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Neurologist Kevin Talbot on the RNA transport down the axons, spinal muscular atrophy and why human motor neurons are vulnerable to diseases.
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'For messages or responses to biological perturbations which might require the expression of genes in the nucleus, how does that then result in protein changes at the synapse which may be a meter away in a healthy fully grown adult? It requires extremely well-organized axonal transport, and we know that even so-called fast axonal transport occurs really at a rate which means that protein produced in the cytoplasm near the nucleus may take several days to arrive at the synapse. '
Kevin Talbot, Professor of Neurology, University of Oxford
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Neurologist Kevin Talbot on the RNA transport down the axons, spinal muscular atrophy and why human motor neurons are vulnerable to diseases.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/motor-neurons-10177
'For messages or responses to biological perturbations which might require the expression of genes in the nucleus, how does that then result in protein changes at the synapse which may be a meter away in a healthy fully grown adult? It requires extremely well-organized axonal transport, and we know that even so-called fast axonal transport occurs really at a rate which means that protein produced in the cytoplasm near the nucleus may take several days to arrive at the synapse. '
Kevin Talbot, Professor of Neurology, University of Oxford
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