SMN Protein Can Be Reliably Measured in Whole Blood with an Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) Immunoassay: Implications for Clinical Trials.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by defects in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene that encodes survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. The majority of therapeutic approaches currently in clinical development for SMA aim to increase SMN protein expression and there is a need for sensitive me...

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Main Authors: Phillip Zaworski, Katharine M von Herrmann, Shannon Taylor, Sara S Sunshine, Kathleen McCarthy, Nicole Risher, Tara Newcomb, Marla Weetall, Thomas W Prior, Kathryn J Swoboda, Karen S Chen, Sergey Paushkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4783032?pdf=render