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Oxidative stress and antioxidant enzyme upregulation in SOD1-G93A mouse skeletal muscle.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Jun 2006
Mahoney Douglas J, Kaczor Jan J, Bourgeois Jacqueline, Yasuda Nobuo, Tarnopolsky Mark A
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is caused by motor neuron loss in the spinal cord, but the mechanisms responsible are not known. Ubiquitous transgenic overexpression of copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) mutations causing familial ALS (SOD1mut) leads to an ALS phenotype in mice; however, restricted expression of SOD1mut in neurons alone is not sufficient to cause this phenotype, suggesting that...
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