Reliability of the glutaraldehyde test to measure gammaglobulin levels in foals;Een onderzoek naar de betrouwbaarheid van de glutaaraldehydetest voor de bepaling van het gammaglobulinegehalte in het serum van veulens en naar de bruikbaarheid van deze test in de praktijk bij het controleren van de colostrumopname bij veulens

Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 240-246

  De Bruijn, C M ^a   Wensing, Th ^b   Van Nieuwstadt, R A ^a  

^a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PLASMA PROTEIN; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERUM; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; COLOSTRUM; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUCKLING;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; BLOOD PROTEINS; COLOSTRUM; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; GLUTARAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038381601     PISSN: 00407453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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