Excitation BolsTORs Motor Neurons in ALS Mice

MarkP Mattson

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.09.017

Excitation BolsTORs Motor Neurons in ALS Mice

MarkP Mattson

School of Medicine

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It is unclear why motor neurons selectively degenerate in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Saxena etal. (2013) demonstrate that excitation of motor neurons can prevent their demise in a mouse model of inherited ALS by a mechanism involving the mTOR pathway.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Neuron
Volume	80
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.09.017
State	Published - Oct 2 2013

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