News tagged with gehrig s disease
Exercise may slow progression of ALS
University of Alberta researchers are looking at exercise as a new way to slow the degenerative processes of ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Heavy metal paradox could point toward new therapy for Lou Gehrig's disease
New discoveries have been made about how an elevated level of lead, which is a neurotoxic heavy metal, can slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease - findings that could point the way ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Smoking may now be considered an established risk factor for Lou Gehrig's disease
While previous studies have indicated a "probable" connection between smoking and ALS, a new study published in the Nov. 17, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, states that s ...
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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Mysterious cells may play role in ALS
(PhysOrg.com) -- By tracking the fate of a group of immature cells that persist in the adult brain and spinal cord, Johns Hopkins researchers discovered in mice that these cells undergo dramatic changes in ALS, also known ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Breakthrough with mutant gene that causes familial form of Lou Gehrig's disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that eventually destroys most motor neurons, causing muscle weakness and atrophy throughout the body. There is no cure and the current treatment has ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Malfunctioning gene associated with Lou Gehrig's disease leads to nerve-cell death in mice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are characterized by protein clumps in brain and spinal-cord cells that include an ...
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Jan 04, 2011 |
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