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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2022

Altered Bioenergetics and Metabolic Homeostasis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Andrew T Nelson, Davide Trotti

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Systemic brain-body metabolic coupling patterns in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a whole-body [European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026
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  7. Loss of Nuclear TDP-43 Impairs Lipid Metabolism in Microglia-Like Cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  11. Drug repurposing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Expert opinion on drug discovery · 2025
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  15. Trimetazidine Improves Mitochondrial Dysfunction in SOD1International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  20. The Evolving Landscape of Motor Neuron Disease Therapeutics.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew T NelsonJefferson Weinberg ALS Center, Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, 900 Walnut Street, JHN Bldg., 4th floor, room 416, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA.
Davide TrottiJefferson Weinberg ALS Center, Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, 900 Walnut Street, JHN Bldg., 4th floor, room 416, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA. davide.trotti@jefferson.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6338-6404
Thomas Jefferson University · US

Funding

Exosome-mediated propagation of disease linked poly-dipeptides in C9orf72-FTD/ALSRF1AG057882 · NIA · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI TROTTI, DAVIDE, YANG, YONGJIE · 2018 to 2018
$3.6M
Metabolic perturbations as a modifier of repeat-associated non-AUG translation in C9orf72-linked ALS/FTDF31NS118838 · NINDS · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI NELSON, ANDREW · 2020 to 2021
$92k
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG057882NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS118838
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects motor neurons and causes muscle atrophy, paralysis, and death. While a great deal of progress has been made in deciphering the underlying pathogenic mechanisms, no effective treatments for the disease are currently available. This is mainly due to the high degree of complexity and heterogeneity that characterizes the disease. Over the last few decades of research, alterations to bioenergetic and metabolic homeostasis have emerged as a common denominator across many different forms of ALS. These alterations are found at the cellular level (e.g., mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired expression of monocarboxylate transporters) and at the systemic level (e.g., low BMI and hypermetabolism) and tend to be associated with survival or disease outcomes in patients. Furthermore, an increasing amount of preclinical evidence and some promising clinical evidence suggests that targeting energy metabolism could be an effective therapeutic strategy. This review examines the evidence both for and against these ALS-associated metabolic alterations and highlights potential avenues for therapeutic intervention.

Indexed as

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisNeurodegenerative DiseasesEnergy MetabolismHomeostasisHumansMotor NeuronsALSATPGlucoseGlycolysisLipidsMetabolism

Identifiers

PMID35773551
PMCPMC9587161
OpenAlexW4283720179

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