Article
Kennedy's disease: clinical presentation and laboratory diagnosis.
Clinical and experimental neurology - 1 Jan 1993
Faragher M W, Choi W T, MacLean H E, Warne G L, Zajac J D
Abstract excerpt
Kennedy's disease is a form of progressive spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy of adult onset. This paper describes a case of Kennedy's disease and discusses the laboratory diagnosis and the underlying genetic mechanism. Three other neurological diseases, Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy a...
Topics
- Aged
- Clinical Laboratory Techniques
- Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
- Exons
- Humans
- Male
- Motor Neuron Disease
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Receptors, Androgen