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 …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MA Van Es, O Hardiman, A Chio, A Al-Chalabi… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is characterised by the progressive loss of motor neurons in
the brain and spinal cord. This neurodegenerative syndrome shares pathobiological …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal spectrum disorder (ALS-FTSD): Revised diagnostic criteria

MJ Strong, S Abrahams, LH Goldstein… - … lateral sclerosis and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents the revised consensus criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal
dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) based on an international research …

Global variation in prevalence and incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Xu, T Liu, L Liu, X Yao, L Chen, D Fan, S Zhan… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a global disease, which adversely affects
the life quality of patients and significantly increases the burden of families and society. We …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: moving towards a new classification system

A Al-Chalabi, O Hardiman, MC Kiernan, A Chiò… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive adult-onset neurodegenerative disease that
primarily affects upper and lower motor neurons, but also frontotemporal and other regions …

The epidemiology of ALS: a conspiracy of genes, environment and time

A Al-Chalabi, O Hardiman - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2013 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relentlessly progressive neurodegenerative disease
of motor neurons, resulting in worsening weakness of voluntary muscles until death from …

Antisense proline-arginine RAN dipeptides linked to C9ORF72-ALS/FTD form toxic nuclear aggregates that initiate in vitro and in vivo neuronal death

X Wen, W Tan, T Westergard, K Krishnamurthy… - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Summary Expanded GGGGCC (G4C2) nucleotide repeats within the C9ORF72 gene are the
most common genetic mutation associated with both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and …

Unconventional translation of C9ORF72 GGGGCC expansion generates insoluble polypeptides specific to c9FTD/ALS

PEA Ash, KF Bieniek, TF Gendron, T Caulfield, WL Lin… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are devastating
neurodegenerative disorders with clinical, genetic, and neuropathological overlap …

Variation in worldwide incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a meta-analysis

B Marin, F Boumédiene, G Logroscino… - International journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background To assess the worldwide variation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
incidence, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based data …

The evolving landscape of exosomes in neurodegenerative diseases: exosomes characteristics and a promising role in early diagnosis

S Rastogi, V Sharma, PS Bharti, K Rani… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) remains to be one of the biggest burdens on healthcare
systems and serves as a leading cause of disability and death. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is …