Glycogen accumulation underlies neurodegeneration and autophagy impairment in lafora disease

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3147-3156

  Duran, Jordi ^a,b   Gruart, Agnès ^d   García Rocha, Mar ^a   Delgado García, José M ^d   Guinovart, Joan J ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; KAINIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE; EPM2A PROTEIN, MOUSE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; NHLRC1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; CELL INCLUSION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; EPILEPSY; GENETICS; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DUAL-SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASES; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; EPILEPSY; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; KAINIC ACID; LAFORA DISEASE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 84901318614     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu024     Document Type: Article

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