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Exacerbation of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2E neuropathy following traumatic nerve injury.
Brain research - 19 Nov 2015
Villalón Eric, Dale Jeffrey M, Jones Maria, Shen Hailian, Garcia Michael L
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is the most commonly inherited peripheral neuropathy. CMT disease signs include distal limb neuropathy, abnormal gait, sensory defects, and deafness. We generated a novel line of CMT2E mice expressing hNF-L(E397K), which displayed muscle atrophy of the lower limbs without denervation, proximal reduction in large caliber axons, and decreased nerve conduction velocity. In this...
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