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Gigaxonin mutation analysis in patients with NIFID.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Aug 2011
Dequen Florence, Cairns Nigel J, Bigio Eileen H, Julien Jean-Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease (NIFID) is a frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) characterized by frontotemporal dementia (FTD), pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs. The disease is histologically characterized by the presence of abnormal neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions (NCIs) which contain α-internexin and other neuronal intermediate filament (IF) proteins. Gigaxonin (GAN) is a cytoskeletal...
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