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Postnatal dendritic development in lumbar motoneurons in mutant superoxide dismutase 1 mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Neuroscience - 3 May 2012
Filipchuk A A, Durand J
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by motoneuron (MN) degeneration and muscle paralysis. Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) mutant mice develop an ALS-like phenotype similar to that seen in human. Recently it has been shown in SOD1 mice that the excitability and morphology of spinal MNs are altered at postnatal age, long before overt clinical symptoms. In the...
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