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Sensory involvement in the SOD1-G93A mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Experimental & molecular medicine - 31 Mar 2009
Guo Yan Su, Wu Dong Xia, Wu Hong Ran, Wu Shu Yu, Yang Cheng, Li Bin, Bu Hui, Zhang Yue Sheng, Li Chun Yan
Abstract excerpt
A subset of patients of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) present with mutation of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1), and such mutants caused an ALS- like disorder when expressed in rodents. These findings implicated SOD1 in ALS pathogenesis and made the transgenic animals a widely used ALS model. However, previous studies of these animals have focused largely on motor neuron damage. We report herein that the...
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