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Muscular Atrophy, Spinal

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Definition: A group of disorders marked by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord resulting in weakness and muscular atrophy, usually without evidence of injury to the corticospinal tracts. Diseases in this category include Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and later onset SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD, most of which are hereditary. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1089)  MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL, INFANTILE see SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD is also available   
Examples Bulbo-Spinal Atrophy, X-Linked; Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood 		Other names Progressive Muscular Atrophies; Neuronopathy, Bulbospinal; Neuronopathies, Bulbospinal; Muscular Atrophy, Progressive; Muscular Atrophy, Myelopathic; Muscular Atrophies, Progressive; Bulbospinal Neuronopathies; Atrophy, Spinal Muscular; Atrophy, Progressive Muscular; Atrophy, Myelopathic Muscular; Atrophies, Progressive Muscular; Adult Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy; Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Scapuloperoneal Form; Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Oculopharyngeal; Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Distal; Proximal Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy, Progressive; Progressive Proximal Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy; Progressive Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy; Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy, Progressive; Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy
 
SubstanceCAS Registry & nameCategoriesSource
Spinal muscular atrophy 4  0   *Muscular Atrophy, Spinal.
Camptocormia  0   *Muscular Atrophy, Spinal *Spinal Curvatures.
Spinal muscular atrophy, Ryukyuan type  0   *Muscular Atrophy, Spinal. J Neurol Sci 11(4):359-82
Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress 1  0   *Muscular Atrophy, Spinal *Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn.
Spinal muscular atrophy, Jerash type  0   *Muscular Atrophy, Spinal.
Sip1 protein, mouse  0   *Nerve Tissue Proteins Muscular Atrophy, Spinal.
SERF1A protein, human  0   *Nerve Tissue Proteins Muscular Atrophy, Spinal. Nat Genet 1998 Sep;20(1):83-6
GEMIN2 protein, human  0   *Nerve Tissue Proteins *RNA-Binding Proteins Muscular Atrophy, Spinal. Cell 1997 Sep 19;90(6):1013-21

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