Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) causes a loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem. It mainly affects facial and swallowing muscles and the muscles in the arms and legs.

“Lack of SMN leads to selective death of spinal motoneurons and progressive muscle atrophy,” the team continued. While there is no cure for SMA, several promising neuroprotective treatments ...

Age-related muscular atrophy in skeletal muscle can have a devastating ... the mass of a mouse's tibialis anterior (in the lower leg) by a massive ten percent. Though they are yet to find out ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat ageing-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to ...

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A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA ... cord and improve leg muscle strength and walking ...