title: Red cell and white cell counts in adult female guinea-pigs.
abstract: We made red cell and white cell counts in an homogeneous sample of more than 250 healthy, non gravid, adult, female guinea-pigs. Up to the present it is the highest number of guinea-pigs on which systematic blood counts have been taken. Each category of cells was studied statistically. Our mean of the red cells (5.03 X 106/mm3) is close to most of the means reported in the literature for both sexes; the distribution apparently follows the Gauss normal distribution. The mean of the white cells that we obtained (11.800/mm3) is greater than those of many authors in both sexes. The total number of lymphocytes and monocytes (6.180/mm3) is larger than that of the granulocytes (4.970/mm3). The mean Kurloff cells is 422/mm3. The distribution curves of the aggregate of white cells and those of the granulocytes, the lymphocytes and monocytes, the Kurloff cells are asymmetrical and spread towards the right; the normality hypothesis is rejected for each of them.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004906:Erythrocyte Count; D005260:Female; D006098:Granulocytes; D006168:Guinea Pigs / Q000097:blood*; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D009000:Monocytes; D013223:Statistics as Topic