Modeling spinal muscular atrophy in Drosophila.

Modeling spinal muscular atrophy in Drosophila.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a recessive hereditary neurodegenerative disease in humans, has been linked to mutations in the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene. SMA patients display early onset lethality coupled with motor neuron loss and skeletal muscle atrophy. We used Drosophila, which encodes a...

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Main Authors: Howard Chia-Hao Chang, Douglas N Dimlich, Takakazu Yokokura, Ashim Mukherjee, Mark W Kankel, Anindya Sen, Vasanthi Sridhar, Tudor A Fulga, Anne C Hart, David Van Vactor, Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18791638/?tool=EBI

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