Nutritional muscular degeneration in young heifers

Pehrson, B.; Hakkarainen, J.; Työppönen, J.

Nordisk Veterinaermedicin 38(1): 26-30

1986


ISSN/ISBN: 0029-1579
PMID: 3703672
Document Number: 285518
Young heifers with nutritional muscular degeneration had relatively low serum tocopherol values despite being on pasture which contained high levels of vitamin E. One possible explanation may be that vitamin E was destroyed within the rumen, another that the clinical symptoms arose very soon after turning out the animals.

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