The intriguing case of motor neuron disease: ALS and SMA come closer

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1593-1597

  Achsel, Tilmann ^a   Barabino, Silvia ^b   Cozzolino, Mauro ^c,d   Carr, Maria Teresa ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Fused in sarcoma (FUS) motor neuron disease; RNA metabolism; Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA); Survival of motor neuron (SMN)

Indexed keywords

FUSED IN SARCOMA PROTEIN; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOGENESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA METABOLISM; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84887891531     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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