Alaskan Husky encephalopathy - A canine neurodegenerative disorder resembling subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy (Leigh syndrome)

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-62

  Brenner, Ori ^a,b   Wakshlag, Joseph J ^a   Summers, Brian A ^a   De Lahunta, Alexander ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alaskan Husky; Dog; Leigh's disease; Metabolic encephalopathy; Subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ATAXIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOG; GENETIC DISORDER; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERPLASIA; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LEIGH DISEASE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; THALAMUS;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; ALASKA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; INBREEDING; LEIGH DISEASE; MALE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0034082391     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051192     Document Type: Article

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