Abstract
An epizootic of flaccid trunk paralysis began in free-ranging Zimbabwean elephants (Loxodonta africana) on the southern shore of Lake Kariba in 1989. It involved a selective neuropathy of peripheral nerves supplying the trunk, with axon and myelin degeneration, muscle atrophy, compensatory hypertrophy, and fine endomyseal fibrosis, without inflammatory changes.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Brain / pathology
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Disease Outbreaks / veterinary*
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Elephants*
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Female
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Male
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred BALB C
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Muscle Hypotonia
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Muscle, Skeletal / innervation
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Muscle, Skeletal / pathology
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Muscular Atrophy / etiology
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Muscular Atrophy / veterinary
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Nose / innervation*
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Paralysis / epidemiology
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Paralysis / etiology
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Paralysis / pathology
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Paralysis / veterinary*
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Peripheral Nerves / pathology
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Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / complications
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Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / epidemiology
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Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / pathology
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Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / veterinary*
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Zimbabwe / epidemiology