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Sequential Pathology of Experimental Aflatoxicosis in Quail and the Effect of Selenium Supplementation in Modifying the Disease Process

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Feeding of aflatoxin B1 @ 1 ppm to 2-week old Japanese quail for a period of 8 weeks produced gross and microscopic changes in the liver, skeletal muscles, heart and bursa of Fabricius. These included fatty changes, bile duct hyperplasia and lymphoid aggregation in liver; haemorrhages in thigh, breast muscles and myocardium; mild depletion of lymphocytes, cystic degeneration and fibrous tissue proliferation in bursa of Fabricius. More or less similar lesions were seen in quail chicks fed on aflatoxin with sodium selenite @ 5 ppm but these were of lesser intensity and appeared at later stages of the experiment thereby indicating that supplementation of selenium had some protective action against the toxic effect of aflatoxin B1 in Japanese quail.

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Jakhar, K., Sadana, J. Sequential Pathology of Experimental Aflatoxicosis in Quail and the Effect of Selenium Supplementation in Modifying the Disease Process. Mycopathologia 157, 99–109 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MYCO.0000012227.38967.68

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