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Requirement of enhanced Survival Motoneuron protein imposed during neuromuscular junction maturation.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Feb 2014
Kariya Shingo, Obis Teresa, Garone Caterina, Akay Turgay, Sera Fusako, Iwata Shinichi, Homma Shunichi, Monani Umrao R
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy is a common motor neuron disease caused by low survival motoneuron (SMN), a key protein in the proper splicing of genes. Restoring the protein is therefore a promising therapeutic strategy. Implementation of this strategy, however, depends on defining the temporal requirements for SMN. Here, we used controlled knockdown of SMN in transgenic mice to determine the precise postnatal stage...
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