Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a multifactorial disease.

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is probably biphasic. An initial trigger(s) is followed by a terminal cascade coinciding with the onset of neurological deficits. The terminal cascade involves interactive multifactorial pathogenic mechanisms. Aging must play a crucial role leading to multiple defective or degraded gene products accumulating with progressing years. This in turn leads to failure of receptor...

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