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Slow development of ALS-like spinal cord pathology in mutant valosin-containing protein gene knock-in mice.
Cell death & disease - 16 Aug 2012
Yin H Z, Nalbandian A, Hsu C-I, Li S, Llewellyn K J, Mozaffar T, Kimonis V E, Weiss J H
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Pathological features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) include, in addition to selective motor neuron (MN) degeneration, the occurrence of protein aggregates, mitochondrial dysfunction and astrogliosis. SOD1 mutations cause rare familial forms of ALS and have provided the most widely studied animal models. Relatively recent studies implicating another protein, TDP-43, in familial and sporadic forms of ALS...
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