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7417782

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1980-12-18
pubmed:abstractText
A new inherited neurological disease in the mouse (the mutant twitcher) has been studied. Transmission is by an autosomal recessive gene (twi). Affected animals are apparently normal at birth but develop a generalized tremor at about 3 weeks of age followed by progressive weakness and wasting. The disease is fatal by 3 months. The principal pathological changes affect the myelin of both central and peripheral nervous systems. Degeneration of myelin sheaths and the presence of multinucleated macrophages with PAS-positive cytoplasm are characteristic findings. Peripheral nerves show remyelination following demyelination. Electron microscopically the macrophages contain a variety of inclusions in which there are crystalline and multi-angular structures and twisted tubules. The abnormalities closely resemble those found in globoid cell leucodystrophy (Krabbe's disease) in man.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0006-8950
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
103
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
695-710
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Hereditary leucodystrophy in the mouse: the new mutant twitcher.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.