碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 海洋生物研究所 / 97 / Ever since the establishment of stranding sea turtle report system in recent years and the number of stranded (including sick and injured) turtles increase, the studies of plasma biochemistry of sea turtles in Taiwan is urgently needed. The purpose of this study is to establish the plasma biochemistry reference baseline profiles for the free-ranging green and loggerhead sea turtles in Taiwan and use for the health assessments of captive and stranded sea turtles on the regular basis.
There are two parts of the studies in the thesis. First, blood samples were obtained from 27 by-catch, clinically healthy and 4 nesting green turtles as well as 8 by-catch, clinically healthy loggerhead turtles for the establishment of the reference range. Study found that the subadult green turtles had lower PCV and higher AST than adults. Glucose, BUN and UA values were lower in the nesting green turtles than the non-nesting adult females. However, the nesting females had higher triglyceride and Mg concentrations. These differences might relate to the nesting activities of the female turtles. In loggerheads, the subadults had a lower creatinine values than adults, and the LDH was different between sexes. Second, blood were collected from 33 captive sea turtles and found that the abnormality of BUN, A/G ratio and albumin were most frequent observed. Among different species, green turtles was the most abundant (n=24). They had significantly higher albumin, AST, Mg and BUN than normal greens. These results might relate to the daily dietary nutritional statuses. Similar results were observed from discriminant analysis. We also compared the plasma biochemistry of clinical sick turtles with clinically health captive green turtles, and found that the sick turtle had a higher A/G ratio. This phenomena might caused by the dehydration and immune-suppression.
The results of this study are the first plasma biochemistry baseline profiles for the free-ranging green and loggerhead turtles in Taiwan. We can then apply these profiles for diagnosis of the health status of captive and live stranded turtles properly. Appropriate rehabilitation recommendations and possible therapies for the unhealthy and injured turtles can also be proposed.
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| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/097NTOU5270010 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Chialing Fong, 馮加伶 |
| Contributors | I Jiunn Chen, 程一駿 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 87 |
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