Serum vitamin E and blood glutathione peroxidase values of horses with degenerative myeloencephalopathy

Dill, S.G.; Kallfelz, F.A.; DeLahunta, A.; Waldron, C.H.

Serum vitamin E and blood glutathione peroxidase values of horses with degenerative myeloencephalopathy

1989

Dill, S.G. | Kallfelz, F.A. | DeLahunta, A. | Waldron, C.H.

Serum vitamin E and blood glutathione peroxidase values were determined in 40 horses with a histologically confirmed diagnosis of degenerative myeloencephalopathy and in 49 age-matched control horses with normal neurologic function. Significant differences were not detected in serum vitamin E or blood glutathione peroxidase values between horses affected with degenerative myeloencephalopathy and control horses. These findings fail to support a reported role of vitamin E deficiency as a cause of equine degenerative myeloencephalopathy.

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