Dynamics of haematology and blood biochemistry in free-living African whitebacked vulture (Pseudogyps africanus) nestlings

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 495-508

  Van Wyk, Erika ^a   Van Der Bank, Herman ^a   Verdoorn, Gerhard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b ENDANGERED WILDLIFE TRUST   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African whitebacked vulture; Baseline data; Blood biochemistry; Free living; Haematology; Nestlings; Pseudogyps africanus; Reference values

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINESTERASE; CREATININE; GLOBULIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UREA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; RAPTORES;

EID: 0031685196     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10059-4     Document Type: Article

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