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[ALS and microglia--a player for non-cell-autonomous neuron death].
Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo - 1 Oct 2007
Yamanaka Koji, Yamashita Hirofumi
Abstract excerpt
Dominant mutation in the gene of superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) leads to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an adult-onset progressive fatal motor neuron disease. Recent progress in research on ALS has been made by the use of transgenic mouse model of familial ALS, which expresses mutant form of SOD1 and recapitulates the phenotype and pathology of motor neuron disease. There is accumulating evidence indicating...
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