Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về bệnh học thý y được đăng trên tạp chí Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về bệnh thú y đề tài: Vitamin E deficiency and risk of equine motor neuron disease. | Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Research Open Access Vitamin E deficiency and risk of equine motor neuron disease Hussni O Mohammed 1 Thomas J Divers2 Brian A Summers4 and Alexander de Lahunta3 Address Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Science College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853 USA 2Department of Clinical Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853 USA 3Department of Molecular Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853-6401 USA and 4Currently Royal Veterinary College University of London Fatfield Herts AL9 7TA UK Email Hussni O Mohammed - hom1@ Thomas J Divers - tjd8@ Brian A Summers - bas2@ Alexander de Lahunta - ad43@ Corresponding author Published 2 July 2007 Received 23 June 2007 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavian 2007 49 17 doi 1751-0147-49-17 Accepted 2 July 2007 This article is available from http content 49 1 17 2007 Mohammed et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Equine motor neuron disease EMND is a spontaneous neurologic disorder of adult horses which results from the degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain stem. Clinical manifestations pathological findings and epidemiologic attributes resemble those of human motor neuron disease MND . As in MND the etiology of the disease is not known. We evaluated the predisposition role of vitamin E deficiency on the risk of EMND. Methods Eleven horses at risk of EMND were identified and enrolled in a field trial at different times. The horses were maintained on a diet deficient in vitamin E and monitored periodically for levels of .
