weekly intramuscular injections of either selenium ( as selenous acid buffered to ph ( 7.3 ) at the rate of 0.05 mg/kg of body weight or vitamin e at the rate of 20 iu/kg of body weight or the combination of selenium and vitamin e prevented cardiac and skeletal myodegeneration , hepatic necrosis , and death .
C0074280
selenous acid
C0036581
selenium