Spontaneous aorta and coronary lesions in mountain mammals. II. The chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra).
The study of the aorta and coronary arteries from 25 chamois shot in their mountain natural habitat allowed the observation that this animal is more exposed to liposclerotic lesions than other wild herbivorous mammals which live in the plain or at low altitudes. This observation is supported by both the frequency of the lesions (found in the coronary arteries of 14 animals and in the aorta of 10) and their morphologic and histochemical features. The author discusses the possible role of the relatively hypoxic condition, in which this animal lives at high altitudes, on the etiopathogeny of the above mentioned lesions.
D000531:Altitude; D000818:Animals; D000866:Antelopes; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000662:veterinary*; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000209:etiology; D001188:Artiodactyla; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000662:veterinary*; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications*