Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A lesson in deficiency diseases

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 81-84

  Harris, Edward D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEGENERATION; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; NEUROTOXICITY; NUTRITION; OXIDATION;

EID: 0031978143     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1998.tb01698.x     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Heads T, Pollock M, Robertson A, et al. Sensory nerve pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Acta Neuropathol 1991;82:316-20
2. Siddique TS, Figlewicz MA, Pericak-Vance JL, et al. Linkage of a gene causing familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to chromosome 21 and evidence of genetic locus heterogeneity. N Engl J Med 1991;324:1381-4
3. Rosen DR, Saddique D, Patterson DA, et al. Mutations in Cu/Zn Superoxide dismutase gene are associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Nature 1993;362:59-62
4. Cohen O, Kohen R, Lavon E, et al. Serum Cu/Zn Superoxide dismutase activity is reduced in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. J Neurol Sci 1996;143:118-20
5. Brown RH Jr. Superoxide dismutase and oxidative stress in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In: Oxidative stress and the molecular biology of antioxidant defenses. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1997;569-86
6. Sapp P, Hosler B, Rosen D, et al. Three novel mutations in cytosolic Superoxide dismutase (SOD1) in patients with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neuromuscul Disord 1995;5:353-7
7. Cudkowicz ME, McKenna-Yasek D, Sapp PE, et al. Epidemiology of mutations in Superoxide dismutase in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Ann Neurol 1997;41: 210-21
8. Morita M, Aoki M, Abe K, et al. A novel two-base mutation in the Cu/Zn Superoxide dismutase gene associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Japan. Neurosci Letts 1996;205:79-82
9. Reaume A, Elliott E, Hofman N, et al. Motor neurons in Cu/Zn Superoxide dismutase-deficient mice develop normally but exhibit enhanced cell death after axonal injury. Nat Genet 1996;13:43-7
10. Brown, RH Jr. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: recent insights from genetics and transgenic mice. Cell 1995;80:687-92
11. Kunst CB, Mezey E, Brownstein MJ, Patterson D. Mutations in SOD1 associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cause novel protein interactions. Nat Genet 1997;15:91-4
12. Abe K, Pan M, Watanabe T, et al. Induction of tyrosine-like immunoreactivity in the lower motor neuron of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurosci Lett 1995;199:152-4
13. Rabizadeh S, Gralla E, Borchelt D, et al. Mutations associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis convert Superoxide dismutase from an antiapoptotic gene to a proapoptotic gene: studies in yeast and neural cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1995;92:3024-8
14. Card MT, Battistoni A, Polizio F, et al. Impaired copper binding by the H46R mutant of human Cu,Zn Superoxide dismutase involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. FEBS Lett 1994 356:314-6
15. Koh J, Choi D. Zinc toxicity on cultured neurons: involvement of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. Neuroscience 1994;60:1049-57