VPAC2 receptor agonist BAY 55-9837 increases SMN protein levels and moderates disease phenotype in severe spinal muscular atrophy mouse models

BACKGROUND: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is one of the most common inherited causes of infant death and is caused by the loss of functional survival motor neuron (SMN) protein due to mutations or deletion in the SMN1 gene. One of the treatment strategies for SMA is to induce the expression of the p...

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Autores principales: Hadwen, Jeremiah, MacKenzie, Duncan, Shamim, Fahad, Mongeon, Kevin, Holcik, Martin, MacKenzie, Alex, Farooq, Faraz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3895859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24405637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-1172-9-4

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