An evaluation of the effect of age and the peri-parturient period on bone metabolism in dairy cows as measured by serum bone-specific alkaline phosphatase activity and urinary deoxypyridinoline concentration
| Autor: | Yasunori Wada, Reiichiro Sato, Hajime Kato, Hideharu Ochiai, Kazuyuki Kaneko, Yukio Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Kawai, Tsunenori Iriki, Ken Onda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty Deoxypyridinoline Urinary system chemistry.chemical_element Calcium Bone and Bones Bone resorption Bone remodeling chemistry.chemical_compound Internal medicine Peripartum Period medicine Animals Hypocalcaemia Amino Acids General Veterinary business.industry Metabolism Alkaline Phosphatase medicine.disease Endocrinology chemistry Alkaline phosphatase Cattle Female Animal Science and Zoology business |
| Zdroj: | The Veterinary Journal. 197:358-362 |
| ISSN: | 1090-0233 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tvjl.2013.01.013 |
| Popis: | Various biochemical markers help to evaluate the state of bone turnover in humans and could be used during the peri-parturient period in dairy cows when calcium (Ca) metabolism changes dramatically. To investigate this, the peri-partum characteristics of serum bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (BAP) and urinary deoxypyridinoline (DPD) were investigated. Both serum BAP activity and urinary DPD concentrations were increased and demonstrated wide variability in younger animals, and these findings were consistent with other bone turnover markers. Around the time of parturition, serum Ca concentration and serum BAP activity in multiparous cows were significantly lower than in primiparous cows, but urinary DPD concentration was unchanged. The use of BAP as a bone formation marker appears to be valuable for evaluating bone remodelling status in cows, but the specificity of the test needs to be confirmed. The DPD/BAP ratio around parturition demonstrated a clear difference in bone turnover status between the two parity groups with multiparous cows demonstrating increased signs of bone resorption compared with primiparous cows, corresponding to the Ca requirement for milk production. In future studies, the applicability of the ratio of bone resorption marker to bone formation marker should be evaluated for bone turnover assessment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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