Title: Blood gases and hematological variables of chick embryos with widely altered shell conductance
Abstract: 1. Water vapour conductance (gH20) of the shell was widely altered at the beginning of incubation, and blood gas and hematological variables were determined on day 16 of incubation. 2. Changes in blood gas tensions (PaO2 and PaCO2), hematocrit and mean corpuscular indices were expressed by a quadratic regression equation of inverse gH2P 3. In connection with lowered gH20, the reduced PaO2 might contribute to increases in both cell count and macrocytes and concurrent hypercapnia, increasing mean cell volume (MCV). 4. The marked increase in MCV along with the small decrease in mean corpuscular hemoglobin at lowered gH20 accounted for prominent decrease in mean cell hemoglobin concentration. The whole blood hemoglobin concentration was however maintained high by increased cell count.
Publication Year: 1988
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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