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A strategy for developing effective amyotropic lateral sclerosis pharmacotherapy: from clinical trials to novel pharmacotherapeutic strategies.
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy - 1 Aug 2008
Yamamoto Masahiko, Tanaka Fumiaki, Tatsumi Hiroshi, Sobue Gen
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BACKGROUND: The pathomechanism of sporadic amyotropic lateral sclerosis is not clearly understood, although a proportion of familial amyotropic lateral sclerosis is caused by superoxide dismutase 1 mutations. Theories based on studies of human post-mortem tissue, research on animal models and in vitro work have been proposed for the pathogenesis of amyotropic lateral sclerosis, but the pathogenesis is not the...
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