Beneficial effects of antioxidants in improving health conditions of sheep infected with foot-and-mouth disease

The effect of multinutrient antioxidant treatment on sheep naturally infected with FMD virus was investigated in terms of general health conditions, serum proteins profile, and antioxidant/oxidant parameters. Twenty diseased sheep were divided into 4 equal groups ( n = 5) and underwent certain ther...

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Published in:	Tropical animal health and production Vol. 51; no. 8; pp. 2379 - 2386
Main Authors:	Abou-Zeina, Hala A. A., Nasr, Soad M., Nassar, Somia A., Farag, Tark K., El-Bayoumy, Mohamed K., Ata, Emad Beshir, Hassan, Noha M. F., Abdel-Aziem, Sekena H.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01-11-2019 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Animals Antioxidants Antioxidants - metabolism Antioxidants - pharmacology Antioxidants - therapeutic use Bioassays Biomedical and Life Sciences Blood Proteins - metabolism Comet assay Damage detection DNA damage Foot & mouth disease Foot-and-Mouth Disease - drug therapy Globulins Health Health services Life Sciences Methionine Methionine - analogs & derivatives Methionine - therapeutic use Organometallic Compounds - therapeutic use Oxidative stress Oxidative Stress - drug effects Oxidizing agents Regular Articles Selenium Selenium - therapeutic use Serum proteins Sheep Sheep Diseases - drug therapy Tocopherol Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science Viruses Vitamin E Vitamin E - therapeutic use Yeast Yeasts Zoology Antioxidants Sheep Foot-and-mouth disease Treatment Serum proteins
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Summary:	The effect of multinutrient antioxidant treatment on sheep naturally infected with FMD virus was investigated in terms of general health conditions, serum proteins profile, and antioxidant/oxidant parameters. Twenty diseased sheep were divided into 4 equal groups ( n = 5) and underwent certain therapeutic protocols for 8 weeks as follows: GI, infected not treated group; GII, infected and treated with the ideal and usual line of treatment against FMD virus infection; GIII, infected animals supplemented orally zinc methionine at a dose of 5 g/head/day and vitamin E with selenium-enriched yeast at the same dose level; GIV, infected animals received both the ideal treatment and antioxidants. The animals under experiment were clinically evaluated. Blood samples were obtained for the comet assay and biochemical examination at zero time and at the 8th week after treatment. Results revealed that DNA damage reduced in both GIII and GIV groups which received antioxidants. In the GI group, the activity of SOD and GPx and the level of total antioxidant capacity (TAC) markedly decreased. However, in both GIII and GIV groups treated with multinutrient antioxidants, GPx and TAC values significantly increased after treatment in comparison with the values of the same groups before treatment. After treatment with multinutrient antioxidants, α 1-, β-, and γ-globulins levels markedly increased in GII and GIII groups while α 2-globulin level decreased. The improvement in healing of clinical signs and general health conditions was clear in the GIV group. Finally, FMD infection in sheep was found to be associated with oxidative stress. The use of antioxidants as therapeutic approaches recovers and improves general health conditions and performance of affected animals.
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ISSN:	0049-4747 1573-7438
DOI:	10.1007/s11250-019-01952-9