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- The study focused on skeletal muscle myocytes in an adult female pygmy sperm whale, measuring the abundance of sarcoplasmic masses.
- Findings suggest that these masses are linked to muscle diseases, particularly myotonic dystrophy, which is often associated with such conditions in other species.
- Additional muscle changes included a high count of internal nuclei, variations in fiber size and shape, and a predominance of type I muscle fibers.
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We measured the abundance of sarcoplasmic masses within skeletal muscle myocytes of an adult female stranded pigmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). The presence of these masses in other species has been reported in association with myopathies, including myotonic dystrophy, the most frequently related pathology. Other histopathologic muscle changes included a high number of internal nuclei, variations in fiber size and shape, and the predominance of type I fibers.
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