonia in neonatal calves are lacking.

objectivesTo compare plasma CIT, ARG, NO, and whole blood ammonia concentrations in neonatal calves with acute diarrhea with those in healthy calves and to assess their possible relationships with diarrhea-related criteria. ANIMALS: Seventy neonatal calves (60 with acute diarrhea and 10 healthy).

methodsObservational case-control study. Diarrheic calves were classified into subgroups on the basis of etiology, severity of diarrhea, degree of dehydration, and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) status. Plasma CIT and ARG concentrations were measured by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry.

resultsPlasma CIT (median [range]: 67.5 [61.9-75.4] vs 30.1 [15.0-56.1] μmol/L) and ARG (170.7 [148.5-219.5] vs 106.1 [54.4-190.7] μmol/L) were lower and plasma NO (4.42 [3.29-5.58] vs 6.78 [5.29-8.92] μM) and blood ammonia concentrations (28.7 [26.1-36.9] vs 59.8 [34.6-99.5] μmol/L) were higher in the neonatal calves with diarrhea (P < .001). Plasma CIT (β = -0.29, P = .02), ARG (β = -0.33, P = .01), NO (β = 0.55, P < .001), and blood ammonia (β = 0.63, P <.001) were affected by SIRS status. Except for ammonia (0.52), the effects sizes for severity of diarrhea and degree of dehydration were small (ηp2 ≤ 0.45) for CIT, ARG, and NO. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: The changes in these variables might have diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic value in diarrheic neonatal calves.

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AmmoniaAnimalsAnimals, NewbornArginineCase-Control StudiesCattleCattle DiseasesCitrullineDehydrationDiarrheaNitric OxideSystemic Inflammatory Response SyndromeAmmoniaArginineCitrullineNitric Oxideamino acidsdehydrationetiologyinfectious diseasessystemic inflammatory responseurea cycle

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