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. 1982 Sep 1;23(3):361–367. doi: 10.1186/BF03546787

Influence of Dietary Sodium Selenite on Tissue Selenium Levels of Growing Pigs

Effekten av natriumselenitt i fôret på selennivåene i organer hos gris.

Knut Moksnes 1,✉, Sverre Tollersrud 1, Hans Jørgen Larsen 1
PMCID: PMC8295759  PMID: 7180781

Abstract

Twenty Norwegian Landrace pigs were divided into 5 groups and fed a basal diet consisting of a mixture of dried skim milk and whey powder together with ground barley. The diet was supplemented with 0, 0.2, 0.8, 1.2 and 2.2 μg selenium as sodium selenite and was fed for 12 weeks. The muscle selenium level was increased by a factor of about 4 and the liver selenium by a factor of about 12 when the dietary selenium supplement was increased from zero to 2.2 μg/g. There was a significant linear correlation between dietary selenium and selenium concentrations in tissues. Possible benefit for humans consuming meat from animals having received the selenium doses used in this experiment are discussed.

dietary selenium; tissue levels; pigs.

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