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Transgenic models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Folia neuropathologica - 1 Jan 2004
Grieb Paweł
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most frequent paralytic disease of adults, is untreatable and invariably fatal. Up to 20% of ALS cases are inherited (familial, fALS) and associated with mutations, usually of the superoxide dismutase type 1 (SOD-1) gene. This paper shortly reviews the background for and the use of rodent transgenic models of ALS. Silencing the SOD-1 gene does not produce paralytic...
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