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Phospholipids in artificially induced muscular dystrophy of calves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2007

Ritva Poukka Evarts  and
Aili Oksanen
Ritva Poukka Evarts
Affiliation:
Departments of Biochemistry and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Helsinki, Finland
Aili Oksanen
Affiliation:
Departments of Biochemistry and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Helsinki, Finland
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1. Phospholipds were studied in the heart muscles, skeletal muscles and livers of seven Ayrshire calves which received vitamin E-free maize oil (in filled milk) with and without supplementary α-tocopherol from 1 week old for 17 d. The calves that were not given vitamin E developed muscular dystrophy.

2. Decreased amounts of cardiolipin and increased amounts of sphingomyelin were found in the skeletal muscles of vitamin E-deficient calves. There was a significant decrease of phosphatidyl choline in the livers of vitamin E-deficient calves.

3. The decrease in cardiolipin concentration confirmed the electron-microscopical picture (reported elsewhere) of preferential destruction of mitochondria in muscular dystrophy of calves.

Type
General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , March 1973 , pp. 293 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1973

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