Publication Date:
1984-02-03
Description:
Cattle grazing St. Augustine grass growing on peaty muck soils in the Florida Everglades developed anemia associated with the presence of Heinz bodies and suboptimal concentrations of selenium in blood. Selenium supplementation corrected the anemia, prevented Heinz body formation, increased the body weight of cows and calves, and elevated blood selenium. This may be the first recorded example of widespread anemia in a population due to selenium deficiency.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Morris, J G -- Cripe, W S -- Chapman, H L Jr -- Walker, D F -- Armstrong, J B -- Alexander, J D Jr -- Miranda, R -- Sanchez, A Jr -- Sanchez, B -- Blair-West, J R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Feb 3;223(4635):491-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6691160" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Anemia, Hemolytic/drug therapy/etiology/*veterinary
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Animal Feed
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Animals
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Body Weight
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Cattle
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Cattle Diseases/drug therapy/*etiology
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Heinz Bodies/*ultrastructure
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Hematocrit
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Hemoglobins/analysis
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Selenium/administration & dosage/blood/*deficiency
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
