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Khamaysa M, Lefort M, Pélégrini-Issac M, Lackmy-Vallée A, Mendili MME, Preuilh A, Devos D, Bruneteau G, Salachas F, Lenglet T, Amador MM, Le Forestier N, Hesters A, Gonzalez J, Rolland AS, Desnuelle C, Chupin M, Querin G, Georges M, Morelot-Panzini C, Marchand-Pauvert V, Pradat PF. Quantitative brainstem and spinal MRI in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: implications for predicting noninvasive ventilation needs. J Neurol 2024; 271:1235-1246. [PMID: 37910250 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-023-12045-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 10/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Respiratory complications resulting from motor neurons degeneration are the primary cause of death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Predicting the need for non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in ALS is important for advance care planning and clinical trial design. The aim of this study was to assess the potential of quantitative MRI at the brainstem and spinal cord levels to predict the need for NIV during the first six months after diagnosis. METHODS Forty-one ALS patients underwent MRI and spirometry shortly after diagnosis. The need for NIV was monitored according to French health guidelines for 6 months. The performance of four regression models based on: clinical variables, brainstem structures volumes, cervical spinal measurements, and combined variables were compared to predict the need for NIV within this period. RESULTS Both the clinical model (R2 = 0.28, AUC = 0.85, AICc = 42.67, BIC = 49.8) and the brainstem structures' volumes model (R2 = 0.30, AUC = 0.85, AICc = 40.13, BIC = 46.99) demonstrated good predictive performance. In addition, cervical spinal cord measurements model similar performance (R2 = 0.338, AUC = 0.87, AICc = 37.99, BIC = 44.49). Notably, the combined model incorporating predictors from all three models yielded the best performance (R2 = 0.60, AUC = 0.959, AICc = 36.38, BIC = 44.8). These findings are supported by observed positive correlations between brainstem volumes, cervical (C4/C7) cross-sectional area, and spirometry-measured lung volumes. CONCLUSIONS Our study shows that brainstem volumes and spinal cord area are promising measures to predict respiratory intervention needs in ALS.
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- M Khamaysa
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
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- APHM, Hôpital Timone, CEMEREM, Marseille, France
- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CRMBM, Marseille, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre Référent SLA, CHU de Lille, Centre LICEND COEN, ACT4-ALS-MND network, Lille, France
- Départment de Pharmacologie Médicale, Université de Lille, INSERM UMRS_1172 LilNCog, CHU de Lille, Centre LICEND COEN, ACT4-ALS-MND network, Lille, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre Référent SLA, Paris, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre Référent SLA, Paris, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre Référent SLA, Paris, France
- Faculté de Médecine de Nice, Département de Neurologie, Université Cote d'Azur, Nice, France
- Département de Neurophysiologie, APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre Référent SLA, Paris, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre Référent SLA, Paris, France
- Département de Recherche en Éthique, EA 1610: Etudes des Sciences et Techniques, Université Paris Sud/Paris Saclay, Paris, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre Référent SLA, Paris, France
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- Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, INSERM UMRS1158, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Départment de Pharmacologie Médicale, Université de Lille, INSERM UMRS_1172 LilNCog, CHU de Lille, Centre LICEND COEN, ACT4-ALS-MND network, Lille, France
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- Faculté de Médecine de Nice, Département de Neurologie, Université Cote d'Azur, Nice, France
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- CATI, Plateforme d'Imagerie Neurologique Multicentrique, Paris, France
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- APHP, Service de Neuromyologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre Référent Pour les Maladies Neuromusculaires Rares, Paris, France
- Institut de Myologie, Plateforme d'essais cliniques I-Motion, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Département des Maladies Respiratoires et Soins Intensifs, Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Pulmonaires Rares, Hôpital Universitaire de Dijon-Bourgogne, Dijon, France
- Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
- Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, UMR 6265 CNRS 1234 INRA, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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- Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, INSERM UMRS1158, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Service de Pneumologie (Département R3S), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France.
- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre Référent SLA, Paris, France.
- Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute Ulster University, C-TRIC, Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry, Londonderry, UK.
- Institut pour la Recherche sur la Moelle Epinière et l'encephale (IRME), 15 rue Duranton, 75015, Paris, France.
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Guissart C, De la Cruz E, Flabeau O, Grapperon AM, Corazza G, Junilhon L, Delmas JC, Millecamps S, Polge A, Amador MDM, Salachas F, Rochat J, Goizet C, Juntas Morales R, Lumbroso S, Philibert P, Cheillan D, Mouzat K. Heterozygous SPTLC1 p.Leu39del is a major cause of slow-progressing juvenile ALS. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2024; 95:288-290. [PMID: 38041669 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-331753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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- Claire Guissart
- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHU Nimes, Univ Montpellier, Nîmes, France
- The Neuroscience Institute of Montpellier, INM, INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Neurology, Montpellier University Hospital Center, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Compétence des Maladies Neuromusculaires de Bayonne, Centre Hospitalier de la Cote Basque, Bayonne, France
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- Reference Center for Neuromuscular Diseases and ALS, Timone University Hospital, Marseille, France
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- Reference Center for Neuromuscular Diseases and ALS, Timone University Hospital, Marseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHU Nimes, Univ Montpellier, Nîmes, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHU Nimes, Univ Montpellier, Nîmes, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHU Nimes, Univ Montpellier, Nîmes, France
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- Centre référent SLA, Département de Neurologie, APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Centre référent SLA, Département de Neurologie, APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Service de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, Centre de Biologie et de Pathologie Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France
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- Rare Diseases Laboratory: Genetics and Metabolism (MRGM), INSERM U1211, Bordeaux University, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Neurology, Montpellier University Hospital Center, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHU Nimes, Univ Montpellier, Nîmes, France
- The Neuroscience Institute of Montpellier, INM, INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHU Nimes, Univ Montpellier, Nîmes, France
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- Service de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, Centre de Biologie et de Pathologie Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France
- Laboratoire CarMeN - Cardiovasculaire Métabolisme diabétologie et Nutrition, Inserm U1060, INRAE UMR1397, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Pierre-Bénite, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHU Nimes, Univ Montpellier, Nîmes, France
- The Neuroscience Institute of Montpellier, INM, INSERM, Montpellier, France
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Georges M, Perez T, Rabec C, Jacquin L, Finet-Monnier A, Ramos C, Patout M, Attali V, Amador M, Gonzalez-Bermejo J, Salachas F, Morelot-Panzini C. Proposals from a French expert panel for respiratory care in ALS patients. Respir Med Res 2022; 81:100901. [PMID: 35378353 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmer.2022.100901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2021] [Revised: 02/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive diaphragm weakness and deteriorating lung function. Bulbar involvement and cough weakness contribute to respiratory morbidity and mortality. ALS-related respiratory failure significantly affects quality of life and is the leading cause of death. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV), which is the main recognized treatment for alleviating the symptoms of respiratory failure, prolongs survival and improves quality of life. However, the optimal timing for the initiation of NIV is still a matter of debate. NIV is a complex intervention. Multiple factors influence the efficacy of NIV and patient adherence. The aim of this work was to develop practical evidence-based advices to standardize the respiratory care of ALS patients in French tertiary care centres. METHODS For each proposal, a French expert panel systematically searched an indexed bibliography and prepared a written literature review that was then shared and discussed. A combined draft was prepared by the chairman for further discussion. All of the proposals were unanimously approved by the expert panel. RESULTS The French expert panel updated the criteria for initiating NIV in ALS patients. The most recent criteria were established in 2005. Practical advice for NIV initiation were included and the value of each tool available for NIV monitoring was reviewed. A strategy to optimize NIV parameters was suggested. Revisions were also suggested for the use of mechanically assisted cough devices in ALS patients. CONCLUSION Our French expert panel proposes an evidence-based review to update the respiratory care recommendations for ALS patients in daily practice.
