Concurrent changes in serum vitamin B12 and methylmalonic acid during cobalt or vitamin B12 supplementation of lambs while suckling and after weaning on properties in the south island of New Zealand considered to be cobalt-deficient

New Zealand Veterinary Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 129-136

  Gruner, T M ^a   Sedcole, J R ^a   Furlong, J M ^a   Grace, N D ^b   Williams, S D ^c   Sinclair, G ^c   Hicks, J D ^c   Sykes, A R ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^c Canterbury Vets Ltd ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cobalt and vitamin B12 supplementation; Serum methylmalonic acid; Serum vitamin B12; Weaned lambs

Indexed keywords

COBALT; CYANOCOBALAMIN; METHYLMALONIC ACID; PERMACO;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LAMB; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVEWEIGHT GAIN; MEASUREMENT; METHYLMALONIC ACIDEMIA; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; RELIABILITY; SERUM; SUCKLING; SUPPLEMENTATION; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; LAMB; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 2942714852     PISSN: 00480169     EISSN: 11760710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2004.36417     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Andrews ED. Cobalt Deficiency in Sheep and Cattle. New Zealand Department of Agriculture Bulletin 180, Wellington, New Zealand, 1972
2. Andrews ED, Stephenson BJ, Anderson JP, Faithful WC. The effect of length of pastures on cobalt-deficiency disease in lambs. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 1, 125–39, 1958
3. Anonymous. Production Animal Chemistry. Diagnostic Report, Labnet Animal Health Laboratory, Invermay, New Zealand, 2002
4. Blaxter KL. Energy Metabolism of Ruminants. Hutchinson, London, UK, 1962
5. Dick AT. Aspiration biopsy of the liver in sheep. Australian Veterinary Journal 20, 298–303, 1944
6. 12 by radioisotope dilution:Description of the method and comparison with microbiological assay results. British Journal of Haematology 27, 507–26, 1974
7. Greenhouse SW, Geisser S. On methods in the analysis of profile data. Psychometrika 24, 95–112, 1959
8. 12 in cobalt-supplemented ewes and their lambs on two cobalt-deficient properties. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 52, 117–28, 2004
9. Joyce JP, Rattray PV. The intake and utilization of grass by lambs. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production 30, 94–105, 1970
10. 12 deficiency on methylmalonyl Co-A mutase in sheep. British Journal of Nutrition 121, 1236–42, 1991
11. Kenward MG. A method for comparing profiles of repeated measurements. Applied Statistics 36, 296–308, 1987
12. McMurray CH, Rice DA, McLoughlin M, Blanchflower WJ. Cobalt deficiency and the potential of using methylmalonic acid as a diagnostic and prognostic indicator. Trace Elements in Man and Animals – TEMA 5. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium. Pp 603–8, 1985
13. McMurray CH, Blanchflower WJ, Rice DA, McLoughlin M. Sensitive and specific gas chromatographic method for the determination of methylmalonic acid in the plasma and urine of ruminants. Journal of Chromatography Biomedical Applications 378, 201–7, 1986
14. O’Harte FPM, Kennedy DG, Blanchflower WJ, Rice DA. Methylmalonic acid in the diagnosis of cobalt deficiency in barley-fed lambs. British Journal of Nutrition 62, 729–38, 1989
15. Simmons WJ. Determination of low concentrations of cobalt in small samples of plant material by flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Analytical Chemistry 47, 2015–8, 1975
16. 12 and methylmalonic acid (MMA) estimations in blood. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 31, 267–75, 1990
17. Underwood EJ, Suttle NF. Cobalt. The Mineral Nutrition of Livestock. 3rd Edtn. Pp 251–82. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK, 1999