Special Veterinary Pathology

PROTEIN

• Inadequate food
• Another means
• Effects are most pronounced in young growing animals
• Lesions are not specific
• The major pathologic change include failure to grow, cessation of cell proliferation of epiphyseal cartilages, reduced osteoblastic activity, failure of collagen formation, atrophy of endocrine glands (including testicle and ovary, atrophy of thymus an lymphoid tissues, fatty liver, anemia hypoteinemia, and edema
• It is further complicated by the superimposition of infections