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Causes for elevation: -Successful passive transfer in neonates, cholestasis,
and biliary hyperplasia
Concentrated urine
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- Dogs: >1.030
- Cats: >1.035
- Decreased water intake/dehydration
- Increase excretion of urine solutes (protein and glucose)
,Hemolysis
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- Rupture of RBCs
- Difficult venipuncture
- Blood forced through needle
- Mixed too vigorously
- Blood drawn in moist syringe
Nucleated RBCs can be counted as ______ on an automated counter and therefore must
be corrected for using a blood smear.
a. platelets
b. WBCs
c. mature RBCs
d. reticulocytes
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WBC's
The primary extracellular cation that is commonly measured in veterinary medicine is:
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Sodium
Amylase
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- Source: Pancreas (Primary) and salivary glands (secondary)
- Function: Breakdown of starches and glycogen
- Excreted by kidneys
- Increase causes: pancreatitis, kidney disease, or GI disease/obstruction
Coccidioides immitis
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- Soil saprophyte mainly in desert of SW USA
- Respiratory lesion in dogs (feline rare); can disseminate
- "Valley Fever"
A condition that is characterized by a marked leukocytosis that may be confused with
leukemia is termed:
a. pseudoleukemia
b. myeloproliferative disorder
c. leukemoid response
d. leukopenia
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Leukomoid response
Phosphorus elevations causes what?
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Renal disease, dehydration, hypoparathyroidism, and in young growing
animals
facultative anaerobes
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can live with or without oxygen
Incubation of cultures
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- Optimal growth temperature for pathogen is near 37 C
- Incubated up to 48 hours
- Examined after 18 to 24 hrs for growth
- Nocardia spp. ca take up to 72 hrs
- Placed upside down
- If there is no growth after 3 days it is negative
Blood agar
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