Oxidative Stress in ALS and the Use of Edaravone to Delay Disease Progression
Brianna Basinger Introduction. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressively fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness, atrophy, and death due to respiratory failure.1,2 Despite the disease’s discovery in 1869, the exact cause of ALS is still unknown and there is no cure.1 Previous studies have shown that oxidative stress…