Engineered in vitro disease models

KH Benam, S Dauth, B Hassell… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The ultimate goal of most biomedical research is to gain greater insight into mechanisms of
human disease or to develop new and improved therapies or diagnostics. Although great …

Genetic causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: new genetic analysis methodologies entailing new opportunities and challenges

G Marangi, BJ Traynor - Brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
The genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is being increasingly
understood. In this far-reaching review, we examine what is currently known about ALS …

Expression of muscle-specific MiRNA 206 in the progression of disease in a murine SMA model

V Valsecchi, M Boido, E De Amicis, A Piras, A Vercelli - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe neuromuscular disease, the most common in
infancy, and the third one among young people under 18 years. The major pathological …

Use of biomarkers in ALS drug development and clinical trials

N Bakkar, A Boehringer, R Bowser - Brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the discovery of candidate biomarkers for
ALS. These biomarkers typically can either differentiate ALS from control subjects or predict …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genetic studies: from genome-wide association mapping to genome sequencing

J He, M Mangelsdorf, D Fan, P Bartlett… - The …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of obscure etiology.
Multiple genetic studies have been conducted to advance our understanding of the disease …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges in the understanding and treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease

J Rosenfeld, MJ Strong - Neurotherapeutics, 2015 - Elsevier
With the acceleration in our understanding of ALS and the related motor neuron disease has
come even greater challenges in reconciling all of the proposed pathogenic mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] A (a) LS: Ammonia-induced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

B Parekh - F1000Research, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a dreadful, devastating and incurable motor neuron
disease. Aetiologically, it is a multigenic, multifactorial and multiorgan disease. Despite …

脊髓侧索硬化症遗传学研究方法综述

黄晶 - 中国实用神经疾病杂志, 2015 - cqvip.com
肌萎缩侧索硬化症(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS) 是—种累及脑与脊髓上下运动神经元,
导致肌肉无力, 萎缩, 言语, 吞咽, 呼吸功能障碍的迟发性神经变性疾病[1] …

Single-nucleotide polymorphism rs2275294 in ZNF512B is not associated with susceptibility to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a large Chinese cohort

XD Ju, T Liu, J Chen, XG Li, XX Liu, WC Liu… - Chinese Medical …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that
primarily affects motor neurons and has no effective treatment. Recently, Iida et al. identified …

A common functional allele of the Nogo receptor gene, reticulon 4 receptor (RTN4R), is associated with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a French population

M Amy, O Staehlin, F René, H Blasco… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is sporadic (SALS) in 90% of cases and has complex
environmental and genetic influences. Nogo protein inhibits neurite outgrowth and is …