The influence of infection with Ehrlichia phagocytophila (EP) on serum thyroid hormone concentrations and on antipyrine (25 mg/kg of body weight, IV) plasma elimination and urinary metabolite excretion was studied in castrated male dwarf goats. Mean thyroid hormone concentrations moderately decreased in EP-infected goats, with maximal decrease in total and free triiodothyronine and thyroxine serum concentrations of 56, 64, 23, and 19%, respectively. The estimated pharmacokinetic values of antipyrine (AP) in EP-infected goats were similar to those in the goats when healthy. However, glucuronidation of the AP-metabolites 3-hydroxymethyl-AP, 4,4'-dihydroxy-AP, and 4-hydroxy-AP was reduced during the febrile episode of the acute-phase response to EP infection.

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