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The unfolded protein response in vanishing white matter disease.
Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology - 1 Sept 2005
van der Voorn J Patrick, van Kollenburg Barbara, Bertrand Gesina, Van Haren Keith, Scheper Gert C, Powers James M, van der Knaap Marjo S
Abstract excerpt
Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter (VWM) is an autosomal-recessive disorder in which febrile infections may provoke major neurologic deterioration. Characteristic pathologic findings include cystic white matter degeneration, foamy oligodendrocytes, dysmorphic astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, oligodendrocytosis, and apoptotic losses of oligodendrocytes. VWM is caused by mutations in eukaryotic...
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