Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: An aging-related disease

Current Geriatrics Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 142-153

  Logroscino, Giancarlo ^a   Tortelli, Rosanna ^a   Rizzo, Giovanni ^a   Marin, Benoît ^b   Preux, Pierre Marie ^b   Malaspina, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Biomarkers; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Frontotemporal dementia; Genetics; Incidence; Motor neuron disease; Neurodegenerative disorder; Nutrition; Phenotype; Population based studies; Prognosis; Randomized controlled trial; Respiratory insufficiency; Sex ratio; Staging; Superoxide dismutase 1; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIN; ATAXIN 2; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FUSED IN SARCOMA PROTEIN; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; OPTINEURIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROFILIN 1; SYNAPTOBREVIN; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UBIQUILIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALOSIN CONTAINING PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84929150329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21967865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13670-015-0127-8     Document Type: Article

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