The possibility to analyze various veterinary animal profiles for complete blood count (CBC) requires a flexible veterinary hematology system. Exigo H400, due to the simplicity in adding profiles with minor software adjustments, has several times been used in evaluations for new profiles such as dolphins, monkeys, elks, hedgehogs, sugar gliders, etc.
How can bears manage to hibernate without get any medical conditions such as muscle loss, osteoporosis, heart failure and bedsores?
Scientists have long been mysteriously wondering how bears manage to hibernate without eating, drinking, urinating and only lying still and still manage to withstand any medical conditions such as muscle loss, osteoporosis, heart failure and bedsores.
A group of scientists, in collaboration with the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project, as well as other researchers in Europe and the US, took on the challenge and spent about six years researching the matter. Several studies overlooked the bears metabolism, kidney function, cardiovascular system, muscle chemistry, etc. Research showed tremendous physiology differences between the bears stages of awakening and hibernation (1).
One of the test areas included hematology parameters, in particular the platelets (PLT), as the scientists were interested in coagulation and possible strokes or thrombus formations. Exigo H400™ was lent to a group of the scientists working in Orsa, Sweden to monitor PLT.
