ORIGINAL ARTICLE Selected biochemical values of yearling African blue neck

Abstract Ten 12-month-old male clinically healthy young blue neck breed ostriches (Struthio camelus) from Zabol district of Sistan, Baluchestan province, Iran were blood sampled in plain tubes for harvesting serum. The concen-trations of total protein, albumin, cholesterol, HDL choles-terol, LDL cholesterol, triglyceride, uric acid, calcium, inorganic phosphorus, and the activity of aspartate amino-transferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) were measured. The following results were obtained: total protein, 35.3±2 g/l; albumin, 16.4±1.53 g/l; globulin, 18.9±0.8 g/l; total cho-lesterol, 1.67±0.11 mmol/l; LDL cholesterol, 0.68± 0.07 mmol/l; HDL cholesterol, 0.67±0.02 mmol/l; triglyc-eride, 0.70±0.1 mmol/l; uric acid, 302.15±20.81 μmol/l; calcium, 2.27±0.15 mmol/l; inorganic phosphorus, 1.81± 0.13 mmol/l; AST, 246.3±22.4 IU/l; ALT, 8.4±0.52 IU/l; and GGT activity, 26.9±2.97 IU/l. Correlations between measured parameters were also determined. Blood biochem-ical values determined in this study can be considered as reference data for disease diagnosis in yearling African blue neck ostriches (S. camelus) in Iran