Preserving nerve cells in motor neurone disease

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 07:14 in Health & Medicine

A team of researchers, led by Scott Oakes, at the University of California, San Francisco, has identified a way to prevent symptom onset, weight loss, and paralysis and extend survival in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), providing a new avenue of research for the development of therapeutics for ALS and other motor neurone diseases...

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