The role of SIGMAR1 gene mutation and mitochondrial dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

• Main Authors: Kohji Fukunaga (Author), Yasuharu Shinoda (Author), Hideaki Tagashira (Author)
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• 出版: Elsevier, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients exhibit diverse pathologies such as endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in motor neurons. Five to ten percent of patients have familial ALS, a form of the disease caused by mutations in ALS-related genes, while sporadic forms o...