New SMA paper published
This week Lyndsay Murray, Tom Gillingwater, Simon Parson and collaborators in Oxford have published a paper in Human Molecular Genetics, which clearly demonstrates that Spinal Muscular Atrophy is not a disease caused by faulty development, rather animals are normal at birth, but then undergo rapid loss of neuromuscular synapses. Most importantly, this work demonstrates that a clear treatment window exists for SMA patients during which synapses could be rescued by drugs and other interventions.
Read the full report at here.
PMID: 19884170
Posted: 14th January 2010
