Table 3.

Spearman correlation coefficients (r) for selected blood and liver variables, from downer cows with fatty liver as in Table 1. All correlations presented are significant (P < 0.05)

	AST	OCT	SDH	GDH	ALP	GGT	NEFA	CK	tBIL	CHOL	AcAc	β-HB	GLU	tLPD	TG	BUN
OCT	0.566
SDH	0.503	0.621
GDH	0.554	0.425
ALP	0.685	0.590	0.476
GGT				0.367	0.513
NEFA	0.683
CK	0.741					0.333
tBIL	0.610	0.703	0.548		0.594			0.355
CHOL	−0.390	−0.634		−0.452			−0.475
AcAc		0.339					0.440
β-HB					−0.332		0.456				0.764
GLU	−0.376	−0.432							−0.369	0.481
tLPD		0.562					0.521			−0.506	0.336
TG	0.648	0.645					0.557	0.448		−0.358	0.426	0.378	−0.417	0.635
BUN			0.416			0.508									0.367
Ca				0.370		−0.425										−0.427
K						−0.301		−0.338	−0.354
P					0.330				−0.340							0.408

BUN — blood urea nitrogen, OCT — ornithine carbamoyl transferase, GDH — glutamate dehydrogenase, AST — aspartate aminotranferase, ALP — alkaline phosphatase, SDH — sorbitol dehydrogenase, TG — triglyceride content in hepatic tissue, tLPD — total lipid concentration in hepatic tissue, β-HB — β-hydroxybutyrate, AcAc — acetoacetic acid, GLU — Glucose, CHOL — cholesterol, Ca — total serum calcium, P — inorganic phosphorus, NEFA — non-esterified fatty acids, K — potassium, tBIL — total bilirubin, CK — creatine kinase, GGT — γ-glutamyltransferase.