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  2. ALS - Wikipedia

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    ALS is the most common form of the motor neuron diseases. [8] ALS often presents in its early stages with gradual muscle stiffness, twitches, weakness, and wasting. [3] Motor neuron loss typically continues until the abilities to eat, speak, move, and, lastly, breathe are all lost. [3]

  3. Category:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease. It is a specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles. ALS is characterized by stiff muscles, muscle twitching, and gradually worsening weakness due to muscles decreasing in size.

  4. Motor neuron diseases - Wikipedia

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    About 95% of ALS patients have abnormalities in the nucleus-cytoplasmic localization in spinal motor neurons of TDP43. In TDP-43 depleted human neural stem cell-derived motor neurons, as well as in sporadic ALS patients' spinal cord specimens there is significant double-strand break accumulation and reduced levels of NHEJ.

  5. My Years of Leg Pain Turned Out to Be ALS: Why the ... - AOL

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    Brooke Eby was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, at 33 years old. It took four years for doctors to identify her condition; at the time, her primary symptom was a tightness in her calf ...

  6. Primary lateral sclerosis - Wikipedia

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    Like ALS, diagnosing PLS is a diagnosis of exclusion, as there is no one test that can confirm a diagnosis of PLS. The Pringle Criteria, [11] proposed by Pringle et al., provides a guideline of nine points that, if confirmed, can suggest a diagnosis of PLS. Due to the fact that a person with ALS may initially present with only upper motor ...

  7. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research - Wikipedia

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    Familial ALS is the most studied; however, a new technique that was recently introduced is the use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). [2] In this study the researcher can isolate skin fibroblast from a patient with familial or sporadic ALS and reprogram them into motor neuron to study ALS. [2]

  8. 7 Early Signs of Hair Thinning & How to Stop It - AOL

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    The first signs of hair loss can vary from person to person. So while you might have a family history of androgenetic alopecia (also known as male pattern baldness or female pattern hair loss), it ...

  9. With puberty starting earlier than ever, doctors urge greater ...

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    Precocious puberty on the rise. In the mid-19th century, girls had their first periods — which typically come about two years after they begin to show signs of breasts or pubic hair — at age ...

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