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OJVRTM

Online Journal of Veterinary Research©

(Including Medical and Laboratory Research)

Established 1994

ISSN 1328-925X

 

Volume  29 (7): 410-416, 2025.


Glycated hemoglobin (HbG) associated with glucose in sheep and lambs.

 

Shahbazkia HR, Nazifi S.

 

Departments of Biochemistry and Clinical Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Iran.

 

ABSTRACT

 

Shahbazkia HR, Nazifi S, Glycated hemoglobin (HbG) associated with glucose in sheep and lambs., Onl J Vet Res., 29 (7): 410-416, 2025. We report association between glycated hemoglobin and plasma glucose in sheep and lambs. Jugular blood was taken from 25 male and female sheep and 30 lambs. After separation and washing of red blood cells, hemolysate was subjected to cation exchange chromatography for glycated hemoglobin and glucose was measured in plasma. In sheep, plasma glucose was 69.2 ± 3.24 mg/dl and glycated hemoglobin 2.58 ± 0.26% of total hemoglobin whereas in lambs were 84.8 ± 9.31 mg/dl and 3.17 ± 0.29% with correlation (r = 0.82, p<0.05). To determine if low glycated hemoglobin in was associated with reduced permeability of erythrocytes to glucose, hemolysates were incubated 70mg/dl glucose in sheep and 85mg/dl in lambs for chromatography. Our results suggest glycated  increased in sheep but not in lambs.

 

Key Words: Glycated haemoglobin(HbG), Cation exchange chromatography, Iranian fat-tailed sheep, Lamb, Plasma glucose, Erythrocyte permeability.