PROGRESSIVE ATAXIA IN A CAPTIVE NORTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER (LONTRA CANADENSIS) ASSOCIATED WITH BRAIN STEM SPHEROID FORMATION

Elvira Schettler; Kerstin Müller; Guido Fritsch; Stefan Kaiser; Leo Brunnberg; Kai Frölich; Gudrun Wibbelt

doi:10.1638/MS05-054.1

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Elvira Schettler, Kerstin Müller, Guido Fritsch, Stefan Kaiser, Leo Brunnberg, Kai Frölich, Gudrun Wibbelt

Abstract

Progressive ataxia, particularly of the hind limbs, developed in a paretic female juvenile captive North American river otter (Lontra canadensis). Severe bilaterally symmetrical axonal degeneration in the medulla oblongata (nucleus gracilis and nucleus cuneatus) and multiple scattered spheroids in the region of the pons were detected microscopically. This is the first description of ataxia associated with axonal degeneration in otters.

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Elvira Schettler, Kerstin Müller, Guido Fritsch, Stefan Kaiser, Leo Brunnberg, Kai Frölich, and Gudrun Wibbelt "PROGRESSIVE ATAXIA IN A CAPTIVE NORTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER (LONTRA CANADENSIS) ASSOCIATED WITH BRAIN STEM SPHEROID FORMATION," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 38(4), 579-582, (1 December 2007). https://doi.org/10.1638/MS05-054.1

Received: 25 August 2005; Published: 1 December 2007

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