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. 1997 Aug;38(8):496–498.

Copper toxicity in confinement-housed ram lambs.

N J Lewis 1, A H Fallah-Rad 1, M L Connor 1
PMCID: PMC1576804  PMID: 9262859

Abstract

Fourteen Suffolk rams (6 mo) were diagnosed with chronic copper poisoning. Preliminary results indicated that a combination of serum aspartate aminotransferase, gamma glutamyltransferase, and copper could be used as a test so that high risk lambs could be treated more aggressively.

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