Research Article
Hamidreza Alipour Kheirkhah an
Abstract
This study was conducted to compare the serumic values of Thyroid hormones and cortisol in Arabian horses with and without gastric ulcers. Endoscopy was performed on 24 Arabian horses in Tabriz area, so 62.5% of Arabian horses suffered from gastric ulcers. In 73.33% ulcer was in non glandular part and 26.67% was in glandular part. There were not statically significant relevance between gastric ulcer and sex. Average serumic values of Thyroid hormones (T3, T4) and cortisol concentration in Arabian horses with gastric ulcer were more than Arabian horses without gastric ulcer. Serumic value of T3 hormone in Arabian horses with gastric ulcer was 116.61±3.81ηg/dl and in Arabian horses without gastric ulcer was 98.54±4.25ηg/dl and T4 was 2.2±0.39 and 2.2±0.33μg/dl and cortisol was 2.43±0.51 and 2.27±0.8 μg/dl. There was a correlation in the differences of T3 (P