Bald thigh syndrome in sighthounds-Revisiting the cause of a well-known disease.

Bald thigh syndrome is a common hair loss disorder in sighthounds. Numerous possible causes, including environmental conditions, trauma, stress, endocrinopathies and genetic components have been proposed, but only endocrinopathies have been ruled out scientifically. The overall goal of our study was...

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Main Authors: Magdalena A T Brunner, Silvia Rüfenacht, Anina Bauer, Susanne Erpel, Natasha Buchs, Sophie Braga-Lagache, Manfred Heller, Tosso Leeb, Vidhya Jagannathan, Dominique J Wiener, Monika M Welle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212645