VIT E Flashcards
VIT E scientificallly active
tocopherol
evans isolated
vit e from wheat germ oil
function of vit e
chain breaking antioxidant
preventing peroxidation of PUFA
most conc natural source of vit e
wheat germ oil
vit e content of egg is proportional to its content in
layer diet
deficirncy of vit e causes
testicular degeneration of dogs pigs rabbits
birth of weak offsprings
vit e is also called
antisterility vitamin
vit e responsible for fertility in
atsmice hamsters guinea pig
vit e deficiency in calves
white muscle disease muscular dystrophy
in lambs vit e deficieny
stiff lamb disease
in turkey poults vite deficiency causes
gizzard myopathy
chronic vit e deficiency causes injury to heartb muscles of pigs
ulberry heart diseaase
in chicks vit e def causes
nutritional encephalomalacia or crazy chick disease
in chicks muscular dystrophy can be allevuated by
supplementing vit e selenium s containing amino acids
crazy chick disease characteristised by
uncoordinated gait
brain lesions
prostration
basic effect of vit e deficiency
haemolytic aneamia
in cat mink reptiles vit e deficiency with high level pufa causes
steatitis or yellow fat disease
vit e causes cerebellar
swelling
requirement of cattle
2.61 IU /KG BODYWEIGHT
VIT K IDENTIFIED BY
henrick dam
vit k essential for
normal coagulation
clotting factors 2 7 9 10
vit k converts
prothrombin to thrombin
vit k is structurily related to
ubiquinones mitochondria
vit k involved in
oxidative phosphoryalation
plants vit k exist as
K1 or PHYLLOQUINONE
IN ANIMALS VIT K EXIST AS
VIT K2 OR MENAQUINONE
antimetabolite oof vit k
DICOUMaROL
feeding of spoiled sweet clover causes
bleeding disease in ruminants/haemorrhagic sweet clover disease in ruminants
synthetic form of vit k is menadione
absorption of vit k
bile pancreatic juice
passive
vit k1 active
transported with chylomicrons vldl ldl
greatest storage site of vit e
muscles
ruminants all requirements met by
rumen microbial synthesis
non ruminants vit k
produced by caecum and colon
onogastric animals should be provided in diet