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- M Georges
- Department of Respiratory Diseases and Intensive Care, Reference Center for Adult Rare Pulmonary Diseases, University Hospital of Dijon-Bourgogne, Dijon, France; University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon France; Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, UMR 6265 CNRS 1234 INRA, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France.
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- Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospital of Lille, Lille, France; Centre for Infection and Immunity of Lille, INSERM U1019-UMR9017, University of Lille Nord de France, Lille, France
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- Department of Respiratory Diseases and Intensive Care, Reference Center for Adult Rare Pulmonary Diseases, University Hospital of Dijon-Bourgogne, Dijon, France; University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon France
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- Clinical Training Manager for ResMed SAS company, Saint-Priest, France
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- Department of Neuromuscular Disorders and ALS, University Hospital of Timone, Marseille, France
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- CRMR SLA-MNM, Hôpital Pasteur 2, University Hospital of Nice, Nice, France
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- Service des Pathologies du Sommeil (Département R3S), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France; Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, INSERM UMRS1158, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Service des Pathologies du Sommeil (Département R3S), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France; Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, INSERM UMRS1158, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Neurology Department, Paris ALS center, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, INSERM UMRS1158, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Service de Pneumologie (Département R3S), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Neurology Department, Paris ALS center, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, INSERM UMRS1158, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Service de Pneumologie (Département R3S), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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Le Gall L, Duddy WJ, Martinat C, Mariot V, Connolly O, Milla V, Anakor E, Ouandaogo ZG, Millecamps S, Lainé J, Vijayakumar UG, Knoblach S, Raoul C, Lucas O, Loeffler JP, Bede P, Behin A, Blasco H, Bruneteau G, Del Mar Amador M, Devos D, Henriques A, Hesters A, Lacomblez L, Laforet P, Langlet T, Leblanc P, Le Forestier N, Maisonobe T, Meininger V, Robelin L, Salachas F, Stojkovic T, Querin G, Dumonceaux J, Butler Browne G, González De Aguilar JL, Duguez S, Pradat PF. Muscle cells of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients secrete neurotoxic vesicles. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle 2022; 13:1385-1402. [PMID: 35194965 PMCID: PMC8978001 DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2020] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The cause of the motor neuron (MN) death that drives terminal pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) remains unknown, and it is thought that the cellular environment of the MN may play a key role in MN survival. Several lines of evidence implicate vesicles in ALS, including that extracellular vesicles may carry toxic elements from astrocytes towards MNs, and that pathological proteins have been identified in circulating extracellular vesicles of sporadic ALS patients. Because MN degeneration at the neuromuscular junction is a feature of ALS, and muscle is a vesicle-secretory tissue, we hypothesized that muscle vesicles may be involved in ALS pathology. METHODS Sporadic ALS patients were confirmed to be ALS according to El Escorial criteria and were genotyped to test for classic gene mutations associated with ALS, and physical function was assessed using the ALSFRS-R score. Muscle biopsies of either mildly affected deltoids of ALS patients (n = 27) or deltoids of aged-matched healthy subjects (n = 30) were used for extraction of muscle stem cells, to perform immunohistology, or for electron microscopy. Muscle stem cells were characterized by immunostaining, RT-qPCR, and transcriptomic analysis. Secreted muscle vesicles were characterized by proteomic analysis, Western blot, NanoSight, and electron microscopy. The effects of muscle vesicles isolated from the culture medium of ALS and healthy myotubes were tested on healthy human-derived iPSC MNs and on healthy human myotubes, with untreated cells used as controls. RESULTS An accumulation of multivesicular bodies was observed in muscle biopsies of sporadic ALS patients by immunostaining and electron microscopy. Study of muscle biopsies and biopsy-derived denervation-naïve differentiated muscle stem cells (myotubes) revealed a consistent disease signature in ALS myotubes, including intracellular accumulation of exosome-like vesicles and disruption of RNA-processing. Compared with vesicles from healthy control myotubes, when administered to healthy MNs the vesicles of ALS myotubes induced shortened, less branched neurites, cell death, and disrupted localization of RNA and RNA-processing proteins. The RNA-processing protein FUS and a majority of its binding partners were present in ALS muscle vesicles, and toxicity was dependent on the expression level of FUS in recipient cells. Toxicity to recipient MNs was abolished by anti-CD63 immuno-blocking of vesicle uptake. CONCLUSIONS ALS muscle vesicles are shown to be toxic to MNs, which establishes the skeletal muscle as a potential source of vesicle-mediated toxicity in ALS.
