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Hereditary hypotrophic axonopathy with neurofilament deficiency in a mutant strain of the Japanese quail.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Jan 1991
Yamasaki H, Itakura C, Mizutani M
Abstract excerpt
A primary axonal disease affecting the central and peripheral nervous system was discovered in a new mutant strain of the Japanese quail, named quiver (Quv). Quv showed significantly smaller cross-sectional areas of the cervical spinal cord and the optic and sciatic nerves, when compared with controls by light microscopic morphometry. In the cervical spinal cord, electron microscopic morphometry indicated that...
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