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Treatment of spinal muscular atrophy by sodium butyrate.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Aug 2001
Chang J G, Hsieh-Li H M, Jong Y J, Wang N M, Tsai C H, Li H
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by degeneration of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, leading to muscular paralysis with muscular atrophy. No effective treatment of this disorder is presently available. Studies of the correlation between disease severity and the amount of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein have shown an inverse relationship. We report that...
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