Article
Leukocyte cell populations in hereditary muscular dystrophic chickens.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Dietert R R, Sanders B G
Abstract excerpt
Adult hereditary muscular dystrophic (MD) chickens were compared with normal chickens for properties of the reticuloendothelial and lymphoid systems. Storrs strain MD chickens exhibited elevated levels of blood heterophils with reduced lymphocytes compared with normal Hyline SC strain chickens. Of the lymphocytes, MD chickens possessed a greater incidence of E-rosette forming cells than were present in SC adults....
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Chickens
- Gene Frequency
- Leukocytes
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal
- Species Specificity