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Veterinary Archives, Vol. 85 No. 3, 2015.

Original scientific paper

Transient apnoea in sheep: an alternative method for serial urine sample collection.

Alejandro Benech ; Physiology Department, Veterinary Faculty, University of La República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Luis Cal-Pereyra orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-0533-0530 ; Patology Department, Veterinary Faculty, University of La República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Stella Da Silva ; Physiology Department, Veterinary Faculty, University of La República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Jorge Acosta-Dibarrat ; Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Autonomous University of Mexico State, Toluca, Mexico
J. Ramiro González-Montaña orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-3332 ; Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy Veterinary Department, Veterinary Faculty, University of León, León, Spain

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Abstract

Urine samples are necessary in order to carry out many veterinary diagnostic and research protocols. In ovine, these samples are usually obtained through catheterization, but a transitory apnoea could be an easy way to obtain urine samples. This is achieved by preventing air from entering through the nostrils and mouth in sheep, for a short period of time, always less than 1 minute. The results of this transitory apnoea demonstrated that urine characteristics (pH, density and proteinuria) were not different from samples obtained by bladder catheterization. There were no differences in the blood parameters studied (cortisol, glycaemia, total proteins, haematocrit and total and differential leucocyte counts) either, when compared with the control group of catheterized animals, or with the measured values before or after sampling. In conclusion this system could be considered an easy and effective method to obtain urine samples, without causing stress to the sheep and avoiding the alterations to the blood and urinary parameters measured.

Keywords

transient apnoea; urethral catheterization; urine; blood; urinalysis; sheep

Hrčak ID:

141003

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141003

Publication date:

26.6.2015.

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