Improving clinical trial outcomes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MC Kiernan, S Vucic, K Talbot, CJ McDermott… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Individuals who are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) today face the same
historically intransigent problem that has existed since the initial description of the disease in …

Immune cell regulation of glia during CNS injury and disease

AD Greenhalgh, S David, FC Bennett - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Glial cells are abundant in the CNS and are essential for brain development and
homeostasis. These cells also regulate tissue recovery after injury and their dysfunction is a …

The contribution of the peripheral immune system to neurodegeneration

F Berriat, CS Lobsiger, S Boillée - Nature Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Microglial cells are the major immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS), and directly
react to neurodegeneration, but other immune cell types are also able to react to pathology …

Immune dysregulation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: mechanisms and emerging therapies

DR Beers, SH Appel - The Lancet Neurology, 2019 - thelancet.com
Neuroinflammation is a common pathological feature of many neurodegenerative diseases,
including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and is characterised by activated CNS …

Non-neuronal cells in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—from pathogenesis to biomarkers

BF Vahsen, E Gray, AG Thompson, O Ansorge… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The prevailing motor neuron-centric view of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
pathogenesis could be an important factor in the failure to identify disease-modifying therapy …

Inflammation in ALS/FTD pathogenesis

ME McCauley, RH Baloh - Acta neuropathologica, 2019 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are
neurodegenerative diseases that overlap in their clinical presentation, pathology and …

T cell responses at diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis predict disease progression

S Yazdani, C Seitz, C Cui, A Lovik, L Pan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease, involving
neuroinflammation and T cell infiltration in the central nervous system. However, the …

Current state and future directions in the therapy of ALS

L Tzeplaeff, S Wilfling, MV Requardt, M Herdick - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder
affecting upper and lower motor neurons, with death resulting mainly from respiratory failure …

Peripheral immune system in aging and Alzheimer's disease

W Cao, H Zheng - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents an urgent public health mandate. AD is no longer
considered a neural-centric disease; rather, a plethora of recent studies strongly implicate a …

Aging and neurodegenerative disease: is the adaptive immune system a friend or foe?

K Mayne, JA White, CE McMurran, FJ Rivera… - Frontiers in aging …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) are characterized by
progressive neuronal death and neurological dysfunction, leading to increased disability …