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The mood stabilizer valproic acid improves defective neurite formation caused by Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease-associated mutant Rab7 through the JNK signaling pathway.
Journal of neuroscience research - 1 Nov 2010
Yamauchi Junji, Torii Tomohiro, Kusakawa Shinji, Sanbe Atsushi, Nakamura Kazuaki, Takashima Shou, Hamasaki Hajime, Kawaguchi Shogo, Miyamoto Yuki, Tanoue Akito
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is the most frequent peripheral neuropathy affecting the Schwann cells and neurons. CMT disease type 2 (CMT2) neuropathies are characterized by peripheral nerve aberrance. Four missense mutations of Rab7, a small GTPase of the Rab family involved in intracellular vesicular trafficking, are associated with the CMT2B phenotype. Despite a growing body of evidence concerning the gene...
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