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- Laura Le Gall
- Northern Ireland Center for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Londonderry, UK.,Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Association Institut de Myologie, Centre de Recherche en Myologie, Paris, France
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- Northern Ireland Center for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Londonderry, UK
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Northern Ireland Center for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Londonderry, UK
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- Northern Ireland Center for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Londonderry, UK
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- Northern Ireland Center for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Londonderry, UK
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Association Institut de Myologie, Centre de Recherche en Myologie, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Association Institut de Myologie, Centre de Recherche en Myologie, Paris, France
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- Northern Ireland Center for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Londonderry, UK
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- Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- The Neuroscience Institute of Montpellier, Inserm UMR1051, Univ Montpellier, Saint Eloi Hospital, Montpellier, France
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- The Neuroscience Institute of Montpellier, Inserm UMR1051, Univ Montpellier, Saint Eloi Hospital, Montpellier, France
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- Mécanismes Centraux et Périphériques de la Neurodégénérescence, Université de Strasbourg, INSERM UMR_S 1118, Strasbourg, France
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- Computational Neuroimaging Group, Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.,CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.,APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- APHP, Centre de Référence des Maladies Neuromusculaires Nord/Est/Ile de France, Institut de Myologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, Hôpital Bretonneau, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Association Institut de Myologie, Centre de Recherche en Myologie, Paris, France.,APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- INSERM U1171, Pharmacologie Médicale & Neurologie Université, Faculté de Médecine, CHU de Lille, Lille, France
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- Mécanismes Centraux et Périphériques de la Neurodégénérescence, Université de Strasbourg, INSERM UMR_S 1118, Strasbourg, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.,APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence Maladies Neuromusculaires Paris-Est, Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, Garches, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Cell, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- Mécanismes Centraux et Périphériques de la Neurodégénérescence, Université de Strasbourg, INSERM UMR_S 1118, Strasbourg, France
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- APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- APHP, Centre de Référence des Maladies Neuromusculaires Nord/Est/Ile de France, Institut de Myologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.,APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Association Institut de Myologie, Centre de Recherche en Myologie, Paris, France
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- Mécanismes Centraux et Périphériques de la Neurodégénérescence, Université de Strasbourg, INSERM UMR_S 1118, Strasbourg, France
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- Northern Ireland Center for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Londonderry, UK
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- Northern Ireland Center for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Londonderry, UK.,CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.,APHP, Département de Neurologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre référent SLA, Paris, France
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Assouline A, Schernberg A, del Mar Amador M, Morelot-Panzini C, Gonzalez-Bermejo J, Lenglet T, Forestier NL, Bruneteau G, Hesters A, Salachas F, Delanian S, Pradat P. A Retrospective Analysis of 235 Patients and 281 Radiotherapy Plans for Sialorrhea Treatment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinson Patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Muratet F, Teyssou E, Chiot A, Boillée S, Lobsiger CS, Bohl D, Gyorgy B, Guegan J, Marie Y, Amador MDM, Salachas F, Meininger V, Bernard E, Antoine JC, Camdessanché JP, Camu W, Cazeneuve C, Fauret-Amsellem AL, Leguern E, Mouzat K, Guissart C, Lumbroso S, Corcia P, Vourc'h P, Grapperon AM, Attarian S, Verschueren A, Seilhean D, Millecamps S. Impact of a frequent nearsplice SOD1 variant in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: optimising SOD1 genetic screening for gene therapy opportunities. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2021; 92:942-949. [PMID: 33785574 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-325921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 gene (SOD1), encoding copper/zinc superoxide dismutase protein, are the second most frequent high penetrant genetic cause for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) motor neuron disease in populations of European descent. More than 200 missense variants are reported along the SOD1 protein. To limit the production of these aberrant and deleterious SOD1 species, antisense oligonucleotide approaches have recently emerged and showed promising effects in clinical trials. To offer the possibility to any patient with SOD1-ALS to benefit of such a gene therapy, it is necessary to ascertain whether any variant of unknown significance (VUS), detected for example in SOD1 non-coding sequences, is pathogenic. METHODS We analysed SOD1 mutation distribution after SOD1 sequencing in a large cohort of 470 French familial ALS (fALS) index cases. RESULTS We identified a total of 27 SOD1 variants in 38 families including two SOD1 variants located in nearsplice or intronic regions of the gene. The pathogenicity of the c.358-10T>G nearsplice SOD1 variant was corroborated based on its high frequency (as the second most frequent SOD1 variant) in French fALS, the segregation analysis confirmed in eight affected members of a large pedigree, the typical SOD1-related phenotype observed (with lower limb onset and prominent lower motor neuron involvement), and findings on postmortem tissues showing SOD1 misaccumulation. CONCLUSIONS Our results highlighted nearsplice/intronic mutations in SOD1 are responsible for a significant portion of French fALS and suggested the systematic analysis of the SOD1 mRNA sequence could become the method of choice for SOD1 screening, not to miss these specific cases.
