The changing scene of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

W Robberecht, T Philips - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
Several recent breakthroughs have provided notable insights into the pathogenesis of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with some even shifting our thinking about this …

Deciphering amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: what phenotype, neuropathology and genetics are telling us about pathogenesis

J Ravits, S Appel, RH Baloh, R Barohn… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized phenotypically by progressive
weakness and neuropathologically by loss of motor neurons. Phenotypically, there is …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: mechanisms and therapeutics in the epigenomic era

X Paez-Colasante, C Figueroa-Romero… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of the motor
neurons, which results in weakness and atrophy of voluntary skeletal muscles. Treatments …

The pathobiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a proteinopathy?

MJ Strong, S Kesavapany… - Journal of Neuropathology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is increasingly considered to be a disorder of multiple
etiologies that have in common progressive degeneration of both upper and lower motor …

The neurobiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A Bento‐Abreu, P Van Damme… - European Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a degenerative disease affecting the motor neurons. In spite
of our growing insights into its biology, it remains a lethal condition. The identification of the …

ALS: astrocytes move in as deadly neighbors

JP Julien - Nature neuroscience, 2007 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by the selective degeneration of motor
neurons. Two independent studies in this issue show that astrocytes expressing a mutation …

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 …

Emerging mechanisms of molecular pathology in ALS

OM Peters, M Ghasemi… - The Journal of clinical …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating degenerative disease characterized by
progressive loss of motor neurons in the motor cortex, brainstem, and spinal cord. Although …

Common molecular pathways in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

JH Weishaupt, T Hyman, I Dikic - Trends in molecular medicine, 2016 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are age-related
neurodegenerative diseases in which predominantly motor neurons and cerebral cortex …

Non-cell-autonomous pathogenic mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

ACM Van Harten, H Phatnani, S Przedborski - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common adult-onset paralytic disorder,
characterized mainly by a loss of motor neurons (MNs) in the CNS. Over the past decades …