Development of therapeutics for spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA)

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 909-911

  Sobue, Gen ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heat shock protein (HSP); Polyglutamine; Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA); Testosterone; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CHAPERONE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; LEUPRORELIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEASOME; TESTOSTERONE; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CASTRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CASTRATION; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUPROLIDE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUSCULAR DISORDERS, ATROPHIC; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 3042588809     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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