Vascular endothelial growth factor gene transfer for diabetic polyneuropathy

✍ Scribed by John A. Kessler

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 49 KB
• Volume: 65
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/ana.21686

✦ Synopsis

of PON activity 7 -is formaldehyde, 13 exposure to which we recently found to be associated with an increased risk of ALS. 14 Conclusions will have to await further studies, but what is clear from the investigation by Gallo et al is that the research fires around the role of cigarette smoking in ALS are heating up. Most importantly, the increasing number of large longitudinal investigations of risk factors, combined with the ongoing efforts to identify susceptibility genes, may provide much needed new insights into the possible causes and mechanisms of ALS.