Therapeutic developments in spinal muscular atrophy

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a potentially devastating disease marked by progressive weakness and muscle atrophy resulting from the dysfunction and loss of motor neurons of the spinal cord, has emerged in recent years as an attractive target for therapeutic intervention. Caused by a homozygous mut...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Douglas M. Sproule, Petra Kaufmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-05-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1756285610369026