Sentences with phrase «cholinesterase levels»

There are times when lowering your pet's cholinesterase levels can be a good thing.

As I mentioned, excessive amounts of two types of insecticides, organophosphates and carbamates, are the most common cause of low blood cholinesterase levels in pets.

If so, that situation could account for lower - than - normal total cholinesterase levels and, perhaps, for unexpected insecticide toxicity even when the correct amount was used.

As I mentioned before, when fat beagle dogs were put on a diet, their acetylcholinesterase (AchE) levels went up while their BchE cholinesterase levels went down.

However, finding their cholinesterase levels to be normal does not rule it out.

Neostigmine helps alleviate the problem by decreasing the pet's cholinesterase levels.

In some cases, the drop in cholinesterase levels due to insecticide poisoning is rapidly lethal to cats, but some cats survive the initial crisis - only to die of fatty liver disease (hepatic lipidosis) later.

In the Spanish / Turkish veterinary study I referenced earlier, fat beagle dogs put on a diet, saw their BchE cholinesterase levels go down while their AchE levels went up.

Cholinesterase levels generally return to normal faster when the exposure was to a carbamates rather than to an organophosphate insecticide.

Hemolysis can falsely increase cholinesterase levels in serum / plasma samples by releasing more of these enzymes from destroyed red blood cells.

In dogs and cats that are showing typical signs of insecticide or other cholinesterase - inhibitor poisoning, finding their cholinesterase levels to be 25 - 35 % (or more) below normal confirms the diagnosis.

When low cholinesterase levels, a history of exposure to cholinesterase inhibitor products or typical symptoms make the diagnosis likely, the treatment is quick administration of atropine and pralidoxime (2 - PAM, Protopam).

Drugs with similar effects to neostigmine, rivastigmine (Exelon patch), which is used to treat human Alzheimer's disease and a similar drug, Donepezil (Aricept) also inhibit (lower) cholinesterase levels.

Not exact matches

There isn't even agreement that blood levels of cholinesterase should be used as a proxy for damage to the central nervous system, Portier says.

Recent human studies monitor levels of cholinesterase in the blood rather than overt signs of illness.