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A high proportion of diluted serums of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were toxic to the anterior horn cells of the mouse in tissue culture. This is not a general cytotoxicity, since apparently only the neurons were killed. Serums from other degenerative neurological diseases were inactive.
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Wolfgram et al. (1973) studied this question.
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