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ReviewNature reviews. Neurology2025

Targeting common disease pathomechanisms to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Kiterie M E Faller, Helena Chaytow, Thomas H Gillingwater

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Review in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

3 authors.

Kiterie M E Faller *Edinburgh Medical School, Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4525-7059
Helena Chaytow *Edinburgh Medical School, Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2257-7620
Thomas H GillingwaterEdinburgh Medical School, Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. t.gillingwater@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0306-5577

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating condition with limited treatment options. The past few years have witnessed a ramping up of translational ALS research, offering the prospect of disease-modifying therapies. Although breakthroughs using gene-targeted approaches have shown potential to treat patients with specific disease-causing mutations, the applicability of such therapies remains restricted to a minority of individuals. Therapies targeting more general mechanisms that underlie motor neuron pathology in ALS are therefore of considerable interest. ALS pathology is associated with disruption to a complex array of key cellular pathways, including RNA processing, proteostasis, metabolism and inflammation. This Review details attempts to restore cellular homeostasis by targeting these pathways in order to develop effective, broadly-applicable ALS therapeutics.

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Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAnimalsHumans

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