scholarly journals White muscle disease in humans: myopathy caused by selenium deficiency in anorexia nervosa under long term total parenteral nutrition

1999 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 829-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. ISHIHARA ◽  
F. KANDA ◽  
T. MATSUSHITA ◽  
K. CHIHARA ◽  
K. ITOH
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
Total Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
White Muscle ◽  
Selenium Deficiency ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
White Muscle Disease

scholarly journals Selenium in long term feeding and the frequency of White Muscle Disease in cattle in Finland during the years 1978—1985

1987 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Hakon W. Westermarck
Keyword(s):  
White Muscle ◽  
Selenium Deficiency ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mineral Salts ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
White Muscle Disease ◽  
The World ◽  
Se Status

Selenium deficiency was established in 1961 as the primary cause for WMD in Finland. This started the propylactic treatment with mineral salts containing 0.1 ppm Se as Sodium selenite in Finland officially in 1969, the first in the world. The incidents of WMD decreased from 1.06 % in 1978 to 0.66 % in 1984. If in heifers only from 18 907 cases, 7.9 % to 11 328 cases, 4.6 %, in 1984. The decrease of WMD cases reflects a better Se status in cattle as a whole, and has also contributed to an increase in the Se content in animal products. Even though Se insufficiency was established to be important for animals, the significance of Se for human beings was disregarded, until the consequences of the deficiency in man was demonstrated by T. Westermarck in 1977.

The development of a soluble glass bolus to deliver selenium and cobalt to sheep

1996 ◽  
Vol 1996 ◽  
pp. 245-245
Author(s):  
N.R. Kendall ◽  
A.M. Mackenzie ◽  
S.B. Telfer
Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
White Muscle ◽  
Selenium Deficiency ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
Single Element ◽  
White Muscle Disease ◽  
Soluble Glass ◽  
Copper Supplementation ◽  
Ruminant Animals ◽  
The Uk

Trace element deficiencies have been reported throughout the UK and are known to decrease the productivity and welfare of animals. Selenium deficiency is characterised by muscular myopathy, white muscle disease or stiff lamb disease. Subclinical deficiencies can also cause reduced growth rate and impaired immune function. In ruminant animals, cobalt is required for the synthesis of vitamin B12 and deficiency leads to Pine, characterised by emaciation, anaemia and listlessness. Trace element deficiencies can be due to either a single element or multiple elements. Situations occur particularly in sheep where cobalt and/or selenium are deficient but where copper supplementation can be toxic. To correct these deficiencies, a single long-lasting and effective treatment in the form of a soluble glass bolus has been designed to release cobalt and selenium. This new bolus is similar to the commercial Cosecure® bolus, which is a Co/Se/Cu soluble glass, in which zinc replaces the copper.

scholarly journals The essentiality of selenium for humans, animals, and plants, and the role of selenium in plant metabolism and physiology

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Garousi
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
White Muscle ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Selenium Deficiency ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
Plant Metabolism ◽  
White Muscle Disease ◽  
Respiration Rates ◽  
Harmful Effects

AbstractAfter its discovery, selenium was most noted for its harmful effects. Selenium was the first element identified to occur in native vegetation at levels toxic to animals. Poisoning of animals can occur through consumption of plants containing toxic levels of selenium. Livestock consuming excessive amounts of selenized forages are afflicted with “alkali disease” and “blind staggers”. Typical symptoms of these diseases include loss of hair, deformed hooves, blindness, colic, diarrhoea, lethargy, increased heart and respiration rates, and eventually death. On the other hand, selenium deficiency in animal feeds can cause “white muscle disease”, a degenerative disease of the cardiac and skeletal muscles. In this regard, this review paper attempts to summarize the essentiality of selenium for humans, animals, and plants and the role of selenium in plant metabolism and physiology.

