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DEFICIENCY of selenium and vitamin E in the diet of late-gestation ewes is known to cause white muscle disease (WMD) in lambs1,2. It is generally characterized by degenerative changes in skeletal and cardiac muscles. Since the myopathy is prenatally influenced, the development of the disease presumably has a direct relationship with the deprivation of protectors essential for the prevention of nutritional muscular dystrophy.
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DESAI, I. Activity of Lysosomal Enzymes in White Muscle Disease. Nature 209, 1349 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091349a0
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