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Non-cell-autonomous effect of human SOD1 G37R astrocytes on motor neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells.
Cell stem cell - 4 Dec 2008
Marchetto Maria C N, Muotri Alysson R, Mu Yangling, Smith Alan M, Cezar Gabriela G, Gage Fred H
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron death. ALS can be induced by mutations in the superoxide dismutase 1 gene (SOD1). Evidence for the non-cell-autonomous nature of ALS emerged from the observation that wild-type glial cells extended the survival of SOD1 mutant motor neurons in chimeric mice. To uncover the contribution of astrocytes to human motor...
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