Effects of hemolysis and storage on quantification of hormones in blood samples from dogs, cattle, and horses.

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Veterinary diagnostic endocrinology laboratories frequently receive hemolyzed plasma, serum, or blood samples for hormone analyses. However, except for the previously reported harm done by hemolysis to canine insulin, effects of hemolysis on quantification of other clinically important hormones are unknown. Therefore, these studies were designed to evaluate effects of hemolysis on radioimmunoassay of thyroxine, 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine, progesterone, testosterone, estradiol, cortisol, and insulin in equine, bovine, and canine plasma. In the first experiment, hormones were measured in plasma obtained from hemolyzed blood that had been stored for 18 hours. Blood samples were drawn from pregnant cows, male and diestrous female dogs, and male and pregnant female horses. Each sample was divided into 2 equal portions. One portion was ejected 4 times with a syringe through a 20-gauge (dogs, horses) or 22-gauge (cows) hypodermic needle to induce variable degrees of hemolysis. Two subsamples of the blood were taken before the first and after the first, second, and fourth ejections. One subsample of each pair was stored at 2 to 4 C and the other was stored at 20 to 22 C for 18 to 22 hours before plasma was recovered and stored at -20 C. The second portion of blood from each animal was centrifuged after collection; plasma was recovered and treated similarly as was blood. Concentrations of thyroxine in equine plasma, of 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine, estradiol, and testosterone in equine and canine plasma, and of cortisol in equine plasma were not affected by hemolysis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Reimers, T. J., Lamb, S. V., Bartlett, S. A., Matamoros, R. A., Cowan, R. G., & Engle, J. S. (1991). Effects of hemolysis and storage on quantification of hormones in blood samples from dogs, cattle, and horses. American Journal of Veterinary Research, 52(7), 1075–1080. https://doi.org/10.2460/ajvr.1991.52.07.1075

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