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Age-dependent degeneration of an identified adult leg motor neuron in a Drosophila SOD1 model of ALS.
Biology open - 21 Oct 2020
Agudelo Anthony, St Amand Victoria, Grissom Lindsey, Lafond Danielle, Achilli Toni, Sahin Asli, Reenan Robert, Stilwell Geoff
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Mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in humans. ALS is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive motor neuron loss leading to paralysis and inevitable death in affected individuals. Using a gene replacement strategy to introduce disease mutations into the orthologous Drosophila sod1 (dsod1) gene, here, we characterize changes at the...
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