[Proteinemia in young cattle during nutrition-induced muscular dystrophy]

The origin and course of enzootic white muscle disease affecting young cattle in spring months after transfer from stables to pastures were accompanied by an apparent tendency to dysproteinemia. Clinically diseased animals showed a decrease of total protein in the blood serum and considerable changes in the protein spectrum. In comparison with findings in the set of clinically healthy controls, the animals affected by the white muscle disease showed a depression of albumins and a simultaneous increase of alpha- and beta-globulins and a decrease of gamma-globulins.