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Breeding history of the Stanford colony of narcoleptic dogs.
The Veterinary record - 10 Jan 1998
Cederberg R, Nishino S, Dement W C, Mignot E
Abstract excerpt
Narcolepsy is a disabling sleep disorder of unknown aetiology. In humans, the disease is mostly sporadic, with a few familial cases having been reported. In 1973 a sporadic case of narcolepsy was reported in a poodle, and in 1975 familial cases of narcolepsy occurred in dobermanns. As with human narcoleptics, these narcoleptic dogs exhibited excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy. A colony of narcoleptic dogs...
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