Selected Blood Serum Elements in Van (Turkey) Cats

摘要

The Turkish Van cat originates from eastern Turkey. One of the characteristic features of Vancats is the colour of their eyes, which can be both eyes blue, both eyes amber or one eye blue andthe other amber. Serum essential trace, macro and industrial element concentrations of Van cats(n = 47) according to sex, age, hair length and eye colour differences were investigated. Serumaluminium, arsenic, boron, barium, cobalt, chromium, copper, gallium, indium, iron, lead, lithium,manganese, nickel, selenium, silver, sulphur, strontium, vanadium and zinc were measured withICP-OES plasma optical atomic emission spectrometer. In result, serum aluminium, barium,copper, manganese and strontium levels in male cats were found higher (p < 0.05) than in femalecats. Serum aluminium, copper, manganese, strontium and zinc amounts of blue-blue eyed catswere found higher (p < 0.05) than amber-amber, amber-blue and blue-amber eyed cats, and serumlithium of blue-amber eyed cats was higher (p < 0.05) than blue-blue eyed cats. There were nostatistically significant differences (p > 0.05) found in the age and hair length groups. Our resultsindicate that several of the blood serum elements of Van cats may be related to their eye coloursand sex differences.