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CellWell record HH-292623

Nutritional myopathy associated with selenium and copper deficiency in beef cattle in Argentina

Damián J Castro; Carlos A Margineda; Guillermo A Mattioli; Robert Poppenga; Francisco A Uzal

2026

In plain language

Two clusters of muscle disease in adult Argentine beef cattle were associated with low blood glutathione peroxidase and low copper, suggesting copper deficiency may worsen selenium-deficiency oxidative muscle damage.

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