Haematological and serum biochemical profiles of buffalo heifers as influenced by levamisole

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 147-150

  Zia ur Rahman, A ^a   Sandhu, M A ^a   Ahmad, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Buffalo; Haematology; Levamisole; Serum biochemistry

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; GLOBULIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LEVAMISOLE; PROTEIN; UREA;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BUFFALO; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0346957179     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-003-0490-2     Document Type: Article

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