Analysis of the benefits of vitamin cocktails in treating Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1052-1054

  Kaya, Ferdinand ^a   Belin, Sophie ^a   Micallef, Joelle ^b   Blin, Olivier ^b   Fontés, Michel ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Charcot Marie Tooth disease; Cyclic AMP; PMP22; Schwann cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; RETINOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY TYPE IA; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SCHWANN CELL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MYELIN PROTEINS; SCHWANN CELLS; TRANSFECTION; VITAMINS;

EID: 49449094807     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21071     Document Type: Article

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