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Chronic BMAA exposure combined with TDP-43 mutation elicits motor neuron dysfunction phenotypes in mice.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Jun 2023
Arnold F J, Burns M, Chiu Y, Carvalho J, Nguyen A D, Ralph P C, La Spada A R, Bennett C L
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease with an average age-of-onset of ∼60 years and is usually fatal within 2-5 years of diagnosis. Mouse models based upon single gene mutations do not recapitulate all ALS pathological features. Environmental insults may also contribute to ALS, and β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) is an environmental toxin linked with an increased risk of developing...
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