Skeletal muscle DNA damage precedes spinal motor neuron DNA damage in a mouse model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Fayzullina, Saniya ^a   Martin, Lee J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EOSIN; GENOMIC DNA; HEMATOXYLIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMN GENE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA DAMAGE; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899799077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093329     Document Type: Article

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