Can old observations explain the pathogenesis of SMA?

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 381-383

  Vrbova G ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SCLEROPROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; MYOTUBE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REINNERVATION; RNA SPLICING; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL DEATH; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL;

EID: 84859647351     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: 18732364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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