Clinical efficacy of edaravone for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 735-738

  Sawada, Hideyuki ^a  

^a UTANO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

clinical trial; motor neuron; nitric oxide; Oxidative stress; radical scavenger

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; NORPHENAZONE; RILUZOLE; 3-NITROTYROSINE; PHENAZONE; PHENYLMETHYLPYRAZOLONE; SCAVENGER; TYROSINE;

ALS FUNCTIONAL RATING SCALE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RATING SCALE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; ANTIPYRINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYROSINE;

EID: 85018869033     PISSN: 14656566     EISSN: 17447666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14656566.2017.1319937     Document Type: Article

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