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[Development of therapeutics for spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA)].
Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology - 1 Nov 2003
Sobue Gen
Abstract excerpt
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), also known as Kennedy's disease, is a hereditary motor neuron disease that affects males, caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) tract in androgen receptor (AR). Female carriers are usually asymptomatic. The transgenic mouse (Tg) model carrying a full-length human AR with expanded polyQ has significant gender-related motor impairment. This phenotype is...
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