Neurogenic and myogenic contributions to hereditary motor neuron disease

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 199-209

  Bricceno, Katherine V ^a,b   Fischbeck, Kenneth H ^a   Burnett, Barrington G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Hereditary motor neuron disease; Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; BORTEZOMIB; BUTYRIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DYNACTIN; DYNACTIN 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FOLLISTATIN; MYOSTATIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLASTIN 3; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROFILIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; RECOMBINANT SOMATOMEDIN C; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEROID RECEPTOR; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 2; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DISORDER; HEREDITARY MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KENNEDY DISEASE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE FIBER; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE DISEASE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISORDER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SYMPTOM;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEUROGENESIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84861234054     PISSN: 16602854     EISSN: 16602862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335311     Document Type: Review

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