Beyond Motor Neurons in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: A Focus on Neuromuscular Junction.

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5q-Spinal muscular atrophy (5q-SMA) is one of the most common neuromuscular diseases due to homozygous mutations in the SMN1 gene. This leads to a loss of function of the SMN1 gene, which in the end determines lower motor neuron degeneration. Since the generation of the first mouse models of SMA neuropathology, a complex degenerative involvement of the neuromuscular junction and peripheral axons of motor nerves,...

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