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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2019

ROCK-ALS: Protocol for a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Phase IIa Trial of Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of the Rho Kinase (ROCK) Inhibitor Fasudil in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Paul Lingor, Markus Weber, William Camu, Tim Friede, Reinhard Hilgers, Andreas Leha, Christoph Neuwirth, René Günther, Michael Benatar, Magdalena Kuzma-Kozakiewicz and 6 more

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In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03792490 (Inhibition of Rho Kinase), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03792490 phase2completednot on this map

Inhibition of Rho Kinase (ROCK) With Fasudil as Disease-modifying Treatment for ALS

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Medical Center GoettingenRan2019 to 2023Enrolled120ConditionsAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisArmsFasudil, Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The landscape of neurophysiological outcome measures in ALS interventional trials: A systematic review.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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  18. TRPV4: A trigger of pathological RhoA activation in neurological disease.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 9 institutions in 5 countries.

Paul LingorDepartment of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Markus WeberNeuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Clinic, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St., Gallen, Switzerland.
William CamuReference Center for ALS and Other Rare Motoneuron Disorders, University Hospital Gui de Chauliac, Montpellier, France.
Tim FriedeDepartment of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Reinhard HilgersDepartment of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Andreas LehaDepartment of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Christoph NeuwirthNeuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Clinic, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St., Gallen, Switzerland.
René GüntherDepartment of Neurology, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Michael BenatarDepartment of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States.
Magdalena Kuzma-KozakiewiczDepartment of Neurology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Helen BidnerMünchner Studienzentrum, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Christiane BlankensteinMünchner Studienzentrum, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Roberto FrontiniPharmacy at the University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany.
Albert LudolphDepartment of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Jan C KochDepartment of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
ROCK-ALS Investigators
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen · DETechnical University of Munich · DEKantonsspital St. Gallen · CHGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DEHôpital Gui de Chauliac · FRLeipzig University · DEMedical University of Warsaw · PLUniversität Ulm · DEUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

Uncovering new genes and disease modifiers for ALS and related disordersU54NS092091 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Michael Benatar · 2014 to 2026
$19.8M
NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS092091
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

amyotrophic lateral sclerosisclinical trial protocoldisease-modificationROCK inhibitionstudy design

Identifiers

PMID30972018
PMCPMC6446974
OpenAlexW2937644559

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