Relative to healthy animals, turtles
with TS-3 had significantly lower
PCV and glucose and elevated BUN
levels (Tables 2 & 3). In healthy animals,
we found a significant positive
correlation between BCI and total
protein (r = 0.221, p = 0.036) and
between BCI and cholesterol (r =
0.256, p = 0.014), while there was a
significant negative correlation be -
tween BCI and urea (r = −0.234, p =
0.028) and between BCI and the
urea:creatinine ratio (r = −0.262, p =
0.02; Table 4).