Motor neuron disease associated with copper deficiency

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 789-793

  Weihl, Conrad C ^a   Lopate, Glenn ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Copper deficiency; Motor neuron disease; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Myelopathy; Spinal cord disease

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; COPPER; GLUCONATE COPPER; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; COPPER DEFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SPASTICITY; SURAL NERVE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; COPPER; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GLUCONATES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749234649     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20631     Document Type: Article

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