Article
The myelin mutants as models to study myelin repair in the leukodystrophies.
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics - 1 Oct 2011
Duncan Ian D, Kondo Yoichi, Zhang Su-Chun
Abstract excerpt
The leukodystrophies are rare and serious genetic disorders of the central nervous system that primarily affect children who frequently die early in life or have significantly delayed motor and mental milestones that result in long-term disability. Although with some of these disorders, early intervention with bone marrow or cord blood transplantation has been proven useful, it has not yet been determined that...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Transplantation
- Demyelinating Diseases
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mutation
- Myelin Sheath
