Muscular dystrophy in New Zealand livestock
- 1 June 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Veterinary Journal
- Vol. 5 (2) , 61-66
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00480169.1957.33256
Abstract
Extract Muscular dystrophy can be briefly described as a non-inflammatory degeneration or necrosis of skeletal musculature, cardiac musculature, or of both. This type of lesion is characteristically seen in several species of animals kept on diets deficient in Vitamin E and, for this reason, field outbreaks of muscular dystrophy in livestock are widely considered to be associated with Vitamin E deficiency.Keywords
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