Activity of alkaline phosphatase in male lamb blood serum in relation to age and growth rate

Author(s):  
Y. Zharikov ◽  
L. Kaneva

Purpose: to assess the correlation of serum alkaline phosphatase with the live weight and growth rate of male lambs during the milk and post-milk growing periods.Materials and methods. The study of indicators of serum alkaline phosphatase activity in 74 male lambs aged one and five months was carried out in connection with the intensity of growth and the peculiarities of metabolism. All the male lambs were born at the same time and were raised for up to six months under similar feeding and maintenance conditions. To study the dynamics of changes in the live weight of young animals, individual weighing was carried out monthly with an accuracy of 0.1 kg. Based on the results of weighing, the absolute, relative, and average daily live weight gains were calculated and the animals were divided into three groups. The analysis of the serum for the content of the studied parameters was performed by photometry with the help of the corresponding sets of reagents of the company «VitalDiagnostics SPb».Results. During the observation period, the average increase in live weight of male lambs was 21,14 kg, or 136,75 g per day. At one month of age, the activity of alkaline phosphatase was 188,61±9.50 U/l, and at five months — 100,01±3,58, or 47% (P<0,001) lower. It was found that the activity of the enzyme during the suckling period was positively associated with live weight and growth intensity (r=0,35 and 0,49), and after weaning from mothers — negatively (r = -0,46 and -0,46, respectively). The activity of alkaline phosphatase was consistently increased in monthly male lamb when they moved from a group with lower productivity to a larger one — 160,5 — 191,4 — 214,9, and in five-month-olds, on the contrary, decreased — 121,0 — 98,1 — 80,2 E/l. At the age of one month, the increase in growth intensity was accompanied by an increase in the blood serum of male lamb values of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase, glucose, calcium and phosphorus, and a decrease in urea and cholesterol levels. At the age of five months, both the list of links and their vector changed. In the serum of fast-growing animals, the de Ritis coefficient and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase were higher, but the activity of lactate dehydrogenase and creatine phosphokinase was lower.Conclusion. The presence of a correlation between alkaline phosphatase and growth makes it possible to use alkaline phosphatase in zootechnical practice and breeding work as an additional criterion for the growth potential of male lambs up to six months in the early stages of ontogenesis. However, the change in the nature of the relationship from plus to minus implies a differentiated approach in the use of this indicator, taking into account the age of the male lambs.

Author(s):  
R. Milushev ◽  
V. Epifanov

Simmental breed of cattle combines dairy and beef productivity. The crossbreeding cows of Simmental breed with Red-and-White Holstein breed of cattle was supposed to obtain animals with high milk productivity, good adaptability to the industrial technology of milk productivity. Red-and-White breed of cows has been bred in Russia as a result of this crossbreeding. It is a relatively young breed of dairy productivity in our country. In order to evaluate the effect of crossbreeding and study the adaptive capabilities obtained by animals, the synthesis of alkaline phosphatase by its activity in blood serum has been studied. The level of activity of the enzyme reflected the intensity and direction of biochemical processes in animals, affecting the state of homeostasis in purebred (Simmental) and crossbred (F1 Simmental×Red-and-White Holstein) heifers and first-calf heifers. It has been found that activity of serum alkaline phosphatase has decreased with age in both purebred and crossbred animals. Crossbreds F1 surpassed purebred heifers in enzyme activity at 1 and 10 months of age, this difference was significant. The activity of the enzyme in first-calf heifers was different from that in the blood of growing heifers, they had it lower. A close and significant correlation has been found between the live weight of growing crossbred heifers and the activity of alkaline phosphatase in the blood serum at 2-, 6- and 12-month age. Crossbred first-calf heifers were significantly higher in milk yield for 90 days of lactation than their Simmental herdmates. The set of data on the activity of alkaline phosphatase in the blood of heifers and lactating cows is of both theoretical and practical value for zootechnical and biological sciences, revealing the regularities of the heterosis effect, deepening knowledge about the age-related biochemistry of crossbred animals and the formation of productive traits.


2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Foreman ◽  
David A. Blizard ◽  
Glenn Gerhard ◽  
Holly A. Mack ◽  
Dean H. Lang ◽  
...  

Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses were conducted to identify chromosomal regions that contribute to variability in serum alkaline phosphatase (AP) enzyme activity in mice derived from the C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (D2) inbred strains. Serum AP was measured in 400 B6D2 F2 mice at 5 mo and 400 B6D2 F2 mice at 15 mo of age that were genotyped at 96 microsatellite markers, and in 19 BXD recombinant inbred (RI) strains at 5 mo of age. A QTL on the distal end of chromosome 4 was present in all sex- and age-specific analyses with a peak logarithm of odds (LOD) score of 20.36 at 58.51 cM. The Akp2 gene, which encodes the major serum AP isozyme, falls within this QTL region at 70.2 cM where the LOD score reached 13.2 (LOD significance level set at 4.3). Serum AP activity was directly related to the number of D2 alleles of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the 5′-flanking region of the Akp2 gene, although no strain-related differences in hepatic expression of Akp2 RNA were found. A variety of sequence polymorphisms in this chromosomal region could be responsible for the differences in serum AP activity; the Akp2 gene, however, with several known amino acid substitutions between protein sequences of the B6 and D2 strains, is a leading candidate.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl J. Crosley ◽  
Claire Chee ◽  
Peter H. Berman

Over a 12-month period, an ambulatory pediatric population receiving long-term anticonvulsants was surveyed for the presence of biochemical and radiologic rickets. There were 74 treated children and 95 matched controls. Elevations of serum alkaline phosphatase activity occurred in 31 of the 74 (42%) treated children (23 of 47 children between 2 and 10 years and 8 of 21 children between 10 and 16 years). This frequency of abnormal values was significantly greater than that which occurred in our control population. Calcium and phosphorus abnormalities were minimal in both treated and control populations. Radiologic rickets occurred in 6 of the 74 (8%) of the treated children and in none of the control population. Neither the severity of the rickets nor the degree of hyperalkaline phosphatasemia were correlated with age of the patient, duration, and/or dose of anticonvulsant therapy.


1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
G A Fleisher ◽  
E S Eickelberg ◽  
L R Elveback

Abstract We determined plasma (serum alkaline phosphatase activity in 854 healthy students of the Rochester, Minnesota, public schools. Prepubertal girls had somewhat greater upper limits than did boys, and there was a low trend of increasing activity in both sexes. At the beginning of adolescence increasing activities were observed, which peaked at ages 11 to 12 years in girls and at ages 13 to 14 in boys. Adult values were not reached until six to eight years later. In 180 pairs of siblings, a significant intraclass correlation was noted. A possible role of alkaline phosphatase in the regulation of protein synthesis is suggested.


1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gifford Lum ◽  
S Raymond Gambino

Abstract Serum γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), leucine aminopeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase, and aspartate aminotransferase activities were assayed in controls and in patients with liver, pancreatic, or bone disease. GGT activity was above normal in all forms of liver disease studied (viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholecystitis, metastatic carcinoma to liver, pancreatic carcinoma, liver granuloma, and acute pancreatitis). GGT more sensitively indicated hepatic disease than did alkaline phosphatase, much more so than did leucine aminopeptidase. GGT was disproportionately more active in relation to the transaminases in cases of intraor extrahepatic biliary obstruction; the reverse was true in cases of viral hepatitis. GGT activity was normal in children, adolescents, and pregnant women, and in cases of bone disease and renal failure. Kinetic measurement of GGT activity offers a simple, sensitive, and direct means for distinguishing whether bone or liver is the source of increased serum alkaline phosphatase activity. Activity was highest in obstructive liver disease.


1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
George N Bowers ◽  
Robert B McComb

Abstract A continuous spectrophotometric method for measuring serum alkaline phosphatase activity is described. The effects of temperature, pH, substrate concentration, type and molarity of the buffer, sample size, cofactors, and inhibitors on the enzymatic hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl phosphate were studied. The optimal conditions for assay of serum alkaline phosphatase at 30° were found to be 0.75 M 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol buffer, pH30° 10.15, 4 mmole substrate, and 100 µl. or less sample size. Studies of the factors affecting analytical precision-i.e., control of reaction temperature, of reagent manufacture, and of standardization-are discussed. The precision of this method was 2.3% (relative standard deviation) on 10 within day replicates and 5.0% on day-to-day replicates spread over a 5-week period. The range of activity for 258 apparently healthy adult blood donors was 6-110 mU./ml. (International milliunits per milliliter), with a mean of 49 and a standard deviation of 14.


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