Therapeutic advances in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and rapidly fatal neurodegenerative disease in which both upper and lower motoneurones are involved. The recent discovery of mutations affecting the superoxide dismutase (SOD) gene has given impetus to research on the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of familial ALS, while further evidence for a role of excitotoxicity in the disease process has...

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