Quantitative analysis of human endogenous retrovirus-K transcripts in postmortem premotor cortex fails to confirm elevated expression of HERV-K RNA in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Abstract Over the past two decades a number of studies have demonstrated activity of the retroviral enzyme reverse transcriptase in the serum of patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Known human exogenous retroviruses such as HIV-1 have been eliminated as possible sources of th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-03-01
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Series: | Acta Neuropathologica Communications |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40478-019-0698-2 |