Cellular pathways involved in the adaptation and progression of motor neuron injury in the mouse model of familial ALS

Microarray analysis has been applied to the study of ALS in order to investigate gene expression in whole spinal cord homogenates of SOD1 G93A mice and human ALS cases, although the massive presence of glial cells and inflammatory factors has made it difficult to define which gene expression changes were motor neuron specific. Recently, laser capture microdissection (LCM), combined with microarray analysis, has allowed the identification of motor neuron specific changes in gene expression in human ALS cases.

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Ferraiuolo L, Heath PR, Holden H, Kasher P, Kirby J, Shaw PJ