Article Assignment 3: Article Summary

Daniel Alejandro Arevalo-Rivers

11/26/2017

BIOL-1616-1615-317-F17-Later
The clinical pathology article of A need for dynamic hematology and serum biochemistry

reference tools: novel use of sine wave functions to produce seasonally varying reference curves

in platypuses talks about the changes that happen with every season over in hematology and

serum biochemistry that has been separated in separate changes for every season that have been

reported in different species or subjects of the wild life. A development was made to research

seasonal variation based in different functions that with the correct variable it can represent data

more efficiently than other types of fixed intervals.

This experiment was placed on 126 subjects of full grown platypuses (ornithorhynchus anatinus;

58 females and 68 males) and samples were taken with while the animals were put under

isoflurane anesthesia this specimens were captured from the ingles catchment in northwest

Tasmania. The subjects seem to have values that were lower than two other studies that were

taken from platypuses that were reported regarding the levels of packed cell volume, red cell

count and hemoglobin. This was because of lower levels of stress that was related to the to

splenic contraction or isofluranceand the sequestration of red blood cells in the study(A need for

dynamic hematology 12/02/2017).

Different types of curves were described in five different variables. Data was found that the

changes on the season can result in changes in the metabolism that are associated with the

changes in temperature on an ecosystem. So they determine that it was important to report

changes in the data with the platypus hematology and serum biochemistry so that they could get

the changes on their data to be more accurate.

Citations :
James W. Macgregor, Carly S. Holyoake, Joanne H. Connolly, Ian D. Robertson, Patricia A.
Fleming, and Kristin S. Warren (2017) A NEED FOR DYNAMIC HEMATOLOGY AND
SERUM BIOCHEMISTRY REFERENCE TOOLS: NOVEL USE OF SINE WAVE
FUNCTIONS TO PRODUCE SEASONALLY VARYING REFERENCE CURVES IN
PLATYPUSES (ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS). Journal of Wildlife Diseases: April 2017,
Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 235-247.