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The effect of selenium and linseed oil on growth
of sheep and content of selected fatty acids
in M. longissimus dorsi
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The Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Polish Academy of Sciences,
05-110 Jabłonna, Poland
Publication date: 2004-08-30
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M. Czauderna
The Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Polish Academy of Sciences,
05-110 Jabłonna, Poland
J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2004;13(Suppl. 1):303-306
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The influence of linseed oil (LO) and selenium (as Na2SeO4) on organs, muscles and body
weight gain of sheep, as well as the fatty acid composition of M. longissimus dorsi was investigated.
Twenty male lambs of body weight of 25±2 kg were divided into four treatment groups and fed a
control diet or experimental diets enriched in 5% linseed oil (LO), 2 ppm selenium (SE) or combined
addition of 5% LO and 2 ppm selenium (LOSE). The effects of the experimental diets on organs and
body weight gain of the sheep were small, but the LOSE treatment increased M. biceps femoris mass
and body weight gain. All experimental diets numerically decreased the level of saturated fatty acids
as well as the content of cis-9C18:1 in M. longissimus dorsi. LO supplied to the diet numerically
increased the content of conjugated linoleic acid isomers and other unsaturated fatty acids in M.
longissimus dorsi (with the exception of cis-9C18:1). The SE and LOSE treatments numerically
decreased the content of unsaturated fatty acids.
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