Comparative haematology of two breeds of dog: Labrador retriever and German shepherd
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Comparative haematology of two breeds of dog: Labrador retriever and German shepherd Debasish Mohapatra 1
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& Prafulla Kumar Mohanty & Sujata Puspamitra & Ananya Bhattacherjee & Sarbeswar Nayak
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Received: 24 May 2020 / Accepted: 21 October 2020 # Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The study focuses on two breeds of dog namely Labrador retriever and German shepherd to investigate the different haematological parameters. Blood samples were collected from these two breeds of dog, and haematological parameters such as haemoglobin (Hb), total erythrocyte count (TEC), total leukocyte count (TLC), packed cell volume (PCV), mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH) were investigated. Though literatures on haematological profiling of dogs are in record, a comparative study between two breeds namely Labrador retriever and German has not been explained adequately. So, this study was undertaken to establish a comparative analysis of haematological parameters of two breeds of dog. Sex-wise variations in the haematological values as well as a significant correlation between different parameters have been reported in these two breeds of dog. Keywords Haematology . Labrador retriever . German shepherd . PCV . MCV . MCH
Introduction Dogs belong to the class Mammalia under the family Canidae and order Carnivora. Haematology is one of the important aspects of animals to evaluate and assess the status of the health in animals (Archer and Jeffcott 1977). It refers to the number and morphology of the cellular elements of the blood, i.e. the red blood cells, the white blood cells and the platelets, which are helpful in diagnosis and monitoring of the animals (Jain 1986; Jackson and Carter 1993; Moreno and Menke 2002) * Prafulla Kumar Mohanty [email protected] Debasish Mohapatra [email protected] Sujata Puspamitra [email protected] Ananya Bhattacherjee [email protected] Sarbeswar Nayak [email protected] 1
Postgraduate Department of Zoology, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751 004, India
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Department of Zoology, Vikram Deb Autonomous College, Jeypore, Koraput, Odisha 764 001, India
Haematological studies are useful in the diagnosis of many diseases as well as the investigation of the extent of damage to blood (Coles 1980; Luskova et al. 2002; Cnaani et al. 2004; Prins et al. 2009). Haematological studies are of ecological and physiological interest in helping to understand the relationship of blood characteristics to the environment (Mcinroy 1953; Stokol and Erb 2007; Campbell 2015) and so could be useful in the selection of the animals that are genetically resistant to certain diseases and environmental condition (Soetan 1994). Haematological parameters are convenient indicators of the physiological status of the animals (Afolabi et al. 2010; Bunn 2011; Esievo 2017). Blood acts as a pathological reflector of the status of the exposed animals to the toxicants and the other conditions
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