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myelinopathy

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myelinopathy
general term used to include any disease of myelin; includes hypomyelination, dysmyelination, leukodystrophies, myelinolytic diseases, spongiform myelinopathies, encephalomyelinopathies.

feline spinal myelinopathy
an iodiopathic, adult-onset, progressive myelin loss in the spinal cord in Californian cats.


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Autopsy showed spongy myelinopathy, intramyelinic edema, and foamy macrophages, with minimal brain stem and cerebellum involvement.
Researchers at the University of Georgia are working to determine the cause of Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy which has killed eagles and other birds in four states, which is currently unknown.
However, the discovery of the disease in other waterfowl species in 1999 prompted a change; the disease is now called Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy, or AVM.
 
 
 
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