Table 1.
Summarized signalment and clinical information for 30 white rhinoceros with tissue trauma.
Table 2.
Estimates of imprecision and Rf values for different protein fractions in white rhinoceros serum on the Interlab Pretty electrophoresis platform.
Fig 1.
Serum agarose gel tracings from white rhinoceros.
(A) Typical serum agarose gel electrophoresis pattern from a healthy adult white rhinoceros (sample 15). TSP 85 g/L, A/G 0.22. (B) Adult male (sample number 54) with extensive fight wounds (acute) has hypoproteinemia with hypoalbuminemia and decreases in all globulin fractions apart from γ -globulins. TSP 53 g/L, A/G 0.22. (C) Female calf (sample 80) post-colic surgery (acute) with aspiration pneumonia has a severe hypoproteinemia with marked decreases in α2-, β- and γ-globulins. TSP 48 g/L, A/G 0.46. (D) Adult male (sample 64) with multiple bullet wounds (chronic) has protein concentrations for all fractions within reference intervals, but the electrophoretogram tracing shows a relative polyclonal gammopathy of the β-2 and γ -globulins. TSP 78 g/L, A/G 0.21. Fractions from left to right are: albumin, α1a, α1b, α2, β1, β2 and γ -globulins. Numbers in yellow script indicate percentage of each fraction. TSP: Total serum protein, A/G: Albumin: globulin ratio, SPE: Serum protein electrophoresis.
Table 3.
Proteins identified in the candidate α1b and α2 bands, with their reported electrophoretic migration in other species, as previously reported [12–15, 28–30].
Table 4.
Serum protein reference intervals for the white rhinoceros.
Table 5.
Comparison of results for total serum protein, albumin and globulin fractions for healthy and injured white rhinoceros.