INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue: 2

Micronutrient for pre-ruminants and ruminants

  • Author:
  • Alok Mishra1, Preeti Bisht2,*, Manu Jaiswal3
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 305 to 309

1Senior Research Fellow Department of Veterinary PharmacologyCollege of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT)Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)

2Doctorate Scholar Department of Veterinary PharmacologyCollege of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT)Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)

3Doctorate Scholar, Department of Veterinary Medicine, U.P. Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalay Evam Go Anusandhan Sansthan (DUVASU), Mathura

Department of Veterinary PharmacologyCollege of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT)Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)

*Corresponding author. E-mail: pbisht2007@gmail.com

Online Published on 20 April, 2022.

Abstract

A number of vitamins and trace minerals are involved in antioxidant defense system and deficiency of these nutrients may depress immunity in calves. Vitamins A, E and C are the main antioxidant vitamins. Certain micronutrients, such as zinc, iron and manganese are known to improve efficiency of antioxidant vitamins in lipid peroxidation prevention.

Keywords

Micronutrient, Mineral, Supplementation, Vitamin