title: Comparison of dy and dy2J, two alleles expressing forms of muscular dystrophy in the mouse.
abstract: The muscular dystrophies caused by dy and dy2J on a C57BL/6J genetic background are similar in quality. At 1 month, slight differences occur in distribution of the muscle lesions, diffuse and focal, respectively, but at 3 months little, if any, differences exist. The dy dystrophy appears the same histologically on either the C57BL/6J or original 129/ReJ and 129B6F backgrounds.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009137:Muscular Dystrophy, Animal / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology