Neuropathology of experimental vitamin B 12 deficiency in monkeys
- 1 October 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 26 (10), 905
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.26.10.905
Abstract
We have produced severe vitamin B12 deficiency in rhesus monkeys by feeding them a defined experimental diet under controlled conditions. Five years after institution of the deficient diet, the morphology and counts of peripheral blood and bone marrow are normal. Gross visual impairment appeared in five of the monkeys between 33 and 45 months after the Institution of the vitamin B12 deficient diet. Subsequently, in three of the visually impaired animals, a gradually progressive spastic paralysis of their hind limbs developed. Autopsies of six deficient animals showed degeneration of the peripheral visual pathway in all and of white matter in the spinal cord in four. Degeneration of several cranial nerve roots was found in four monkeys and a mild diffuse degeneration of cerebral white matter in four. The lesions in all affected parts of the central nervous system were bilaterally symmetrical and were indistinguishable from those due to B12 deficiency in the human. No abnormalities were found in one B12 supplemented control animal.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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