Determinants of rapid disease progression in ALS

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1859-1860

  Yamanaka, Koji ^a   Cleveland, Don W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LENTIVIRINAE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; WILD TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOTONEURON; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NOTE; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; TIME;

AGE OF ONSET; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645751494     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000192717.25980.b5     Document Type: Editorial

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