Selective loss of alpha motor neurons with sparing of gamma motor neurons and spinal cord cholinergic neurons in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 443-451

  Powis, Rachael A ^a   Gillingwater, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SMA; Alpha motor neuron; Cholinergic neuron; Gamma motor neuron; Spinal cord; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA MOTONEURON; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOTONEURON; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR NEURONS; MOTOR NEURONS, GAMMA; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84947967882     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12419     Document Type: Article

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