Effect of Ascorbate on Healing of Poultry Bruises.
- 1 October 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 108 (1) , 189-192
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-108-26887
Abstract
The level of ascorbate in the blood of normal birds was higher in birds kept at 72 and 21[degree]C than in those raised at 30[degree]C. Bruising resulted in a depletion of ascorbate in the blood probably due to utilization by the damaged tissues. Bruises injected daily with 2.0 mg Na-ascorbate healed at a much faster rate than bruises of non-treated birds. This treatment resulted in fast degradation of the hemoglobin present, mostly to bilirubin in birds kept at 30[degree]C which normally accumulate biliverdin. Na-ascorbate reduced the size of the bruise and activated proteolytic enzyme in bruised tissue.Keywords
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