Abstract
Summary
The results of these experiments support the hypothesis that cysteine is the sulfur compound, or the precursor of a compound, involved in the prevention of nutritional muscular dystrophy in the chicken. Dietary cholie acid increases the rate of cysteine to taurine conversion and at the same time accentuates the dystrophy. Taurocholic acid and taurine decrease the rate of cysteine to taurine conversion and also partially alleviate the dystrophy. Vitamin E supplementation greatly reduces the taurine excretion rate, compared to that of the dystrophic chicks fed the basal diet.
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