Selective degeneration of a physiological subtype of spinal motor neuron in mice with SOD1-linked ALS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 16883-16888

  Hadzipasic, Muhamed ^a   Tahvildari, Babak ^a   Nagy, Maria ^a   Bian, Minjuan ^a,b   Horwich, Arthur L ^a   McCormick, David A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology   (China)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Electrophysiology; Motor neurons; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOUSE; MSOD1 MOUSE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SLOW MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; STEADY STATE; TISSUE SLICE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; MOTONEURON; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SPINAL CORD; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 84912082110     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1419497111     Document Type: Article

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