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Plasmaproteins and some hematochemical data related to Grampus griseus (Cetacea, Delphinidae) of the Western Mediterranean

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Abstract

The plasmaprotein of a specimen of Grampus griseus G Cuvier, captured in the Western Mediterranean, is studied for the first time and the data obtained are compared with data previously determined by the same method (microelectrophoresis on cellulose acetate gel) for Stenella, Delphinus and Phocaena. Some hematochemical values related to glycemia, azotemia and cholesterolemia (total and fractional) are also given and discussed, together with data on glutamic oxalacetic and glutamic pyruvic transaminases; special reference is made to the theory of Cornelius (1963) on hepatic glutamic pyruvic transaminase.

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  1. Laboratory for Medico-Biochemical Research, Trieste, Italy

    T. de Monte

  2. Brain Anatomy Institute, Waldau/Berne, Switzerland

    G. Pilleri

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Communicated by O. Kinne, Hamburg

Contributions on Cetacea: XXIV. Prepared with the assistance of the “Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen, Forschung” (Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research, Grant No. 4606) and the C.N.R.S. (National Centre for Scientific Research), Paris.

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de Monte, T., Pilleri, G. Plasmaproteins and some hematochemical data related to Grampus griseus (Cetacea, Delphinidae) of the Western Mediterranean. Marine Biol. 1, 182–184 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347109

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