Friday, September 4, 2009

The dorsal root ganglion in Friedreich's ataxia.

Acta Neuropathol. 2009 Aug 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Koeppen AH, Morral JA, Davis AN, Qian J, Petrocine SV, Knutson MD, Gibson WM, Cusack MJ, Li D.
Research Service (151), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY, 12208, USA, arnulf.koeppen@med.va.gov.

Keywords: Atrophy of dorsal root ganglia (DRG), thinning of dorsal roots (DR), Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), selective vulnerability of larger neurons in DRG, selective vulnerability of thicker myelinated DR axons, ventral roots (VR), Schwann cells, laminin, ferritin, mitochondrial ferritin, ferroportin.