Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/ejn.13510 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. DR. CRISTINA GUATIMOSIM (Orcid ID : 0000-0001-5392-1266) Received Date : 18-Apr-2016 Revised Date : 07-Dec-2016 Accepted Date : 08-Dec-2016 Article type : Research Report Muscle atrophy is associated with cervical spinal motoneuron loss in BACHD mouse model for Huntington's disease Priscila Aparecida Costa Valadão 1 ; Bárbara Campos de Aragão 1 ; Jéssica Neves Andrade 1 ; Matheus Proença S. M. Gomes 1 ; Giselle Foureaux 1 ; Julliane Vasconcelos Joviano-Santos 1 ; José Carlos Nogueira 1 ; Fabíola Mara Ribeiro 2 ; Juan Carlos Tapia 3 ; Cristina Guatimosim 1* 1 Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte – MG, Brasil. 2 Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte – MG, Brasil. 3 Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Talca, Talca, Chile. *Corresponding author Cristina Guatimosim Associate Professor Departamento de Morfologia, ICB Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais