Heritability of Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency in German Shepherd Dogs
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Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in dogs and cats
In exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) there is insufficient production or secretion of digestive enzymes by the pancreas with associated maldigestion. Usually multiple enzymes need to be affected to show clinical disease, although there is one report of a patient with a lipase-only defect. Since lipase is the rate-limiting enzyme in pancreatic digestion, deficiency in just that single enzy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0891-6640,1939-1676
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2009.0461.x