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Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) Learning Center
Causes could include:
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No known cause
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In ALS, nerve cells (neurons) waste away or die, and can no longer send messages to muscles. This eventually leads to muscle weakening, twitching, and an inability to move the arms, legs, and body. The condition slowly gets worse. When the muscles...
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The symptoms of Lou Gehrig's disease are caused by the death of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain. Normally, these neurons convey electrical messages from the brain to the muscles to stimulate movement in the arms, legs, trunk, neck, and ...
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In 1991 a team of ALSA researchers linked familial ALS to chromosome 21. In 1993 it was found that there were structural defects in the SOD1 (superoxide dismutase) gene on chromosome 21. The SOD1 gene is an enzyme that protects the motor neurons f...
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In 1991 a team of ALSA researchers linked familial ALS to chromosome 21. In 1993 it was found that there were structural defects in the SOD1 (superoxide dismutase) gene on chromosome 21. The SOD1 gene is an enzyme that protects the motor neurons f...
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The symptoms of ALS are caused by the death of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain. Normally, these neurons convey electrical messages from the brain to the muscles to stimulate movement in the arms, legs, trunk, neck, and head. As motor ne...
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The symptoms of ALS are caused by the death of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain. Normally, these neurons convey electrical messages from the brain to the muscles to stimulate movement in the arms, legs, trunk, neck, and head. As motor ne...
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