Absence of the mutant SOD1 in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) with two base pair deletion in the SOD1 gene

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 167-172

  Watanabe, Y ^a,b   Kuno, N ^a   Kono, Y ^c   Nanba, E ^b   Ohama, E ^a   Nakashima, K ^a   Takahashi, K ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

activity staining; diethyl dithiocarbamate (DDC); familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS); single strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP); western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MESSENGER RNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MALE; MUTANT; MUTATION;

EID: 0030941967     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1997.tb00090.x     Document Type: Article

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