Glycogenosis in the dog
Rafiquzzaman, M.; Svenkerud, R.; Strande, A.; Hauge, J.G.
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 17(2): 196-209
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-605X PMID: 1066041 Document Number: 103978
Four cases of a generalized form of glycogenosis occurring in German Shepherd dogs, all females, are described. Symptoms could be noticed as early as the age of two months and progressed slowly for months. They appeared as dizziness, muscular weakness, and in two of the cases as poor nutritional state. The abdomen became gradually distended. The main P.M. lesion was a greatly increased liver size with some moderate liver fibrosis. Heavy deposits of a granular substance behaving as glycogen in histochemical tests and at electron microscopy were found in the hepatic cells, muscle fibres of the heart, skeletal and smooth muscles, and in nerve and glial cells of the central nervous system. The substance was lying freely dispersed in the cell cytoplasm without any indication of lysosomal storage. The disease of dogs does not seem to be fully comparable with any of the types observed in man, but is probably more related to Type III or Cori's disease.