Demyelinating Peripheral Neuropathy in a Guinea Hen Associated with Subacute Lead Intoxication
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Avian Diseases
- Vol. 22 (2) , 344-349
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1589548
Abstract
In mammalian species lead acts primarily as a neurotoxin. Pb poisoning is common in avian species but lesions in the nervous system were not associated with it. A peripheral neuropathy with fragmentation and segmental demyelination of fibers in the sciatic nerves of an adult guinea hen (Numida meleagris) which died of Pb poisoning.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effect of Lead Intoxication on the Postnatal Growth of the Rat Nervous SystemEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1974
- Experimental Acute Lead Encephalopathy in the Juvenile Rhesus MonkeyEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1974