Normal oxalic blood levels in domestic animals

Abstract

The authors stress the toxicological importance of oxalic acid. They discuss the metabolic pathways and the possible accidental and intentional intoxications in veterinary and human medicine. They point out the inexistence, in national bibliography, of works that relate normoxalemy and animal species. Determinations of oxalic acid have been carried out, by the method of Merz and Maugeri, in the blood of 156 domestic animals belonging to six different species. The results obtained have been analysed statistically. The authors have concluded in favour of the existence of oxalemic values that significantly differ at a 1% level when comparing the results obtained after submitting the animals of groups A, B and C to the test of Scheffé.