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- François Muratet
- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France.,AP-HP, Département de Neurologie, Centre de référence SLA Ile de France, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- AP-HP, Département de Neurologie, Centre de référence SLA Ile de France, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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- Hôpital des Peupliers, Ramsay General Health Group, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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- Centre de référence SLA, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Bron, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.,Institut NeuroMyoGène, CNRS UMR5310, INSERM U1217, Faculté de Médecine Rockefeller, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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- Service de Neurologie, Centre de Ressource et de Compétence SLA, Hôpital Nord, CHU de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, Rhône-Alpes, France
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- Service de Neurologie, Centre de Ressource et de Compétence SLA, Hôpital Nord, CHU de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, Rhône-Alpes, France
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- Centre de référence SLA, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHU de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
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- Département de Génétique et Cytogénétique, Unité Fonctionnelle de neurogénétique moléculaire et cellulaire, APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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- Département de Génétique et Cytogénétique, Unité Fonctionnelle de neurogénétique moléculaire et cellulaire, APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France.,Département de Génétique et Cytogénétique, Unité Fonctionnelle de neurogénétique moléculaire et cellulaire, APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire, CHU Nimes, Nîmes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.,Motoneuron Disease: Pathophysiology and Therapy, INM, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire, CHU Nimes, Nîmes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.,Motoneuron Disease: Pathophysiology and Therapy, INM, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire, CHU Nimes, Nîmes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.,Motoneuron Disease: Pathophysiology and Therapy, INM, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
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- Centre de référence SLA, Département de Neurologie, CHRU Tours, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France.,UMR 1253, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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- UMR 1253, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France.,Service de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CHU Tours, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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- Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Neuromusculaire et la SLA, Hôpital de la Timone, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, CHU de Marseille, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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- Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Neuromusculaire et la SLA, Hôpital de la Timone, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, CHU de Marseille, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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- Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Neuromusculaire et la SLA, Hôpital de la Timone, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, CHU de Marseille, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France.,Département de Neuropathologie, APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM,Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, Île de France, France
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Assouline A, Schernberg A, del Mar Amador M, Morelot-Panzini C, Gonzalez-Bermejo J, Lenglet T, Le Forestier N, Bruneteau G, Salachas F, Delanian S, Pradat P. OC-0409 Salivary gland Radiotherapy for Sialorrhea Treatment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients. Radiother Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(21)06896-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Corcia P, Camu W, Brulard C, Marouillat S, Couratier P, Camdessanché JP, Cintas P, Verschueren A, Soriani MH, Desnuelle C, Fleury MC, Guy N, Cassereau J, Viader F, Pittion-Vouyovitch S, Danel V, Kolev I, Le Masson G, Beltran S, Salachas F, Bernard E, Pradat PF, Blasco H, Lanznaster D, Hergesheimer R, Laumonnier F, Andres CR, Meininger V, Vourc'h P. Effect of familial clustering in the genetic screening of 235 French ALS families. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2021; 92:479-484. [PMID: 33408239 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-325064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES To determine whether the familial clustering of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases and the phenotype of the disease may help identify the pathogenic genes involved. METHODS We conducted a targeted next-generation sequencing analysis on 235 French familial ALS (FALS), unrelated probands to identify mutations in 30 genes linked to the disease. The genealogy, that is, number of cases and generations with ALS, gender, age, site of onset and the duration of the disease were analysed. RESULTS Regarding the number of generations, 49 pedigrees had only one affected generation, 152 had two affected generations and 34 had at least three affected generations. Among the 149 pedigrees (63.4%) for which a deleterious variant was found, an abnormal G4C2 expansion in C9orf72 was found in 98 cases as well as SOD1, TARBP or FUS mutations in 30, 9 and 7 cases, respectively. Considering pedigrees from the number of generations, abnormal G4C2 expansion in C9orf72 was more frequent in pedigrees with pairs of affected ALS cases, which represented 65.2% of our cohort. SOD1 mutation involved all types of pedigrees. No TARDBP nor FUS mutation was present in monogenerational pedigrees. TARDBP mutation predominated in bigenerational pedigrees with at least three cases and FUS mutation in multigenerational pedigrees with more than seven cases, on average, and with an age of onset younger than 45 years. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that familial clustering, phenotypes and genotypes are interconnected in FALS, and thus it might be possible to target the genetic screening from the familial architecture and the phenotype of ALS cases.
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- Philippe Corcia
- ALS Centre, Department of Neurology, CHU Tours, Tours, Centre, France .,UMR 1253 Imaging and Brain, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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- Montpellier 2 University, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
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- UMR 1253 Imaging and Brain, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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- ALS Center, Departement of neurology, CHU Limoges, Limoges, Limousin, France.,UMR-S 1094 NET, Limoges, France
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- Neurology, CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France
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- Centre de référence des maladies neuromusculaires et de la SLA, Marseille Public University Hospital System, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azu, France
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- Centre de reference des maladies neuromusculaires SLA, Neurosciences department, CHU Nice, Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azu, France
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- Medical Pharmacology, Lille University Hospital Center, Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
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- Hospital Centre Saint Brieuc, Saint Brieuc, Bretagne, France
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- Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
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- ALS Center, Francois-Rabelais University, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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- ALS Center, Neurology, Hopital Universitaire Pitie Salpetriere, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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- University Hospital Centre Lyon, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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- Fédération de Neurologie, Centre Référent SLA, Hopital Universitaire Pitie Salpetriere, Paris, Île-de-France, France.,CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale (LIB), Université Pierre et Marie Curie Faculté de Médecine, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Université Francois-Rabelais de Tours, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France.,Neurogenetics and Neurometabolomics, Imagerie et cerveau, Tours, France
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Université Francois-Rabelais de Tours, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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- Neurogenetics and Neurometabolomics, Imagerie et cerveau, Tours, France
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Université Francois-Rabelais de Tours, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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Salah AB, Pradat PF, Villain M, Balcerac A, Pradat-Diehl P, Salachas F, Lacomblez L, Bayen E. Anosognosia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A cross-sectional study of 85 individuals and their relatives. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2020; 64:101440. [PMID: 33065300 DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2020.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Revised: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has long been considered a pure motor neurodegenerative disease. However, now, extra-motor manifestations such as cognitive-behavioral disorders are considered not rare and are even a severity factor of the disease. Experiencing anosognosia (i.e., the inability to recognize neurological symptoms) might affect care and treatment compliance in ALS. Regardless, this pivotal feature has been little investigated. OBJECTIVES By comparing patients' and caregivers' reports, we analysed whether patients with ALS would experience a lack of awareness about their executive disorders and their apathy symptoms. METHODS From the ALS reference center in Paris, we included 85 patients (47 men, mean [SD] age 60.5 [12] years and ALS-Functional Rating Scale-revised score 8 to 46) and their primary family caregivers who all completed the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX) and the Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES). Overall scores and answers were compared by agreement/disagreement statistical methods. RESULTS Caregivers reported higher levels of cognitive-behavioral disorders than did patients, but reports matched when cognitive-behavioral disorders were absent or mild. With published DEX and AES cutoffs, 32% and 51% of patients had executive disorders and apathy, respectively. In these patients with significant impairment, Bland-Altman plots (i.e., visual display agreement that represents the difference between the patient's and caregiver's scores as a function of their average) showed a strong discrepancy between joint reports: patients underestimated their symptoms by a mean bias of -6.81 DEX points (95% confidence interval -11.88, -1.75) and -8.85 AES points (95% confidence interval -11.72, -5.98). We found no clear relationship between bulbar or spinal ALS subtypes and anosognosia. CONCLUSIONS ALS patients with a cognitive-behavioral phenotype show anosognosia by a mismatch between self and proxy reports, which warrants further investigation in neuroimaging. Systematic longitudinal screening of anosognosia is needed to propose targeted psychoeducation in patient-caregiver dyads showing disagreement.
