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A Comparative Study

R. H. RIGDON, MD; GLENN A. DRAGER, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(4):586-597.

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A spontaneously occurring myopathy that resembles in many ways muscular dystrophy in man has been observed in a strain of white Pekin ducks.^1,2 Of these ducks, 10% developed contractures, usually between the 7th and 21st day of life, in one or both extremities.³ Many had muscular weakness and morphologic changes in the muscle without contractures. The histologic lesions in the striated muscle were characterized by focal areas of necrosis within individual muscle fibers.^1-3 Genetic studies now in progress would suggest that transmittal does occur.

A variety of agents have produced degenerative lesions in the striated muscle of different laboratory animals: irradiation,^4,5 a chemical,⁶ bacterial infections,⁷ viruses,⁸ vitamin deficiency,⁹ and massive doses of cortisone.^10,11 A genetic disease has been described in which there are degenerative lesions in the striated muscle of the mouse,¹² hamster,^13,14 and chicken.^15-17

Progressive muscular dystrophy . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
GALVESTON, TEX

Professor of Pathology (Dr. Rigdon); Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry (Dr. Drager).; Departments of pathology and neurology and psychiatry, The University of Texas Medical Branch.

Footnotes
Received for publication Sept 5, 1963; accepted Sept 17.

This study was supported by US Public Health Service grant NB-02951-03, from the National Institutes of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, and by the Liberty Muscular Dystrophy Foundation.

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