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White muscle disease in three selenium deficient beef and dairy calves in Argentina and Uruguay. (Doença do músculo branco em três bezerros para carne e leite deficientes em selênio na Argentina e Uruguai).

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ABSTRACT: White muscle disease (WMD), nutritional myodegeneration or enzootic muscular dystrophy, is a nutritional condition associated with selenium and/or vitamin E deficiency in ruminants. These elements are constituents of the major body antioxidant systems. Depletion of selenium results in oxidative damage to cardiac and skeletal muscle cells, resulting in myodegeneration and myonecrosis, typical lesions of WMD. Selenium deficiency is common in South America, but WMD is underreported.