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Defining the therapeutic window in a severe animal model of spinal muscular atrophy.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Sept 2014
Robbins Kate L, Glascock Jacqueline J, Osman Erkan Y, Miller Madeline R, Lorson Christian L
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the loss of a single gene, Survival Motor Neuron-1 (SMN1). Administration of a self-complementary Adeno-Associated Virus vector expressing full-length SMN cDNA (scAAV-SMN) has proven an effective means to rescue the SMA phenotype in SMA mice, either by intravenous (IV) or intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration at very early time points....
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