Research Of The Relationship Between Sheep Paralysis And Minerals Metabolism In The West Of Shandong

Paralysis, one of the common movement disorders in veterinary clinical practice, is the reduction and disappearance of action. Sheep Paralysis is one of the most popular diseases in verterinary clinical meidicine and result in great enconomical losses. At the beginning of this disease, sheep usually lamed and was difficult to move and keep standing. And with the development of the illness, sheep will Paralysis and can not stand up. There were a lot of causes can make sheep paralysis. After all, these reasones can be generalized into three aspects: the malfunction of eurohumoral regulation system, bones and muscle. There are intimate relationships between paralysis and metabolism of minerals and trace elements.To investigate the machanism and provide theoretical basis to control sheep paralysis, 20 sheep were divided into two groups, 10 healthy sheep in control group and 10 paralytic sheep in test group. Serum and wool of all sheep were collected and spectrophotometry was used to detect the content of Fe, Ca, Cu, K, Na, Mg, Zn, P and Mn in the serum and wool. The relationship between these minerals and paralysis also were analyzed. The results as follows:1. The content of Ca and Mn in the serum of paralysis sheep were very significant lower than that in the serum of the control group (P<0.01). And the content of P in the serum of paralysis sheep were significant than that in the serum of the control group (P<0.05).2.The content of Mn in the wool of paralysis sheep were very significant lower than that in the wool of the control group (P<0.01).3. The difference between the content of Cu,K,Na,Fe,Zn and Mg in the serum and wool of paralysis sheep and that of the control group is not remarkable.These results indicated that there were a closed relationship between the metabolism of Ca, P and Mn and the sheep paralysis.