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SUBMITTER: McCombe PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7186478 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCombe Pamela A PA Lee John D JD Woodruff Trent M TM Henderson Robert D RD
Frontiers in neurology 20200421
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe neurodegenerative disease that is defined by loss of upper and lower motor neurons, associated with accumulation of protein aggregates in cells. There is also pathology in extra-motor areas of the brain, Possible causes of cell death include failure to deal with the aggregated proteins, glutamate toxicity and mitochondrial failure. ALS also involves abnormalities of metabolism and the immune system, including neuroinflammation in the brain and spin ...[more]