Motor neuron degeneration in a 20-week male fetus: Spinal muscular atrophy type 0

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-220

  Sarnat, Harvey B ^a,b   Trevenen, Cynthia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLIOSIS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFLAMMATION; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE GROWTH; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY TYPE O;

EID: 34347231532     PISSN: 03171671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0317167100006077     Document Type: Article

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