Pharmacological, morphological and behavioral analysis of motor impairment in experimentally vitamin C deficient guinea pigs

The scurvy shows an inflammatory disease and gingival bleeding. Nevertheless, in an animal model for guinea pigs, described by Den Hartog Jager in 1985, scurvy was associated with a motor neuron disease with demyelinization of the pyramidal tract, provoking neurogenic atrophy of muscles. Aiming at s...

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Main Authors: Reinaldo Barreto Oriá, Carlos Maurício de Castro Costa, Terezinha de Jesus Teixeira Santos, Carlos Meton de Alencar G. Vieira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2003-03-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2003000100005&tlng=en
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