Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/Neuroscience.2.012
ALS Skeletal Muscle: Victim or Culprit
Agnes Badu-Mensah M.Sc1,2, Xiufang Guo Ph. D.1,2, James J. Hickman Ph. D.1,2*
- 1University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, Orlando, Florida, USA
- 2Hickman Hybrid Systems Laboratory NanoScience Technology Center University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA
Corresponding Author
James J. Hickman, jhickman@ucf.edu
Received Date: May 05, 2021
Accepted Date: June 28, 2021
Badu-Mensah A, Guo X, Hickman JJ. ALS Skeletal Muscle: Victim or Culprit. Neurosci Chron 2021; 2(2):31-33.
Copyright: © 2021 Badu-Mensah A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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