Transgenic mouse model for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with superoxide dismutase-1 mutation

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Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with mutations in the gene for superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) is clinicopathologically reproduced by transgenic mice expressing mutant forms of SOD1 detectable in familial ALS patients. Motor neuron degeneration associated with SOD1 mutation has been thought to result from a novel neurotoxicity of mutant SOD1, but not from a reduction in activity of this enzyme, based...

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