Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
Suspected Vitamin E and Selenium Deficiency in a Veiled Chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus
Suspected Vitamin E and Selenium Deficiency in a Veiled Chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus
DVM,
BVSc, MS, PhD, DABT,
MS, VMD, PhD, DACVP, and
MS, DVM, DACZM
Page Range: 113 – 116
Nutritional myopathy was diagnosed in an adult male veiled chameleon, Chameleo calyptratus. The chameleon presented with a 1-yr history of progressive inability to use tongue, followed by profound weakness and circling. Histopathologic examination revealed generalized, subacute to chronic skeletal myopathy consistent with vitamin E and selenium deficiency seen in mammals.ABSTRACT
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