Dietary BMAA exposure in an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cluster from southern France

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Masseret, Estelle ^a   Banack, Sandra ^b   Boumédiène, Farid ^c   Abadie, Eric ^d   Brient, Luc ^e   Pernet, Fabrice ^d,g   Juntas Morales, Raoul ^f,j   Pageot, Nicolas ^f   Metcalf, James ^b   Cox, Paul ^b   Camu, William ^f   Besson, Gerard ^h   Bonneterre, Vincent ⁱ   Couratier, Philippe ^j   Druet Cabanac, Michel ^c   Lagrange, Emmeline ^h   Marin, Benoit ^c   Mejean, Annick ^k   Preux, Pierre Marie ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Institute for Ethnomedicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^d IFREMER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^g Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^h GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

ⁱ UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^j LIMOGES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^k PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FRANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAGOON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; SUMMER;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIVALVIA; CYANOBACTERIA; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHELLFISH;

EID: 84892628747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083406     Document Type: Article

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