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  • Title: Muscular dystrophy-like disease in a thoroughbred foal.
    Author: Shirakawa T, Ide M, Taniyama H, Tobiwatari K, Senba H, Oishi H, Matsui T, Ono T.
    Journal: J Comp Pathol; 1989 Apr; 100(3):287-94. PubMed ID: 2524508.
    Abstract:
    A 1-month-old male thoroughbred foal, which had difficulty in walking, was killed and examined by histological, histochemical and ultrastructural methods. The muscles of the trunk and upper hind limbs were chiefly affected, and changes in the affected muscles resembled those in muscular dystrophy in man. The type of muscular dystrophy present in this foal and the significance of this disease in thoroughbred horses are discussed. The dystrophy in this foal resembled the limb-girdle type or myotonic dystrophy of muscular dystrophy in man.
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