Therapeutic strategies for spinal muscular atrophy: SMN and beyond

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating neuromuscular disorder characterized by loss of motor neurons and muscle atrophy, generally presenting in childhood. SMA is caused by low levels of the survival motor neuron protein (SMN) due to inactivating mutations in the encoding gene SMN1. A second...

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Hlavní autoři: Bowerman, M, Becker, C, Yáñez-Muñoz, R, Ning, K, Wood, M, Gillingwater, T, Talbot, K, UK SMA Research Consortium
Médium: Journal article
Vydáno: Company of Biologists 2017