Abstract
Blood plasma or whole blood of the jugular vein of Holstein calves was sampled immediately after birth and thereafter at the suitable time intervals. Samples were deproteinized by SOMOGYI'S method, lyophilized, trimethylsilylated and were qualitatively identified for sugars by gasliquid chromatography.
1. Fructose, glucose, sorbit and inosit were contained in the blood of the calf at birth.
2. Fructose and sorbit were rapidly disappeared from the blood with the increase of the postnatal time within 6 to 10 hours of birth. Inosit remained in blood.
3. There was no difference in the sort of sugars between whole blood and blood plasma, and the pattern or each peak of sugars was almost similar in both samples.
