Abstract
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Two groups of chickens with hereditary muscular dystrophy were subjected to a high oxygen environment for 28 and 33 days respectively. Exhaustion numbers show that following removal from the oxygen enriched environment, the dystrophic birds were more like normal controls than dystro-phic controls and remained that way for 4 to 5 days. However, they subsequently exhibited the clinical signs of muscular dystrophy.
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