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White carneau pigeons spontaneously develop atherosclerosis similar to humans, whereas show racer pigeons are resistant, providing a useful model for studying the disease.
White carneau pigeons serve as a valuable non-primate animal model for studying spontaneous atherosclerosis due to its morphological similarity to human disease.
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May facilitate atherosclerosis research in an accessible avian model; leaves open prospective validation before translational use.
In the meat group of pigeons, white carneau is responsible to heartrelated disease atherosclerosis.Adequate published and online data on carneau pigeons (Plate 1) and show racer homer pigeons (Plate 2) explained this cardiac incident.Results suggested that both male and female white carneau pigeons from 1 to 13 years of age (3-4 years are vulnerable) exhibited atherosclerosis which is similar to human, so this bird can be a model to do more studies for human welfare.Highly rich feed at the time of intensive rearing and their age could lead this heartrelated problem.
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Ashraful Kabir (2025) conducted a review in Atherosclerosis. White carneau breed vs. Show racer breed was evaluated on Spontaneous atherosclerosis. White carneau pigeons spontaneously develop atherosclerosis similar to humans, whereas show racer pigeons are resistant, providing a useful model for studying the disease.
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