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- Amina Ben Salah
- Department of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (AP-HP) and GRC 24 (Sorbonne Université), 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d'imagerie biomédicale (LIB), Sorbonne université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology and Reference ALS Center, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France
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- Department of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (AP-HP) and GRC 24 (Sorbonne Université), 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Department of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (AP-HP) and GRC 24 (Sorbonne Université), 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Department of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (AP-HP) and GRC 24 (Sorbonne Université), 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France; Laboratoire d'imagerie biomédicale (LIB), Sorbonne université, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology and Reference ALS Center, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology and Reference ALS Center, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France
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- Department of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (AP-HP) and GRC 24 (Sorbonne Université), 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France; Laboratoire d'imagerie biomédicale (LIB), Sorbonne université, Paris, France; Global Brain Health Institute, Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
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Querin G, Bede P, Mendili ME, Péllegrini-Issac M, Rinaldi D, Catala M, Saracino D, Salachas F, Camuzat A, Marchand-Pauvert V, Cohen-Adad J, Colliot O, Ber IL, Pradat P, Study Group PREVDEMALS. FROM THE SPINAL CORD TO THE MUSCLE. Neuromuscul Disord 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2020.08.346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lenglet T, Mirault J, Veyrat-Masson M, Funkiewiez A, Amador MDM, Bruneteau G, Le Forestier N, Pradat PF, Salachas F, Vacher Y, Lacomblez L, Lorenceau J. Cursive Eye-Writing With Smooth-Pursuit Eye-Movement Is Possible in Subjects With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:538. [PMID: 31191230 PMCID: PMC6548885 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder causing a progressive motor weakness of all voluntary muscles, whose progression challenges communication modalities such as handwriting or speech. The current study investigated whether ALS subjects can use Eye-On-Line (EOL), a novel eye-operated communication device allowing, after training, to voluntarily control smooth-pursuit eye-movements (SPEM) so as to eye-write in cursive. To that aim, ALS participants (n = 12) with preserved eye-movements but impaired handwriting were trained during six on-site visits. The primary outcome of the study was the recognition of eye-written digits (0-9) from ALS and healthy control subjects by naïve "readers." Changes in oculomotor performance and the safety of EOL were also evaluated. At the end of the program, 69.4% of the eye-written digits from 11 ALS subjects were recognized by naïve readers, similar to the 67.3% found for eye-written digits from controls participants, with however, large inter-individual differences in both groups of "writers." Training with EOL was associated with a transient fatigue leading one ALS subject to drop out the study at the fifth visit. Otherwise, itching eyes was the most common adverse event (3 subjects). This study shows that, despite the impact of ALS on the motor system, most ALS participants could improve their mastering of eye-movements, so as to produce recognizable eye-written digits, although the eye-traces sometimes needed smoothing to ease digit legibility from both ALS subjects and control participants. The capability to endogenously and voluntarily generate eye-traces using EOL brings a novel way to communicate for disabled individuals, allowing creative personal and emotional expression.
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- Timothée Lenglet
- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Département de Neurophysiologie, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs (UMR 8248), Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs (UMR 8248), Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), UMRS 975, ICM-INSERM 1127, FrontLab, Paris, France.,Département de Neurologie, Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer, Centre de Référence National 'Démences Rares', Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Centre de Recherche en Myologie, UMRS974, Equipe 10 NMCONNECT, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Département de Recherche en Éthique, EA 1610: Etude des Sciences et Techniques, Université Paris Sud/Paris Saclay, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France.,Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute Ulster University, C-TRIC, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, United Kingdom
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- Département de Neurologie, Centre de Référence SLA-IdF, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Délégation à la Recherche Clinique et à l'Innovation (DRCI), Hôpital Saint-Louis, APHP, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRS 1127 and CIC-1422, ICM, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Département de Neurologie, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs (UMR 8248), Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, Institut de la Vision, Inserm UMR S 968-CNRS UMR 7210, Paris, France
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Al-Chalabi A, Andersen PM, Chandran S, Chio A, Corcia P, Couratier P, Danielsson O, de Carvalho M, Desnuelle C, Grehl T, Grosskreutz J, Holmøy T, Ingre C, Karlsborg M, Kleveland G, Christoph Koch J, Koritnik B, KuzmaKozakiewicz M, Laaksovirta H, Ludolph A, McDermott C, Meyer T, Mitre Ropero B, Mora Pardina J, Nygren I, Petri S, Povedano Panades M, Salachas F, Shaw P, Silani V, Staaf G, Svenstrup K, Talbot K, Tysnes OB, Van Damme P, van der Kooi A, Weber M, Weydt P, Wolf J, Hardiman O, van den Berg LH. July 2017 ENCALS statement on edaravone. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener 2017; 18:471-474. [DOI: 10.1080/21678421.2017.1369125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ammar Al-Chalabi
- Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeä University, Umeä, Sweden
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- Rita Levi Montalcini’ Department of Neuroscience, ALS Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Centre de compétence SLA-fédération Tours-Limoges, CHU de Tours, Tours, France
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- Centre de compétence SLA-fédération Tours-Limoges, CHU de Limoges, Limoges, Fance
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- Department of Neurology, and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Institute of Physiology-Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
- Department of Neurosciences And Mental Health, H Santa Maria-CHLN, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus, Rüttenscheid, Essen, Germany
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- Hans-Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Kershus Universitetssykehus Lørenskog, Lørenskog, Norway
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- Department of Neurology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Avdeling for nevrologi og klinisk nevrofysiologi, Sykehuset Innlandet, Lillehammer, Norway
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- Department of Neurology, University Medicine Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- ALS Outpatient Department, Charité – Universitä;tsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Neurology-Stroke Unit and Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Center for Neurotechnology and Brain Therapeutics, Università degli Studi di Milano, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, Experimental Neurology, Leuven, Belgium
- VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium
