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Caloric restriction transiently improves motor performance but hastens clinical onset of disease in the Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase mutant G93A mouse.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Feb 2005
Hamadeh Mazen J, Rodriguez M Christine, Kaczor Jan J, Tarnopolsky Mark A
Abstract excerpt
Caloric restriction (CR) prolongs lifespan in insects, rodents, and nonhuman primates, a process attributed to a reduction in oxidative stress. Transgenic mice that overexpress the mutant human Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene (G93A mice) are an animal model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis showing progressively lower motor neuron weakness and increased oxidative stress. We investigated the effect of CR on...
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