Evaluation of lysozyme and lactoferrin in lacrimal and other ocular glands of bison and cattle and in tears of bison

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 104-108

  Pinard, Chantale L ^a   Weiss, Mark L ^a   Brightman, Alan H ^a   Fenwick, Bradley W ^a   Davidson, Harriet J ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; LACTOFERRIN; LYSOZYME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVALUATION; EXOCRINE GLAND; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLAND OF THE THIRD EYELID; HARDER GLAND; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATITIS; LACRIMAL FLUID; LACRIMAL GLAND; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BISON; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATTLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; HARDERIAN GLAND; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; LACTOFERRIN; MALE; MURAMIDASE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TEARS;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS;

EID: 0037250852     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2003.64.104     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Barner RD. A study of Moraxella bovis and its relation to bovine keratitis. Am J Vet Res 1952;13:132-144.
2. Slatter DH, Edwards M. A national survey of the clinical feature treatment and importance of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis. Aust Vet J 1982;59:69-72.
3. Simms A, Langemuir, Udder S, et al. Results of a production analysis survey of cow herds in Kansas. Cattleman's Report, 1993.
4. Bron AJ, Seal DV. The defenses of the ocular surface. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 1986;105:18-25.
5. Van Haeringen NJ. Clinical biochemistry of tears. Surv Ophthamol 1981;26:84-96.
6. Aurora AK, Tripathy DN, Killinger AH, et al. Characterization and appearance of immunoglobulins in bovine lacrimal secretions. Microbiology 1980;3:123-130.
7. 1 in various tissues and body fluids of the cow. J Immunol 1972;109:38-46.
8. Pedersen KB, Nansen P. Immunoglobulins in bovine lachrymal fluid. Acta Pathol Microbiol Scand [B] 1972;80:231-240.
9. Brown MH, Brightman AH, Fenwick BW, et al. Identification of lactoferrin in bovine tears. Am J Vet Res 1996;57:1369-1372.
10. Gionfriddo JR, Davidson H, Asem EK, et al. Detection of lysozyme in llama, sheep and cattle tears. Am J Vet Res 2000;61:1294-1297.
11. Gionfriddo JR, Melgarejo T, Morrison EA, et al. Comparison of tear proteins of llamas and cattle. Am J Vet Res 2000;61:1289-1293.
12. Prieur DJ. Tissue specific deficiency of lysozyme in ruminants. Comp Biochem Physiol 1986;85B:349-353.
13. Selinger DS, Selinger RC, Reed WP. Resistance to infection of the external eye: the role of tears. Surv Ophthalmol 1979;24:33-38.
14. Broekhuyse RM. Tear lactoferrin: a bacteriostatic and complexing protein. Invest Ophthalmol 1974;13:550-554.
15. Masson PL, Heremans JF. An iron-binding protein common to many external secretions. Clin Chim Acta 1966;14:735-737.
16. Boonstra A, Kiljlstra A. Guinea pig tears contain lactoferrin and transferrin. Curr Eye Res 1987;6:1115-1123.
17. Inoue M, Yamada J, Kitamura N, et al. Immumohistochemical localization of lactoferrin in bovine exocrine glands. Tissue Cell 1993;25:791-797.
18. Fenwick B, Rider M, Liang J, et al. Iron repressible outer membrane proteins of Moraxella bovis and demonstration of siderophore-like activity. Vet Microbiol 1996;48:315-324.
19. Phillips DC. The three-dimensional structure of an enzyme molecule. Sci Am 1966;215:78-90.
20. Sherman MD, Cevallos V, Gabriel R, et al. Measurement of human tear lysozyme using a novel synthetic substrate. In: Sullivan DA, ed. Lacrimal gland, tear film and dry eye syndromes. New York: Plenum Press, 1994;363-365.
21. Repaske R. Lysis of gram-negative bacteria by lysozyme. Biochim Biophys Acta 1956;22:189-191.
22. Ford LC, Delange RJ, Petty RW. Identification of a nonlysozomal bactericidal factor (beta lysin) in human tears and aqueous humor. Am J Ophthalmol 1976;81:30-33.
23. Gillette TE, Allansmith MR. Lactoferrin in human ocular tissues. Am J Ophthalmol 1980;90:30-37.
24. Gillette TE, Greiner JV, Allansmith MR. Immunohistochemical localization of human tear lysozyme. Arch Ophthamol 1981;99:298-300.
25. Vigneswaran N, Wilk CM, Heese A, et al. Immunohistochemical characterization of epithelial cells in human lacrimal glands. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1990;228:58-64.
26. Brightman AH, Wachsstock RS, Erskine R. Lysozyme concentrations in the tears of cattle, goats, and sheep. Am J Vet Res 1991;52:9-11.
27. Marts BS, Bryan GM, Prieur DJ. Schirmer tear test measurement and lysozyme concentration of equine tears. J Equine Med Surg 1977;1:427-430.
28. Roberts SR, Erickson OF. Dog tear secretions and tear proteins. J Small Anim Pract 1962;3:1-5.
29. Bonavida B, Sapse AT, Sercarz EE. Rabbit tear proteins 1. Detection and quantification of lysozyme in nonstimulated tears. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1983;7:435-440.
30. Schagger H, Von Jagow G. Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfatepolyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa. Anal Biochem 1987;166:368-379.
31. SAS user's guide: Statistics, version 5 edition. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc, 1985.
32. Franklin RM, Kenyon KR, Tomasi TB. Immunohistologic studies of human lacrimal gland: localization of immunoglobulins, secretory component and lactoferrin. J Immunol 1973;110: 984-992.
33. Shimazaki K, Kawano N, Yoo YC. Comparison of bovine, sheep and goat milk lactoferrins in their electrophoretic behavior, conformation, immunochemical properties and lectin reactivity. Comp Biochem Physiol 1991;98B:417-422.
34. Suresh P. Lysozyme levels in the lacrimal secretions of cattle and sheep. Indian J Anim Sci 1994;64:146-147.
35. Padgett GA, Hirsh JG. Lysozyme: its absence in tears and leukocytes of cattle. Aust J Exp Biol Med Sci 1967;45:569-570.
36. Ito Y, Yamada H, Nakamura M, et al. The primary structures and properties of non-stomach lysozymes of sheep and cow, and implication for functional divergence of lysozyme. Eur J Biochem 1993;213:649-658.