- University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Neurology, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Neuromuscular Diseases Center/ALS Clinic, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Gerontopsychiatry, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Mannheim, Diakonissenkrankenhaus, Mannheim, Germany
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- Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Sproviero W, Shatunov A, Stahl D, Shoai M, van Rheenen W, Jones AR, Al-Sarraj S, Andersen PM, Bonini NM, Conforti FL, Van Damme P, Daoud H, Del Mar Amador M, Fogh I, Forzan M, Gaastra B, Gellera C, Gitler AD, Hardy J, Fratta P, La Bella V, Le Ber I, Van Langenhove T, Lattante S, Lee YC, Malaspina A, Meininger V, Millecamps S, Orrell R, Rademakers R, Robberecht W, Rouleau G, Ross OA, Salachas F, Sidle K, Smith BN, Soong BW, Sorarù G, Stevanin G, Kabashi E, Troakes C, van Broeckhoven C, Veldink JH, van den Berg LH, Shaw CE, Powell JF, Al-Chalabi A. ATXN2 trinucleotide repeat length correlates with risk of ALS. Neurobiol Aging 2017; 51:178.e1-178.e9. [PMID: 28017481 PMCID: PMC5302215 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We investigated a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the ATXN2 gene in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Two new case-control studies, a British dataset of 1474 ALS cases and 567 controls, and a Dutch dataset of 1328 ALS cases and 691 controls were analyzed. In addition, to increase power, we systematically searched PubMed for case-control studies published after 1 August 2010 that investigated the association between ATXN2 intermediate repeats and ALS. We conducted a meta-analysis of the new and existing studies for the relative risks of ATXN2 intermediate repeat alleles of between 24 and 34 CAG trinucleotide repeats and ALS. There was an overall increased risk of ALS for those carrying intermediate sized trinucleotide repeat alleles (odds ratio 3.06 [95% confidence interval 2.37-3.94]; p = 6 × 10-18), with an exponential relationship between repeat length and ALS risk for alleles of 29-32 repeats (R2 = 0.91, p = 0.0002). No relationship was seen for repeat length and age of onset or survival. In contrast to trinucleotide repeat diseases, intermediate ATXN2 trinucleotide repeat expansion in ALS does not predict age of onset but does predict disease risk.
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- William Sproviero
- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical Neuropathology, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Neurology Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Vesalius Research Center, VIB, Leuven, Belgium; Disease (LIND), KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Nervous System Diseases, ALS Paris ALS Center for Rare Diseases, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpêtrière, APHP, Paris, France
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Clinical Genetics Unit, Department of Woman and Child Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- ALS Clinical Research Center, Bio. Ne. C., University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMRS1127, Paris, France; AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires La Pitié Salpêtrière-Charles Foix, Centre de Référence des Démences Rares, Departement de Neurologie, Paris, France
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- Neurodegenerative Brain Diseases Group, Department of Molecular Genetics, VIB, Antwerp, Belgium; Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Insititute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Neurology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMRS1127, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- North-East London and Essex MND Care Centre - Neuroscience and Trauma Centre, Blizard, Institute of Cell and Molecular Medicine, Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, institut de recherche translationnelle en neurosciences (A-ICM), Paris, France; Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, réseau SLA IdF, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMRS1127, Paris, France
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Vesalius Research Center, VIB, Leuven, Belgium; Disease (LIND), KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Department of Nervous System Diseases, ALS Paris ALS Center for Rare Diseases, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpêtrière, APHP, Paris, France; Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMRS1127, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMRS1127, Paris, France; Neurogenetics team, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMRS1127, Paris, France
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Neurodegenerative Brain Diseases Group, Department of Molecular Genetics, VIB, Antwerp, Belgium; Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Insititute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK.
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Koutlidis R, Ayrignac X, Pradat PF, Le Forestier N, Léger JM, Salachas F, Maisonobe T, Fournier E, Viala K. Segmental somatosensory-evoked potentials as a diagnostic tool in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies, and other sensory neuropathies. Neurophysiol Clin 2014; 44:267-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2014.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2013] [Revised: 08/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/08/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Ahmeti KB, Ajroud-Driss S, Al-Chalabi A, Andersen PM, Armstrong J, Birve A, Blauw HM, Brown RH, Bruijn L, Chen W, Chio A, Comeau MC, Cronin S, Diekstra FP, Soraya Gkazi A, Glass JD, Grab JD, Groen EJ, Haines JL, Hardiman O, Heller S, Huang J, Hung WY, Jaworski JM, Jones A, Khan H, Landers JE, Langefeld CD, Leigh PN, Marion MC, McLaughlin RL, Meininger V, Melki J, Miller JW, Mora G, Pericak-Vance MA, Rampersaud E, Robberecht W, Russell LP, Salachas F, Saris CG, Shatunov A, Shaw CE, Siddique N, Siddique T, Smith BN, Sufit R, Topp S, Traynor BJ, Vance C, van Damme P, van den Berg LH, van Es MA, van Vught PW, Veldink JH, Yang Y, Zheng JG. Age of onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is modulated by a locus on 1p34.1. Neurobiol Aging 2013; 34:357.e7-19. [PMID: 22959728 PMCID: PMC3839234 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2012] [Revised: 07/26/2012] [Accepted: 07/29/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the third most common adult-onset neurodegenerative disease. Individuals with ALS rapidly progress to paralysis and die from respiratory failure within 3 to 5 years after symptom onset. Epidemiological factors explain only a modest amount of the risk for ALS. However, there is growing evidence of a strong genetic component to both familial and sporadic ALS risk. The International Consortium on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Genetics was established to bring together existing genome-wide association cohorts and identify sporadic ALS susceptibility and age at symptom onset loci. Here, we report the results of a meta-analysis of the International Consortium on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Genetics genome-wide association samples, consisting of 4243 ALS cases and 5112 controls from 13 European ancestry cohorts from across the United States and Europe. Eight genomic regions provided evidence of association with ALS, including 9p21.2 (rs3849942, odds ratio [OR] = 1.21; p = 4.41 × 10(-7)), 17p11.2 (rs7477, OR = 1.30; p = 2.89 × 10(-7)), and 19p13 (rs12608932, OR = 1.37, p = 1.29 × 10(-7)). Six genomic regions were associated with age at onset of ALS. The strongest evidence for an age of onset locus was observed at 1p34.1, with comparable evidence at rs3011225 (R(2)(partial) = 0.0061; p = 6.59 × 10(-8)) and rs803675 (R(2)(partial) = 0.0060; p = 6.96 × 10(-8)). These associations were consistent across all 13 cohorts. For rs3011225, individuals with at least 1 copy of the minor allele had an earlier average age of onset of over 2 years. Identifying the underlying pathways influencing susceptibility to and age at onset of ALS may provide insight into the pathogenic mechanisms and motivate new pharmacologic targets for this fatal neurodegenerative disease.
