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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Thieme Revinter Publicações
2003-03-01
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| 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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