SUSPECTED UROLITHIASIS IN A FEMALE ZOO YAK (BOS GRUNNIENS) BASED ON UROLITH ANALYSIS.
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| Název: | SUSPECTED UROLITHIASIS IN A FEMALE ZOO YAK (BOS GRUNNIENS) BASED ON UROLITH ANALYSIS. |
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| Autoři: | MIHAYLOV, R.1, GERZILOV, V.2, KANAKOV, D.3 dian.kanakov@trakia-uni.bg, ZHELEVA, ZH.4, MIHAYLOV, B.5 |
| Zdroj: | Bulgarian Journal of Veterinary Medicine. Sep2025, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p515-524. 10p. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Témata: | Yak, Scientific literature, X-ray powder diffraction, Domestic animals, Zoo animals |
| Author-Supplied Keywords: | Bos grunniens captive struvite stones urolithiasis yak zoo animals |
| Abstrakt: | Numerous publications devoted to urolithiasis in domestic animals are encountered in the scientific literature. Although less frequently, there are reports on urolithiasis occurrence in wild animals, living either freely in nature or in captivity. Uroliths may form in the urinary tract both of male and female mammals with equal prevalence, yet the clinical disease associated with obstruction or partial obstruction of urinary ducts is much more common in male animals. This is the most probable reason for the lack of scientific reports of spontaneously excreted uroliths in the literature. An accidental finding of four uroliths within a cage facility on the territory of the Stara Zagora Zoo was the incentive for their macroscopic and stereoscopic analysis, as well as powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis of the phase composition of the samples. The stones were identified as struvite, composed of magnesium ammonium phosphate (MgNH4PO4.6H2O). Our hypothesis was that they were excreted by a female yak (Bos grunniens) reared in the facility because of their size and some specific biological features of yaks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Author Affiliations: | 1Department of Basic Sciences in Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Agriculture, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 2Department of Animals Sciences, Faculty of Agronomy, Agricultural University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 3Department of Internal Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 4Department of Press Journalism and Book Publishing, Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, Sofia University, Bulgaria 5Department of Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria |
| ISSN: | 1311-1477 |
| DOI: | 10.15547/bjvm.2024-0056 |
| Přístupové číslo: | 186366916 |
| Databáze: | Veterinary Source |
| Abstrakt: | Numerous publications devoted to urolithiasis in domestic animals are encountered in the scientific literature. Although less frequently, there are reports on urolithiasis occurrence in wild animals, living either freely in nature or in captivity. Uroliths may form in the urinary tract both of male and female mammals with equal prevalence, yet the clinical disease associated with obstruction or partial obstruction of urinary ducts is much more common in male animals. This is the most probable reason for the lack of scientific reports of spontaneously excreted uroliths in the literature. An accidental finding of four uroliths within a cage facility on the territory of the Stara Zagora Zoo was the incentive for their macroscopic and stereoscopic analysis, as well as powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis of the phase composition of the samples. The stones were identified as struvite, composed of magnesium ammonium phosphate (MgNH4PO4.6H2O). Our hypothesis was that they were excreted by a female yak (Bos grunniens) reared in the facility because of their size and some specific biological features of yaks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 13111477 |
| DOI: | 10.15547/bjvm.2024-0056 |