Exploring Novel Methods to Achieve Systemic Delivery of SMN for Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by insufficient levels of the survival motor neuron protein (SMN), leading to progressive deterioration of α-motor neurons, onset of muscle atrophy and, in severe disease, death. We investigated whether reducing the size...

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Main Author: McFall, Emily
Other Authors: Parks, Robin
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31803
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-6563