Increased autophagy in transgenic mice with a G93A mutant SOD1 gene

Brain Research

Volumn 1167, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 112-117

  Morimoto, Nobutoshi ^a   Nagai, Makiko ^a   Ohta, Yasuyuki ^a   Miyazaki, Kazunori ^a   Kurata, Tomoko ^a   Morimoto, Mizuki ^a   Murakami, Tetsuro ^a   Takehisa, Yasushi ^a   Ikeda, Yoshio ^a   Kamiya, Tatsushi ^a   Abe, Koji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALS; Autophagy; G93A; LC3; mTOR; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; SERINE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOASSAY; LIGHT CHAIN; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SOD1 GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SERINE; SPINAL CORD; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS;

EID: 34548125010     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.045     Document Type: Article

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