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Id: | 13584
| Author: | Storrs, Eleanor E; Binford, Chapman H; Migaki, George
| Title: | Animal model of human disease: lepromatous leprosy
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| Source: | s.l; s.n; sep. 1978. 4 p. ilus.
| Abstract: | The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcicnctus Linn)(Figure 1) is one of approximately 20 species of armadillos comprising several genera. They belong to the Edentata. D novemcinctus ranges from Central Argentina through Central America, Mexico, the Gulf States, and north-ward into Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Georgia. Among the characteristics which make this animal a useful research model for lepromatous leprosy a) low body temperature (32 to 35C), b) regular production of monozygotic quadruplet young, and c) a long life-spain (estimated to be 15 years). Other biologic characteristics are a) delayed (14 to 16 weeks) implantation period of the blastocyst, b) gestation period of approximately 9 months, c) ability to build up an oxygen debt, and d) occasional variability in band numbers.(AU).
| Descriptors: | HANSENIASE XENARTROS MODELOS ANIMAIS DE DOENCAS TATUS
| Limits: | ANIMAL SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S. SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.
| Electronic Medium: | http://www.ilsl.br
| Location: | BR191.1; 00212/s |
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