Riluzole and edaravone: A tale of two amyotrophic lateral sclerosis drugs

MK Jaiswal - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, a multitude of experimental drugs have been shown to delay
disease progression in preclinical animal models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) but …

Pharmacotherapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a review of approved and upcoming agents

SA Johnson, T Fang, F De Marchi, D Neel… - Drugs, 2022 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder
involving loss of upper and lower motor neurons, with most cases ending in death within 3–5 …

ALS drug development: reflections from the past and a way forward

S Aggarwal, M Cudkowicz - Neurotherapeutics, 2008 - Springer
Tremendous advances in our understanding of pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) have provided a rich pipeline of drugs for clinical trialists. At least 32 unique …

The clinical trial landscape in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—Past, present, and future

HJ Wobst, KL Mack, DG Brown… - Medicinal research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease marked by
progressive loss of muscle function. It is the most common adult‐onset form of motor neuron …

Two decades-long journey from riluzole to edaravone: revisiting the clinical pharmacokinetics of the only two amyotrophic lateral sclerosis therapeutics

RP Dash, RJ Babu, NR Srinivas - Clinical pharmacokinetics, 2018 - Springer
The recent approval of edaravone has provided an intravenous option to treat amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) in addition to the existing oral agent, riluzole. The present work was …

New developments and opportunities in drugs being trialed for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from 2020 to 2022

JS Jiang, Y Wang, M Deng - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that
primarily affects motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. In the recent past, there have …

Real-world evidence of riluzole effectiveness in treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

JA Andrews, CE Jackson… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objective To compare the effect of riluzole on median survival in population studies of
patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with that observed in clinical trials …

Edaravone: a new drug approved for ALS

JD Rothstein - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, adult onset neurodegenerative disease
that is always fatal. The history of ALS drug discovery is fraught with many stops and starts. It …

Riluzole: real-world evidence supports significant extension of median survival times in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

M Hinchcliffe, A Smith - Degenerative neurological and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the commonest form of motor neuron disease and is a
fatal, degenerative, multisystem disorder affecting upper and/or lower motor neurons in the …

Riluzole, neuroprotection and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

BC Cheah, S Vucic, AV Krishnan… - Current medicinal …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a universally fatal neurodegenerative disease of the
human motor system. Aetiological mechanisms implicated in the development of ALS have …