Climate change impact on blood haemogram in the horse: a three-year preliminary study
 
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Doç. Dr. Ömer DENİZ Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Francesca Aragona Università Degli Studi Di Messina, İtalya
Barbara A. Murphy
University College Dublin, İrlanda
Doç. Dr. Kenan Çağrı TÜMER Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Arş. Gör. Serkan BOZACI Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Francesco Fazio Università Degli Studi Di Messina, İtalya
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Frontiers in Veterinary Science (Q1)
Dergi ISSN 2297-1769 Dergi Bilgileri (2024)
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 12-2024
Kabul Tarihi – Yayınlanma Tarihi 16-12-2024
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 11 / 1 / 1482268–0 DOI 10.3389/fvets.2024.1482268
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2024.1482268
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Özet
IntroductionThe global climatic changes pose a substantial threat to the well-being and productivity of both humans and animals.MethodsThis study examined the impact of climate changes during different seasons over a 3-year monitoring period (2021–2023) on various blood parameters including, white blood cells (WBC), neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes, hematocrit (HCT), hemoglobin (HGB), red blood cells (RBC), platelets (PLT), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH). The study focused on 25 Thoroughbred mares located in Kastamonu-Türkiye. Thermal and hygrometric parameters, including ambient temperature, relative humidity, and ventilation, were collected. Subsequently, Temperature-Humidity index (THI) was computed. Blood samples were collected on the first day of every month from January 2021 to December 2023 and used for a complete blood count analysis. Between 2021 and 2023, changes in environmental indicators were correlated to changes in hematological parameters.ResultsTwo-way for repeated measures ANOVA revealed a significant seasonal fluctuation (<0.0001) in ambient temperature, relative humidity, and THI. There was a reduction in RBC (<0.01), and MCH (<0.01) every year, HGB (<0.0001) in summer 2021, 2022 and in summer and autumn 2023. HCT (<0.0001), MCV (<0.01), showed decreasing values in autumn 2022 and 2023. MCHC values showed increasing values in July and August 2021, 2022 and in June 2023. WBC levels increased throughout the spring periods of 2021 and 2022. In April 2021, there were elevated levels of lymphocytes and monocytes (<0.0001) respectively.DiscussionThese findings could be helpful to promote the monitoring of physiological status both for the assessment of welfare status and for diagnostic purposes for the evaluation of possible disease outbreaks due to climate change in veterinary medicine.
Anahtar Kelimeler
climate changes | haemogram | hematology | horses | seasonal variations
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Web of Science 9
Scopus 8
Google Scholar 12
Climate change impact on blood haemogram in the horse: a three-year preliminary study

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