Neurodegenerative disease. Oxidative stress and motorneuron disease.

doi:10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00237-2

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Neurodegenerative disease. Oxidative stress and motorneuron disease.

Current biology : CB - 1 Nov 1994

Sendtner M, Thoenen H

Abstract excerpt

Transgenic mice carrying mutated Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase genes provide insights into the pathogenesis of human motorneuron diseases and may be useful as models in the development and testing of therapies.

Topics

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Animals
Humans
Mice
Mice, Transgenic
Models, Molecular
Molecular Structure
Motor Neuron Disease
Mutation
Nerve Degeneration
Oxidative Stress
Superoxide Dismutase

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