Arteriosclerosis and related lesions in rabbits.
Date
1989-10Author
Ngatia, TA
Mugera, GM
Njiro, SM
Kuria, JK
Carles, AB
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Eleven female rabbits, mainly of the NZW breed, aged between 1 and 3.5 years, were examined post mortem. All had originated over the years 1982 to 1987 from the same rabbitry where they had been fed on pellets from the same manufacturer. Apart from one rabbit, all had a history of progressive loss of bodily condition and six of them had also been infertile. Grossly, most of them were emaciated and their arteries were hardened. In some, hepatopathy, nephropathy and pulmonary emphysema were evident. In one case, mummified foetuses were recovered from the abdominal cavity. Microscopically, degenerative changes and calcification were found in the walls of arteries, kidneys, lungs, hearts and ovaries.
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http://hinari-gw.who.int/whalecomwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/2584447http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/33376
Citation
J Comp Pathol. 1989 Oct;101(3):279-86.Publisher
University of Nairobi. Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya.