Neurofilament proteins as biomarkers to monitor neurological diseases and the efficacy of therapies

A Yuan, RA Nixon - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biomarkers of neurodegeneration and neuronal injury have the potential to improve
diagnostic accuracy, disease monitoring, prognosis, and measure treatment efficacy …

Blood neurofilament light: a critical review of its application to neurologic disease

C Barro, T Chitnis, HL Weiner - Annals of clinical and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Neuronal injury is a universal event that occurs in disease processes that affect both the
central and peripheral nervous systems. A blood biomarker linked to neuronal injury would …

Neurofilament light chain in serum for the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

F Verde, P Steinacker, JH Weishaupt… - Journal of Neurology …, 2019 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective To determine the diagnostic and prognostic performance of serum neurofilament
light chain (NFL) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods This single-centre …

RNA dysregulation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Z Butti, SA Patten - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease
and is characterized by the degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons. It has become …

ALS: a disease of motor neurons and their nonneuronal neighbors

S Boillée, CV Velde, DW Cleveland - Neuron, 2006 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a late-onset progressive neurodegenerative disease
affecting motor neurons. The etiology of most ALS cases remains unknown, but 2% of …

Oxidative stress in ALS: key role in motor neuron injury and therapeutic target

SC Barber, PJ Shaw - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2010 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder
characterized by death of motor neurons leading to muscle wasting, paralysis, and death …

Cytoplasmic mislocalization of TDP-43 is toxic to neurons and enhanced by a mutation associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SJ Barmada, G Skibinski, E Korb, EJ Rao… - Journal of …, 2010 - jneurosci.org
Mutations in the gene encoding TDP-43—the major protein component of neuronal
aggregates characteristic of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar …

ALS pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches: the role of mesenchymal stem cells and extracellular vesicles

R Bonafede, R Mariotti - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by
progressive muscle paralysis determined by the degeneration of motoneurons in the motor …

Consensus criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal cognitive and behavioural syndromes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MJ Strong, GM Grace, M Freedman… - Amyotrophic Lateral …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is increasingly recognized to be a multisystem disorder
which includes both clinical and neuropathological features of a frontotemporal lobar …

Diagnostic and prognostic performance of neurofilaments in ALS

K Poesen, P Van Damme - Frontiers in neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
There is a need for biomarkers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), to support the
diagnosis of the disease, to predict disease progression and to track disease activity and …