Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a neurodegenerative disorder poised for successful therapeutic translation

RJ Mead, N Shan, HJ Reiser, F Marshall… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating disease caused by degeneration of
motor neurons. As with all major neurodegenerative disorders, development of disease …

Recent developments in TSPO PET imaging as a biomarker of neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative disorders

EL Werry, FM Bright, O Piguet, LM Ittner… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Neuroinflammation is an inflammatory response in the brain and spinal cord, which can
involve the activation of microglia and astrocytes. It is a common feature of many central …

From multi-omics approaches to precision medicine in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

G Morello, S Salomone, V D'Agata… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating and fatal neurodegenerative disorder,
caused by the degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons for which there is no truly …

Interplay between immunity and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Clinical impact

F De Marchi, I Munitic, A Amedei, JD Berry… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a debilitating and rapidly fatal neurodegenerative
disease. Despite decades of research and many new insights into disease biology over the …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in nanotechnology-based strategies for the treatments of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

GY Wang, SL Rayner, R Chung, BY Shi, XJ Liang - Materials Today Bio, 2020 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), is a
progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects both upper and lower motor neurons …

The multifaceted role of kinases in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: genetic, pathological and therapeutic implications

W Guo, T Vandoorne, J Steyaert, KA Staats… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is the most common degenerative disorder of motor neurons in
adults. As there is no cure, thousands of individuals who are alive at present will succumb to …

Modelling microglial function with induced pluripotent stem cells: an update

JM Pocock, TM Piers - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
It is becoming increasingly apparent that microglia, the immune cells of the CNS, and their
peripheral counterparts, macrophages, have a major role in normal physiology and …

Microglial TREM2 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

M Xie, S Zhao, DB Bosco, A Nguyen… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is an aggressive
motor neuron degenerative disease characterized by selective loss of both upper and lower …

Glia-specific autophagy dysfunction in ALS

L Strohm, C Behrends - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Neuronal cell death is the main pathological feature of chronic neurodegenerative diseases
(NDs) such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral …

Increased FUS levels in astrocytes leads to astrocyte and microglia activation and neuronal death

MA Ajmone-Cat, A Onori, C Toselli, E Stronati… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Mutations of Fused in sarcoma (FUS), a ribonucleoprotein involved in RNA metabolism,
have been found associated with both familial and sporadic cases of amyotrophic lateral …