Modeling Alexander disease with patient iPSCs reveals cellular and molecular pathology of astrocytes

Alexander disease is a fatal neurological illness characterized by white-matter degeneration and formation of Rosenthal fibers, which contain glial fibrillary acidic protein as astrocytic inclusion. Alexander disease is mainly caused by a gene mutation encoding glial fibrillary acidic protein, altho...

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Main Authors: Kondo, Takayuki, Funayama, Misato, Miyake, Michiyo, Tsukita, Kayoko, Era, Takumi, Osaka, Hitoshi, Ayaki, Takashi, Takahashi, Ryosuke, Inoue, Haruhisa
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940830/