Advantages of Serum Bovine Blood Electrophoresis in Veterinary Diagnosis

Abstract

The veterinary practitioner, for the diagnosis of diseases, needs practical tools, fast, inexpensive, and, above all, available. The importance of this chapter lies in the reduction of various para-clinical examinations known in bovine medicine, which are often difficult to handle during a displacement in rural areas and which are also expensive. For this reason, serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) is an important component of laboratory diagnostic evaluations for serum protein measurement. Electrophoresis is based on the movement of charged particles through a buffered medium subjected to an electric field. Some variations that can be noticed in the SPE depend on some physiological and pathological cases. Early diagnosis of diseases is particularly important because treatments are no longer effective when the degree of consequences damages are too severe; because the clinical signs are not specific, the general clinical examination of the dairy cow can only lead to a suspicion of disease without a necessary tool, for confirmation or discover an insidious inflammatory process.