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Progressive changes in synaptic inputs to motoneurons in adult sacral spinal cord of a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 2 Dec 2009
Jiang Mingchen, Schuster Jenna E, Fu Ronggen, Siddique Teepu, Heckman C J
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by progressive degeneration of motoneurons. One potential mechanism is excitotoxicity. We studied the behaviors of spinal neurons using an in vitro preparation of the sacral cord from the G93A SOD1 mouse model of ALS. Measurements were conducted at presymptomatic [approximately postnatal day 50 (approximately P50)], early (approximately P90), and late (>P120)...
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