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Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Known as: Spinal Amyotrophies, atrophy spinal muscular, Spinal Amyotrophy 
A group of disorders marked by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord resulting in weakness and muscular atrophy, usually… 
National Institutes of Health

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Broader (3)

Anterior Horn Cell DiseaseGeneral ParalysisMotor Neuron Disease

Narrower (26)

Bulbospinal NeuronopathyCamptocormiaDistal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy, Type IIDistal Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Congenital neurologic anomaliesConnective and Soft TissueHMN (Hereditary Motor Neuropathy) Proximal Type IIn Blood

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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Hsp70 and Antifibrillogenic Peptides Promote Degradation and Inhibit Intracellular Aggregation of Amyloidogenic Light Chains
In light chain (LC) amyloidosis an immunoglobulin LC assembles into fibrils that are deposited in various tissues. Little is… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Reflex responses associated with manipulative treatments on the thoracic spine: a pilot study.
OBJECTIVE To test systematically if spinal manipulative treatments (SMT) and the audible release associated with SMT cause… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Comparison of plasma cytokine levels in rats subjected to superior mesenteric artery occlusion or hemorrhagic shock.
The overall goal of this study was to compare the effects of systemic hypotension (hemorrhagic shock) versus local gut ischemia… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Spinal manipulation and beta-endorphin: a controlled study of the effect of a spinal manipulation on plasma beta-endorphin levels in normal males.
The role of spinal manipulation in the relief of pain is becoming clearer and more demonstrable as time passes. One approach to… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Supplementary motor area and premotor area of monkey cerebral cortex: functional organization and activities of single neurons during performance of a learned movement.
In the conscious, behaving monkey trained to perform a motor task either self-paced or involving light cues, a restricted area… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Pathology of motor neurons in accelerated hereditary canine spinal muscular atrophy.
Hereditary canine spinal muscular atrophy is a dominantly inherited lower motor neuron disease with three phenotypic variants… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Restriction endonuclease mapping of a plasmid that confers oncogenicity upon Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain B6-806.
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Growth and Mineral Metabolism in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. II. Effects of Calcium Supplementation on Growth and Divalent Cations
Extract: Infants of two groups, one of 16, one of 14 infants, who weighed < 1.3 kg at birth (mean 1.01 ± 0.05 kg), were studied… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Spinal motor neurones in murine muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy
Recent electrophysiological studies of human and mouse muscular dystrophy have prompted the hypothesis that both are of… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Subcellular distribution of 3-H-estradiol in rat uterus by quantitative autoradiography--a comparison between 3-H-estradiol and 3-H-norethynodrel.
0.09 or 0.63 μg of 6,7-3H-estradiol- 17β or 10 μg of 6,7-3H-norethynodrel was injected in immature rats and the distribution of… 
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