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ArticleJournal of veterinary internal medicine2020

Steroid precursors, steroids, neuroactive steroids, and neurosteroids concentrations in serum and saliva of healthy neonatal heifer Holstein calves.

Monica Aleman, Munashe Chigerwe, Anita Varga, John E Madigan

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Article in Journal of veterinary internal medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Monica AlemanDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5811-9520
Munashe ChigerweDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6841-2448
Anita VargaDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
John E MadiganDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

Gifts from anonymous donors towards the Equine and Comparative Neurology Research Group
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPersistence of high neurosteroid concentrations in blood is associated with neonatal encephalopathy and septicemia in foals. This has not been investigated in calves.

objectivesTo determine concentrations of steroid compounds in serum and saliva within the first 48 hours after birth in healthy neonatal calves, identify potential markers for disease, and investigate the association between serum steroid compounds concentrations in calves and their respective dams within 2 hours after birth. ANIMALS: Twelve healthy neonatal heifer Holstein calves and their dams.

methodsProspective study. Serum and saliva were collected from calves at 2, 6, 24, and 48 hours after birth. Steroid compounds were analyzed using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. A nonlinear regression model was used to determine half-lives of the neurosteroids. Serum concentrations of neurosteroids between the cows and calves were compared using the Wilcoxon signed rank test.

resultsHalf-lives (95% confidence intervals) of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and 17α,20α-dihydroxyprogesterone in calf serum were 2.9 (2.1, 4.3), and 2.1 (1.3, 3.0) hours, respectively. Pregnanediol in saliva had a half-life (95% confidence interval) of 24.5 (14.2, 66.5) hours. Serum DHEA (1718.7 ± 2313 vs 57.7 ± 44) and 17α,20α-dihydroxyprogesterone (207.8 ± 198.2 vs 43.5 ± 33.5) concentrations respectively were higher (P < .05) in calves compared to cows. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: Dehydroepiandrosterone, 17α,20α-dihydroxyprogesterone, and pregnanediol could be potential markers of disease in neonatal heifer calves with unexplained failure to thrive or encephalopathy. However, because of the wide 95% confidence interval of the half-life, pregnanediol in saliva might not be a potential marker.

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Animals, NewbornCattleNeurosteroidsSalivaSteroidsAnimalsFemaleProspective StudiesNeurosteroidsSteroidsbraincattleconsciousnessencephalopathyneurosteroids

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