SERUM CALCITONIN LEVELS IN DRAUGHT EQUINES WITH DIVERSE FOOT AFFECTIONS

摘要

The study was conducted in 23 equines of either sex to determine alteration in calcitonin (CT) with foot affections. The CT values in buttress foot (240.00 ± 70.98 pg/ml); navicular diseases (180.00 ± 50.19 pg/ml), osselets (205.00 ± 50.19 pg/ml),ringbone (159.22 ± 23.66 pg/ml) and sidebone (171.00 ± 26.83 pg/ml) were significantly higher(P<0.05) than the mean values (94.00 ± 59.19 pg/ml) of the clinically normal animals. The calcitonin hormone profile clearly showed that bone affections alterthe serum calcitonin level of horses significantly.