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Case report of a possible familial predisposition to metabolic bone disease in juvenile rhesus macaques.
Laboratory animals - 1 Apr 2003
Wolfensohn S E
Abstract excerpt
Deficiencies of dietary calcium and/or vitamin D will cause hypocalcaemia, leading to metabolic bone disease. The disease commonly affects young rapidly growing animals and this is a report of the condition in a colony of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). A clinical problem of metabolic bone disease was seen in 1993, when it was treated and resolved satisfactorily. However it recurred in 1999 following changes in...
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