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Spontaneous Radiculoneuropathy, Aged Rats

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Nervous System

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In the advanced stage of this age-related disease, atrophy of the skeletal muscles is apparent in the lumbar region and the hindlimbs (Burek 1978). The vital fat stain Sudan III, administered orally 12 h before the autopsy, will demonstrate the focal accumulation of lipid within the spinal nerve roots as macroscopically discernible red patches (Krinke 1983).

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  1. Georg J. Krinke
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  1. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA, 01772, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) & Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) &  (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

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Krinke, G.J. (1988). Spontaneous Radiculoneuropathy, Aged Rats. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Nervous System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83516-2_35

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