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Kuru, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, is a disease of the nervous system that causes physiological and neurological effects which ultimately lead to death. It is characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia, or loss of coordination and control over muscle movements. [11] [12]
Hamster populations can act as reservoir hosts. Other rodents including guinea pigs, rats and chinchillas can be infected but do not appear to maintain the virus. [7] LCMV has been shown to cause illness in New World primates such as macaques, marmosets and tamarins. [7] Infections have also been reported in rabbits, dogs and pigs. [7]
Sewall Wright described twelve grades of otocephaly in guinea pigs. [3] Grades 1 to 5 were isolated agnathia with no neurological defects. Grades 6 to 9 featured severe holoprosencephaly. Grades 10 to 12 featured aprosopus (absence of the face and most of the head) with absence of the prosencephalon and mesencephalon.
Again, as a human guinea pig, he went up many times in a Douglas Dauntless dive bomber with an Army pilot, flying in spirals over Rochester, Minnesota, to determine if g-suits were effective. Without a suit he had 27 episodes of unconsciousness, with a total of 7.7 minutes of lack of perfusion, [ 3 ] while the suited pilot was unaffected. [ 4 ]
Guinea pig: 43,510,000 ± 3,169,924 [43] Isotropic fractionator Pallium (cortex) Cavia porcellus [40] Quebracho crested tinamou: 48,292,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (DVR) Eudromia formosa [34] Common wood pigeon: 51,325,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (DVR) Columba palumbus [34] Elegant crested tinamou: 51,384,000 Isotropic ...
The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy (/ ˈ k eɪ v i / KAY-vee), is a species of rodent belonging to the genus Cavia, family Caviidae. Breeders tend to use the name "cavy" for the animal, but "guinea pig" is more commonly used in scientific and laboratory contexts. [ 1 ]
They identified the cause of this neurological disease to be long-term occupational exposure to aerosolized porcine brain and spinal tissue. [8] Investigators from the Minnesota Department of Health simultaneously determined that the air pressure jet system used to extract the brain from pig carcasses was unsafe, as it would create an airborne ...
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...