Contributions to the study of blood constituents in domestic animals in South Africa. 2. Normal values for the activity of some enzymes of the Embden-Meyerhof pathway and tricarboxylic acid cycle occurring in the plasma of sheep.

Abstract

Normal values have been established for the levels of activity of lactic dehydrogenase, isocitric dehydrogenase, glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, aldolase and phospho-hexose isomerase in the plasma of sheep emanating from areas in which geeldikkop and enzootic icterus are prevalent and those raised in areas where the diseases do not normally occur. Some marked differences between the two groups are apparent which support recent contentions regarding the aetiology of the two syndromes mentioned.