B Swinnen, W Robberecht - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2014 - nature.com
Classic textbook neurology teaches that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative disease that selectively affects upper and lower motor neurons and is fatal 3–5 …
AG Thompson, E Gray, SM Heman-Ackah… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
To develop effective disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, reliable markers of diagnosis, disease activity and progression are a research priority. The fact that …
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a paralytic and usually fatal disorder caused by motor- neuron degeneration in the brain and spinal cord. Most cases of ALS are sporadic but about …
L Le Gall, E Anakor, O Connolly… - Journal of personalized …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal late-onset condition characterized by the loss of upper and lower motor neurons. Mutations in more than 30 genes are associated to …
B Caughey, PT Lansbury Jr - Annual review of neuroscience, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (prion diseases), are characterized at autopsy …
High levels of familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-linked SOD1 mutants G93A and G37R were previously shown to mediate disease in mice through an acquired toxic property …
LI Bruijn, MK Houseweart, S Kato, KL Anderson… - Science, 1998 - science.org
Analysis of transgenic mice expressing familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)–linked mutations in the enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD1) have shown that motor neuron …
JJP Perry, DS Shin, ED Getzoff, JA Tainer - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2010 - Elsevier
The discovery of superoxide dismutases (SODs), which convert superoxide radicals to molecular oxygen and hydrogen peroxide, has been termed the most important discovery of …
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder characterized by death of motor neurons leading to muscle wasting, paralysis, and death …