Population
2-year-old male Belgian sheepdog with eosinophilic myositis and normal/neuromuscular disease control dogs
Comparison
Serum testing for muscle-specific autoantibodies… vs Sera from normal dogs or neuromuscular disease…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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May support autoimmune etiology in canine eosinophilic myositis; hypothesis-generating for human masticatory myositis and requires validation.
The study identifies autoantibodies to specific temporalis muscle proteins in a dog with eosinophilic myositis, suggesting an autoimmune mechanism for the localized myonecrosis.
Shelton et al. (1985) studied this question.
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