Article
Pathogenic mechanisms in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis due to mutation of Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase.
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Jan 1996
Gurney M E, Cutting F B, Zhai P, Andrus P K, Hall E D
Abstract excerpt
Oxidative mechanisms of damage have been implicated indirectly in the damage to brain tissue caused acutely by ischemia or chronically by neurodegenerative diseases. A direct link between pathogenesis and antioxidant enzyme systems has come from studies of a genetic form of amyotrophic lateral sc...
Topics
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Animals
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Disorders
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21
- Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mutation
- Riluzole
- Superoxide Dismutase
- Thiazoles
- Vitamin E
