Reduced density of intramembrane particles in erythrocytes of dystrophic chickens.
The intramembrane particles in erythrocytes of chickens with hereditary muscular dystrophy and normal controls were compared by the freeze-fracture technique. Reduction of particles in both fracture faces and greater clustering of them was found in dystrophic samples. The concept of a generalized membrane abnormality in dystrophic chickens is supported.
D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D004910:Erythrocyte Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D009137:Muscular Dystrophy, Animal / Q000473:pathology*