White muscle disease in three selenium deficient beef and dairy calves in Argentina and Uruguay

White muscle disease in three selenium deficient beef and dairy calves in Argentina and Uruguay

ABSTRACT: White muscle disease (WMD), nutritional myodegeneration or enzootic muscular dystrophy, is a nutritional condition associated with selenium and/or vitamin E deficiency in ruminants. These elements are constituents of the major body antioxidant systems. Depletion of selenium results in oxid...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Martín Rodriguez, Carlos Omar Schild, Germán José Cantón, Franklin Riet-Correa, Joaquín Ignacio Armendano, Rubén Darío Caffarena, Emilio César Brambilla, Juan Agustín García, Eleonora Lidia Morrell, Robert Poppenga, Federico Giannitti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 2018-05-01
Series:Ciência Rural
Subjects:
mortalidade de bezerros
insuficiência cardíaca
deficiências minerais
miopatia nutricional
América do Sul.
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782018000500550&lng=en&tlng=en

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