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Fig. 1 | Porcine Health Management

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From: Investigations on the occurrence of a muscular disorder in Austrian slaughter pigs

Fig. 1

Histopathological and immunohistochemical investigations. a Skeletal muscle of a pig with fatty muscular dystrophy with diffuse infiltration of the interstitium (asterisk) with fat tissue and single fragmented muscle fiber (cross) (Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), bar = 160 µm). b Immunhistochemical staining of unchanged skeletal muscle of a control pig with continuous dystrophin expression in the sarcolemma (Immunohistochemistry (IHC), bar = 80 µm). c Immunhistochemical evidence of reduction to complete loss (arrowhead) of dystrophin expression in an affected pig (IHC, bar = 80 µm). d Dislocation of the dystrophin expression to the cytoplasm of muscle fibres (arrowhead) (IHC, bar = 80 µm)

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