title: Survey on spontaneous peripheral neuropathy in aging mice.
abstract: The incidence of peripheral neuropathy in CD-1 mice (caesarean-derived) obtained from long term studies over a 10 year period is reported. The survey included peripheral nerve samples of 15,223 males and 15,075 females. The incidence of peripheral neuropathy is 8% in untreated males and 12% in untreated females aged 80 to 104 weeks. The total incidence in all mice in the survey was higher in females than males and was age-related. The present survey also showed interstrain differences. The peripheral neuropathy in CD-1 strain was low in incidence compared to B6C3F1 (cross between C57 BL/C6NCLB and C3H/HENCRLB). The peripheral neuropathy was spontaneous in origin and was age-related.
authors.affiliation: Huntingdon Research Centre Ltd., Pathology Department, Cambridgeshire, England.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Majeed
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000473:pathology*