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Structural study of skeletal muscle fibres in healthy and pseudomyotonia affected cattle.
Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft - 1 Sept 2016
Mascarello Francesco, Sacchetto Roberta
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Cattle congenital pseudomyotonia (PMT), recognized as naturally occurring animal model of human Brody disease, is an inherited recessive autosomal muscular disorder due to missense mutations in ATP2A1 gene, encoding sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase protein, isoform 1 (SERCA1). PMT has been described in the Chianina and Romagnola italian cattle breeds and as a single case in Dutch improved Red and White...
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