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DOUBLE MUSCLING IN CATTLE AND MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA IN PIGS : COMMON FEATURES h es France. o Department of Animal S-7j 07 Uppsala 7, Sweden and Station de Génétique quantitative et sl A ., 35q8 Genetics Nutvition and Hygiene, Royal Double Muscling (Hereditary Muscular Hypertrophy) is an inherited condition resulting from hyperplasia and logical and ultrastructural studies of both normal and affected cattle have indicated that the most consistent feature of this syndrome is a disruption of the sarcolemma and other membrane components of the muscle. Osmotic response tests on erythrocytes revealed that erythrocytes from double muscled cattle were more sensitive to osmotic shock and have suggested that the cell membrane defect is not specific to muscle cells. Muscle biopsy cultures of normal and in vitro muscle differentiation occurred rapid in the latter than those of normal, have suggested that the cell membrane defect is a primary rather than a secondary lesion. condition of stress susceptibility (Malignant Hyperthermia) which exists in heavily bears close resemblance at the histological and ultrastructural level to double muscling syndrome in cattle. When exposed to halothane anesthetic, affected pigs exhibit gross muscular rigidity, rapid rise in body temperature, accelerated pulse, hyperventilation, blotchy cyanosis, metabolic acidosis and rapid rise in concentration of serum electrolytes. Osmo- tic response tests conducted on erythrocytes collected from Belgian Landvace pigs which reacted positively and negatively to exposure to halothane anesthetic revealed that increased osmotic fragility of erythrocytes is a consistent feature of the Malignant Hyperthermia syndrome. THE EFFICIENCY OF MARKER J. CONNOLLY, E. P. CUNNINGHAM. - Marker (or reference) sires are frequently used to provide a link between A. I. testing centres, particulaily where the sires being tested are used at only one This paper examines the efficien