Hypothyroid myopathy in two dogs. Academic Article

abstract

• Biopsy specimens of skeletal muscle and peripheral nerve from two dogs with primary hypothyroidism but without clinical neuromuscular disease were studied with histological, histochemical and morphometric techniques. The most prominent change in skeletal muscle was variation in fiber size associated with a pronounced reduction in mean diameter of type II fibers. Type II fiber loss was apparent in the specimen from one dog. No histological or morphometric differences were noted in nerves from either dog compared with an age-matched control. The myopathic findings suggest a preferential metabolic defect in type II muscle fibers.

authors

• August, John

published proceedings

• Vet Pathol

author list (cited authors)

• Braund, K. G., Dillon, A. R., August, J. R., & Ganjam, V. K.

citation count

• 35

complete list of authors

• Braund, KG||Dillon, AR||August, JR||Ganjam, VK

publication date

• September 1981

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Veterinary Pathology  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Dog Diseases
• Dogs
• Female
• Hypothyroidism
• Muscular Atrophy
• Neuromuscular Diseases

PubMed Central ID

• 7281458

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/030098588101800503

start page

• 589

end page

• 598

volume

• 18

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030098588101800503