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Nutritional Secondary Hyperparathyroidism in the Horse

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2 Introduction and Object of Investigation<br />

2. To study <strong>the</strong> cont<strong>in</strong>uous changes <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> phosphorus, calcium,<br />

and alkal<strong>in</strong>e phosphatase levels <strong>in</strong> blood serum of horses suffer<strong>in</strong>g<br />

from experimental nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism <strong>in</strong>duced<br />

by imbalanced calcium-phosphorus feed<strong>in</strong>g ;<br />

3. To study <strong>the</strong> cont<strong>in</strong>uous roentgenologic changes <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

skeleton <strong>in</strong> nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism of <strong>the</strong> horse ;<br />

and<br />

4. To study <strong>the</strong> morphology of experimental nutritional secondary<br />

hyperparathyroidism <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> horse with special reference to <strong>the</strong> func-<br />

tional state of <strong>the</strong> parathyroid glands.<br />

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