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Daoud H, Suhail H, Sabbagh M, Belzil V, Szuto A, Dionne-Laporte A, Khoris J, Camu W, Salachas F, Meininger V, Mathieu J, Strong M, Dion PA, Rouleau GA. C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions as the causative mutation for chromosome 9p21-linked amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 69:1159-63. [PMID: 22964911 DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2012.377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To further assess the presence of a large hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the first intron of the C9orf72 gene identified as the genetic cause of chromosome 9p21-linked amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (c9ALS/FTD) in 4 unrelated families with a conclusive linkage to c9ALS/FTD. DESIGN A repeat-primed polymerase chain reaction assay. SETTING Academic research. PARTICIPANTS Affected and unaffected individuals from 4 ALS/FTD families. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The amplified C9orf72 repeat expansion. RESULTS We show that the repeat is expanded in and segregated perfectly with the disease in these 4 pedigrees. CONCLUSION Our findings further confirm the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion as the causative mutation for c9ALS/FTD and strengthen the hypothesis that ALS and FTD belong to the same disease spectrum.
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- Hussein Daoud
- CHUM Research Center and Department of Medicine, Centre of Excellence in Neuroscience of Université de Montréal, Canada
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Le Ber I, Camuzat A, Guillot-Noel L, Guedj E, Hannequin D, Wargon I, Couratier P, Deramecourt V, Berger E, Viennet G, Pasquier F, Lacomblez Aurousseau L, Salachas F, Martinaud O, Golfier V, Puel M, Vercelletto M, Didic M, Sauvee M, Sellal F, Thomas-Anterion C, Campion D, Michel B, Dubois B, Camu W, Seilhean D, Meininger V, Habert MO, Duyckaerts C, Brice A. Frequency and Phenotypes Associated with C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion in French FTLD and FTLD-ALS Patients (S54.003). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.s54.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Corcia P, Valdmanis P, Millecamps S, Lionnet C, Blasco H, Mouzat K, Daoud H, Belzil V, Morales R, Pageot N, Danel-Brunaud V, Vandenberghe N, Pradat PF, Couratier P, Salachas F, Lumbroso S, Rouleau GA, Meininger V, Camu W. Phenotype and genotype analysis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with TARDBP gene mutations. Neurology 2012; 78:1519-26. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3182553c88] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Le Ber I, Camuzat A, Hannequin D, Lacomblez L, Couratier P, Guillot-Noel L, Habert M, Seilhean D, Golfier V, Puel M, Martinaud O, Deramecourt V, Vercelletto M, Sellal F, Pasquier F, Salachas F, Thomas-Anterion C, Didic M, Pariente J, Wargon I, Blanc F, Michel B, Berger E, Sauvee M, Mondon K, Fleury M, Meininger V, Duyckaerts C, Dubois B, Guedj E, Brice A. Fréquence et phénotypes associés aux mutations du gène c9orf72 dans une cohorte française de patients atteints de DLFT. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2012.01.510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Fraidakis MJ, Drunat S, Maisonobe T, Gerard B, Pradat PF, Meininger V, Salachas F. Genotype-phenotype relationship in 2 SMA III patients with novel mutations in the Tudor domain. Neurology 2012; 78:551-6. [PMID: 22323744 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e318247ca69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE We report the cases of 2 patients with late-onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type III, who were hemizygous for SMN1 deletion and carriers of novel SMN1 intragenic missense mutations, and we investigate the genotype-phenotype relationship. METHODS Patients were tested for SMN1 deletions with standard methodology. Sequencing of all exons, exon-intron junctions, and flanking sequences of SMN1 by nested PCR was used to detect intragenic point mutations. SMN1 and SMN2 quantification was undertaken to investigate the genotype-phenotype relationship. RESULTS Two novel point mutations were identified in exon 3 of SMN1 (p.Tyr130Cys and p.Tyr130His) in the highly conserved Tudor domain of the Smn protein. CONCLUSIONS The genetic basis of SMA in the rare cases of compound heterozygous carriers of SMN1 deletions is complex. Small intragenic SMN1 mutations often lead to severe SMA phenotypes, especially if the point mutations lie in exon 3 that codes for the highly conserved Tudor domain of the Smn protein. Although both our patients were carriers of intragenic SMN1 mutations in the coding region of the Tudor domain, they presented with a mild SMA phenotype despite a low SMN2 copy number. We discuss the possible determinant role of these novel missense mutations in the phenotypic outcome and compensatory mechanisms that may account for the genotype-phenotype discrepancy.
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- M J Fraidakis
- Department of Neurology, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Groupement Hospitalier Universitaire Est Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Sanjak M, Salachas F, Frija-Orvoen E, Theys P, Hutchinson D, Verheijde J, Pianta T, Stewart H, Brooks BR, Meininger V, Douillet P. Quality control of vital capacity as a primary outcome measure during phase III therapeutic clinical trial in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 11:383-8. [PMID: 20192884 DOI: 10.3109/17482960903486083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Currently, ALS clinical trials require large sample size and the participation of many clinical evaluators to perform the outcome measure. High variability due to testers, instruments, or patients performance errors may result in systematic bias or random error leading to erroneous or uninterpretable results. Consequently, a quality control system that aims to produce high quality data in terms of reproducibility and accuracy to ensure reliability of the primary outcome measure is essential. In this paper we report our experience in preparing and executing a prospective quality control system that was implemented in conjunction with a large multicenter, multinational randomized placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial in ALS. We have shown that a prospective quality control system is highly effective to ensure inter- and intra-rater reliability of vital capacity as a primary outcome measure during the entire trial.
