X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy’s disease): the first case described in the Brazilian Amazon

X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy’s disease): the first case described in the Brazilian Amazon

ABSTRACT The X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy’s disease) is a rare X-linked, recessive, lower motor neuron disease, characterized by weakness, atrophy, and fasciculations of the appendicular and bulbar muscle. The disease is caused by an expansion of the CAG repetition in the and...

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Main Authors: Camila Nascimento Alves, Tiago Kiyoshi Kitabayashi Braga, Danusa Neves Somensi, Bruno Sérgio Vilhena do Nascimento, José Antônio Santos de Lima, Satomi Fujihara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
Series:Einstein (São Paulo)
Subjects:
Bulbo-spinal atrophy
X-Linked
Kennedy disease
Motor neurons
Motor neuron disease
Medulla oblongata
Amazonian ecosystem
Brazil
Case reports
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