Neurological deficits in a patient with selenium deficiency due to long-term total parenteral nutrition

2012 ◽  
Vol 259 (8) ◽  
pp. 1734-1735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Oguri ◽  
Manabu Hattori ◽  
Takemori Yamawaki ◽  
Satoshi Tanida ◽  
Makoto Sasaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
Total Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
Selenium Deficiency ◽  
Neurological Deficits

Ultrasonography of the Cardiopulmonary System in Camels (Camelus dromedarius)

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
White Muscle ◽  
Selenium Deficiency ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Dromedary Camels ◽  
White Muscle Disease ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
The Right ◽  
Chronic Pneumonia ◽  
Cardiopulmonary System

This article reviews the normal cardiac chamber appearance and quantitative dimensions in healthy dromedary camels. Besides, it shows results of ultrasonography of the lungs and pleura and its dimensions in camels. First part of the review deals with technique of echocardiography of the normal camel heart and cardiac dimensions, echocardiographic protocol and the results of the right and left parasternal ultrasonograms. It also reviews the minimum, maximum, mean values, standard deviations and coefficient of variation for the internal echocardiographic measurements in healthy camels. Second part of this review article deals with pulmonary ultrasonography and its technique and ultrasonographic finding in healthy camels. It also reviews the measurements for the dorsal and the ventral lung borders and the resulting dorsoventral dimensions of the right and left lungs. Both first and second parts are then followed by practical application of cardiopulmonary ultrasonography in camel medicine. This section shows in order the ultrasonographic findings in camels with white muscle disease (Vitamin E/Selenium deficiency), chronic pneumonia and pleuropneumonia in diseased camels.

scholarly journals Selenium Deficiency in a Patient with Crohn's Disease Receiving Long-term Total Parenteral Nutrition.

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya ISHIDA ◽  
Katsuro HIMENO ◽  
Yasuko TORIGOE ◽  
Megumi INOUE ◽  
Osamu WAKISAKA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crohn’S Disease ◽  
Crohn's Disease ◽  
Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
Total Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
Selenium Deficiency

The development of a soluble glass bolus to deliver selenium and cobalt to sheep

1996 ◽  
Vol 1996 ◽  
pp. 245-245
Author(s):  
N.R. Kendall ◽  
A.M. Mackenzie ◽  
S.B. Telfer
Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
White Muscle ◽  
Selenium Deficiency ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
Single Element ◽  
White Muscle Disease ◽  
Soluble Glass ◽  
Copper Supplementation ◽  
Ruminant Animals ◽  
The Uk

Trace element deficiencies have been reported throughout the UK and are known to decrease the productivity and welfare of animals. Selenium deficiency is characterised by muscular myopathy, white muscle disease or stiff lamb disease. Subclinical deficiencies can also cause reduced growth rate and impaired immune function. In ruminant animals, cobalt is required for the synthesis of vitamin B12 and deficiency leads to Pine, characterised by emaciation, anaemia and listlessness. Trace element deficiencies can be due to either a single element or multiple elements. Situations occur particularly in sheep where cobalt and/or selenium are deficient but where copper supplementation can be toxic. To correct these deficiencies, a single long-lasting and effective treatment in the form of a soluble glass bolus has been designed to release cobalt and selenium. This new bolus is similar to the commercial Cosecure® bolus, which is a Co/Se/Cu soluble glass, in which zinc replaces the copper.

Further observations on plant selenium levels in Western Australia

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 284 ◽  
Author(s):  
MR Gardiner ◽  
RC Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
White Muscle ◽  
Critical Level ◽  
Subterranean Clover ◽  
Selenium Deficiency ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
Annual Rainfall ◽  
Botanical Composition ◽  
White Muscle Disease ◽  
Significant Difference

A survey of plant selenium was carried out in the agricultural district of Western Australia in the spring of 1962. Pasture samples were collected from mid-August to mid-November during, or shortly after, the spring flush of growth in the different districts. Pastures were collected from both 'light' and 'heavy' country in each of the districts, and whenever possible, fertilizer history was recorded and botanical composition determined. Pasture samples from the 10-15 inch rainfall belt averaged 0.26 p.p.m. selenium ; from the 15-20 inch rainfall belt, 0.08 p.p.m., from the 21-30 inch rainfall belt, 0.056 3.p.m ; and from the higher than 30 inch belt, 0.036 p.p.m. If the critical level for selenium deficiency syndromes is placed at 0.05 p.p.m., then deficiency levels mg appear in all rainfall belts, the lower limit of which is the 15 inch isobyet. Regression analyses showed that there was a significant difference between the selenium contents of pastures from heavy and light soils in each rainfall area. The indicator condition of selenium levels of 0.05 p.p.m or less (white muscle disease) has not been seen in the northern range of the higher rainfall districts, although here, as elsewhere, plant selenium levels appear to be predicated on mean annual rainfall figures and on type of county. Grasses and cereals tended to dominate the pastures in the areas with less than 15 inches of rainfall a-year, while subterranean clover with admixtures of capeweed and grasses were chiefly found in the higher rainfall districts.

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