Futurity.org » amyotrophic lateral sclerosis http://www.futurity.org Research news from leading universities Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Compound appears to slow ALS progression http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/compound-appears-to-slow-als-progression/ http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/compound-appears-to-slow-als-progression/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:23:50 +0000 Tom Rickey-Rochester http://futurity.org/?p=5016

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Berislav Zlokovic is part of a team working to develop a therapy to treat Lou Gehrig’s disease.

U. ROCHESTER (US)—A chemical cousin of a drug currently used to treat sepsis dramatically slows the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in mice.

The results offer a bit of good news in efforts to develop a therapy to stop or slow the progression of a disease that generally kills its victims within just a few years.

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