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[Proximal axonal injuries as experimental models for adult motoneuron degeneration].
Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo - 1 Oct 2007
Watabe Kazuhiko
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder characterized by selective loss of motoneurons leading to progressive paralysis and death by respiratory failure. Since the discovery of the mutation of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene in patients with familial ALS, transgenic mice and rats expressing human mutant SOD1 have been the most widely used experimental models to...
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