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Neurology

the proposal that in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis degeneration starts at the distal motor axon and neuromuscular junction and proceeds back toward the cell body.

In neurology, dying-back hypothesis refers to the proposal that in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis degeneration starts at the distal motor axon and neuromuscular junction and proceeds back toward the cell body. This meaning comes from Fischer (2004) in Experimental Neurology.[1]

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Fischer, L. R., Culver, D. G., Tennant, P., Davis, A. A., Wang, M., Castellano-Sanchez, A., Khan, J., Polak, M. A., & Glass, J. D. (2004). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a distal axonopathy: evidence in mice and man. Experimental Neurology, 185(2), 232-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2003.10.004

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