ALS Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a late-onset fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons with an incidence of about 1/100,000. Most ALS cases are sporadic, but 5–10% of the cases are familial ALS. Both sporadic (SALS) and familial ALS (FALS) are associated with degeneration of cortical and spinal motor neurons.⁽¹⁾ The causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are only partly known, but they include some environmental risk factors as well as several genes that have been identified as harbouring disease-associated variation.⁽²⁾ Genetic studies have implicated deficits in autophagy and/or mitophagy in the onset of the disease.⁽³⁾ So far, there is no breakthrough for the treatment of ALS. The main treatments are neuroprotective treatment, symptomatic and supportive treatment as well as some unproven disease-modifying therapies such as stem cell transplantation and gene therapy.⁽⁴⁾

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References

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