Article Commentary: Acquired Equine Motor Neuron Disease

Acquired equine motor neuron disease.

Equine motor neuron disease (EMND) is an acquired neuromuscular disease of horses that was first recognized in 1985 and reported in a preliminary report often horses in 1 990.3 The disease is characterized pathologically by degeneration of motor neurons in the ventral horns of the spinal cord and in selected brain stem nuclei. Death of motor neurons results in secondary axonal degeneration and ...

Four cases of equine motor neuron disease in Japan

In this study, fasciculation of the limbs and tongue was observed in four horses kept by a riding club. Neurogenic muscle atrophy was also observed in biopsy of pathological tissues. In addition, in two cases that subjected to autopsy, Bunina-like bodies of inclusion in the cell bodies of neurons in the spinal cord ventral horn were confirmed, leading to a diagnosis of equine motor neuron disea...

Vitamin E deficiency and risk of equine motor neuron disease

BACKGROUND Equine motor neuron disease (EMND) is a spontaneous neurologic disorder of adult horses which results from the degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain stem. Clinical manifestations, pathological findings, and epidemiologic attributes resemble those of human motor neuron disease (MND). As in MND the etiology of the disease is not known. We evaluated the predispositi...

Concurrent Equine Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy and Equine Motor Neuron Disease in Three Young Horses

Neurodegenerative Diseases of Horses: Equine Motor Neuron Disease and Equine Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy