Chronic exposure to dietary sterol glucosides is neurotoxic to motor neurons and induces an ALS-PDC phenotype

NeuroMolecular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-39

  Tabata, R C ^a   Wilson, J M B ^a   Ly, P ^a   Zwiegers, P ^a   Kwok, D ^a   Van Kampen, J M ^b   Cashman, N ^a   Shaw, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; ALS PDC; BSSG; Environmental toxicity; Etiology; Guam; Parkinsonism

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSIDE; PHYTOSTEROL; SITOSTEROL;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; CASPASE 3; CELLS, CULTURED; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEMENTIA; DIET; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; SITOSTEROLS; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

CYCADOPSIDA; MUS;

EID: 49249093264     PISSN: 15351084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12017-007-8020-z     Document Type: Article

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