Prenatal onset of axonopathy in Dystonia musculorum mice.

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Dystonia musculorum (dt) is a recessive hereditary neuropathy of the mouse. Affected animals display loss of limb coordination and twisting of the trunk. Sensory nerve fibers of these mice are severely reduced in number, and the remaining fibers present numerous axonal swellings. The gene defective in dt, dystonin (Dst), encodes a cytoskeletal linker protein that forms the bridge between F-actin and intermediate...

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