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Congenital myotonia, characteristic of Fainting Goats, is a heritable neuromuscular disorder characterized by a slow relaxation of skeletal muscles following voluntary contraction. The sudden muscle stiffness often causes the animal to fall over briefly.
The myotonic goat or Tennessee fainting goat is an American breed of goat. It is characterised by myotonia congenita , a hereditary condition that may cause it to stiffen or fall over when excited or startled.
5 lis 2009 · The Men Who Stare at Goats features a goat that keels over when a soldier stares at it. Many ascribe this to it being a particular breed of goat prone to fainting. As part of the Jon Ronson...
Fainting Goats are a goat breed that keel over and ‘faint’ when startled, excited or surprised. This hereditary condition in fainting goats is called Myotonia Congenita (muscle stiffening), which causes muscles to become rigid instead of relaxing when a goat is alarmed. They belong to the Bovidae family (hooved animal).
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2 maj 2020 · Chloride channel myotonia also occurs spontaneously in animals, including goat, mouse, dog, cat, pony, water buffalo, and pig [64, 132].
Myotonia congenita in goats is due to an autosomal dominant mutation that has incomplete penetrance in the skeletal muscle chloride channel. Goats with this mutation have been selected for as a breed and are commonly referred to as “fainting goats.”
