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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
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Phenylbutyrate increases SMN gene expression in spinal muscular atrophy patients
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by insufficient levels of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. Recently, we found that… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Brain activity correlates differentially with increasing temporal complexity of rhythms during initialisation, synchronisation, and continuation phases of paced finger tapping
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Disease Gene Product, Smn
The spliceosomal snRNAs U1, U2, U4, and U5 are synthesized in the nucleus, exported to the cytoplasm to assemble with Sm proteins… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The effect of spinal manipulation in the treatment of cervicogenic headache.
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Reduced transcriptional regulatory competence of the androgen receptor in X–linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
Expansion of the long (CAG; glutamine)n repeat in the first exon of the X–linked human androgen receptor gene (hAR) causes spinal… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Dependence of postnatal motoneurones on their targets: review and hypothesis
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Relationship between traumatic spinal canal stenosis and neurologic deficits in thoracolumbar burst fractures.
Using CT scans of 112 consecutive patients with thoracolumbar burst fractures, we investigated the relationship between traumatic… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Central motor conduction in multiple sclerosis: evaluation of abnormalities revealed by transcutaneous magnetic stimulation of the brain.
Magnetic stimulation of the brain and spinal column was used to assess conduction in the descending central motor pathways… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Selective Modal Analysis With Applications to Electric Power Systems, Part II: The Dynamic Stability Problem
Selective Modal Analysis (or SMA) is a physically motivated framework for understanding, simplifying and analyzing complicated… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Extracellular calcium ionic activity in experimental spinal cord contusion
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