A microcytic anemia of juvenile chinook salmon resulting from diets deficient in vitamin E
By: Cecil M. Whitmore.
Contributors: Oregon. Fish Commission.
Series: Contribution / Fish Commission of Oregon -- no. 29.; Contribution (Oregon. Fish Commission) -- no. 29.
Publisher: Fish Commission of Oregon
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Portland, Ore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Chinook salmon -- Diseases -- Nutritional aspects.; Vitamin E deficiency.; Vitamin E in animal nutrition.; Anemia -- Nutritional aspects.
Description: An anemia of juvenile chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is described and stages of development separated by recognizable syndromes. A vitamin E-deficient diet of low rancidity produced a severe microcytic anemia with strong immature red cell response and granulocytosis occurring 2 to 4 weeks before a drop in hemoglobin and hematocrit values. A vitamin E deficiency in association with diets of high rancidity produced a more severe anemia with impaired and delayed blood regeneration, microcytosis, abnormal red cell development, and a pronounced granulocyte response; complete recovery resulted when vitamin E was added to the diet.
Notes: "March 1965."

Bibliography: p. 24-26.

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Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Materials and methods; value: Results; value: Discussion; value: Summary and conclusions; value: Acknowledgments; value: Literature cited; value: Appendix-Glossary of hematological terms.