Acatalasemia

LABOKLIN Service ID: 8552

Acatalasemia is characterized by the deficiency of the enzyme catalase which is important for cellular defence in oxidative stress. Affected dogs suffer from ulcers and tissue death in the oral cavity. The disease has only been recognised in a laboratory colony of Beagle dogs. The acatalasemia phenotype caught particular interest as an animal model of a human condition called Takahara’s disease.

Method

TaqMan SNP Assay

Breed list

Beagle

Heredity

autosomal recessive

Duration

3-5 working days after arrival of the sample in the lab