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Up-regulated inflammatory signatures of the spinal cord in canine degenerative myelopathy.
Research in veterinary science - 1 Mar 2021
Hashimoto Kei, Kobatake Yui, Asahina Ryota, Yamato Osamu, Islam Md Shafiqul, Sakai Hiroki, Nishida Hidetaka, Maeda Sadatoshi, Kamishina Hiroaki
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Canine degenerative myelopathy (DM) is an adult-onset fatal disease characterized by progressive degeneration of the spinal cord. Affected dogs have homozygous mutations in superoxide dismutase 1, and thus DM is a potential spontaneous animal model of human familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Neuroinflammation is the pathological hallmark of ALS, whereby proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines are...
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