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- Mohammed Sanjak
- Carolinas Neuromuscular/ALS-MDA Center, Neuroscience and Spine Institute, Carolinas Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Charlotte, North Carolina 28207-1885, USA.
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Millecamps S, Salachas F, Cazeneuve C, Gordon P, Bricka B, Camuzat A, Guillot-Noel L, Russaouen O, Bruneteau G, Pradat PF, Le Forestier N, Vandenberghe N, Danel-Brunaud V, Guy N, Thauvin-Robinet C, Lacomblez L, Couratier P, Hannequin D, Seilhean D, Le Ber I, Corcia P, Camu W, Brice A, Rouleau G, LeGuern E, Meininger V. SOD1, ANG, VAPB, TARDBP, and FUS mutations in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: genotype-phenotype correlations. J Med Genet 2010; 47:554-60. [DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2010.077180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Gordon PH, Cheng B, Salachas F, Pradat PF, Bruneteau G, Corcia P, Lacomblez L, Meininger V. Progression in ALS is not linear but is curvilinear. J Neurol 2010; 257:1713-7. [PMID: 20532545 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-010-5609-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2010] [Accepted: 05/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The aim of the study is to determine the shape of the progression curve in ALS, assess the impact of clinical variables on the rate of progression, and evaluate the association between functional decline and survival. Data were prospectively collected and entered into a clinical database from all patients seen in 2002-2008 at the Centre SLA, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris. Variables analyzed were demographic and baseline information, the ALS functional rating scale (ALSFRS-R), strength testing (MMT), and survival. Generalized additive mixed models characterized changes in ALSFRS-R and MMT scores over time. Linear mixed effects assessed the impact of demographic and clinical measures on rate of progression and Cox models examined their effect on survival. Of 2,452 patients with ALS identified, 1,884 had adequate data for analysis. The ALSFRS-R and MMT declined in a curvilinear way; a quadratic fit described the trends but a linear fit did not. The total ALSFRS-R score was negatively associated with age-of-onset (p < 0.001), and positively associated with baseline ALSFRS-R (p < 0.001) as well as more severe bulbar features (p < 0.001). Higher rate of decline in ALSFRS-R and MMT, older age-at-onset and bulbar-onset predicted shorter survival. Deterioration in ALS is non-linear. The early and late phases of the illness show the most rapid rates of decline. Older age and bulbar signs are associated with a steeper decline, and along with more rapid initial rate of decline, but not current functional status, also predict survival.
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- Paul H Gordon
- Fédération des Maladies du Système Nerveux, AP-HP, Centre Référent Maladie Rare SLA, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris, France.
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Riluzole, after two significant trials, was introduced as the first standard treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the early 95'. After 5 years what has changed in the field of ALS? In the field of basic science, riluzole as an active drug has largely contributed to stimulate the research of the possible role of glutamate in the genesis of ALS. However, the apparent simplicity of the relation between the drug and its mechanisms has to modulated in the light of the negativity of other trials (gabapentin) and the display of other mechanisms of the disease and of the compound. Possible relation with other putative mechanisms of ALS, as oxydative stress or growth factors, could be (and probably are) also involved. In the field of its activity, riluzole has an impact on the survival rate which has been largely debated. Comparison with historical databases are supporting the results of the two initial trials. Other information have been published supporting the probable activity of the drug on the muscle strength decline, a controversial matter. They strengthen the initial data and give additional reasons to use riluzole as a standard treatment of patients. In the field of the daily care, riluzole provided a real and unique hope for ALS sufferers. Even if its activity is not as complete as patients would have expected, it provides a hope for slowing down the rate of evolution and abolishes the myth of "no hope, no cure" which was the leitmotiv of patients care until recently. We have to better define the mode of administration with regard to the clinical status of the patients (respiratory disorders, fatigue, stiffness). In the field of care givers, riluzole was one major factor which provided the basis for national and international collaborations either for therapeutic trials or for standard of care. It made possible large collaborative programs in and among many countries. We do hope that this impulse will continue and be stimulated by additional results both in the field of basic science and clinical research.
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- V Meininger
- Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin, Division Mazarin, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Belzil VV, Valdmanis PN, Dion PA, Daoud H, Kabashi E, Noreau A, Gauthier J, Hince P, Desjarlais A, Bouchard JP, Lacomblez L, Salachas F, Pradat PF, Camu W, Meininger V, Dupré N, Rouleau GA. Mutations in FUS cause FALS and SALS in French and French Canadian populations. Neurology 2009; 73:1176-9. [PMID: 19741216 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3181bbfeef] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The identification of mutations in the TARDBP and more recently the identification of mutations in the FUS gene as the cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is providing the field with new insight about the mechanisms involved in this severe neurodegenerative disease. METHODS To extend these recent genetic reports, we screened the entire gene in a cohort of 200 patients with ALS. An additional 285 patients with sporadic ALS were screened for variants in exon 15 for which mutations were previously reported. RESULTS In total, 3 different mutations were identified in 4 different patients, including 1 3-bp deletion in exon 3 of a patient with sporadic ALS and 2 missense mutations in exon 15 of 1 patient with familial ALS and 2 patients with sporadic ALS. CONCLUSIONS Our study identified sporadic patients with mutations in the FUS gene. The accumulation and description of different genes and mutations helps to develop a more comprehensive picture of the genetic events underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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- V V Belzil
- CHUM Research Centre, Notre-Dame Hospital, Y-3633 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Le Ber I, Camuzat A, Berger E, Hannequin D, Laquerrière A, Golfier V, Seilhean D, Viennet G, Couratier P, Verpillat P, Heath S, Camu W, Martinaud O, Lacomblez L, Vercelletto M, Salachas F, Sellal F, Didic M, Thomas-Anterion C, Puel M, Michel BF, Besse C, Duyckaerts C, Meininger V, Campion D, Dubois B, Brice A. Chromosome 9p-linked families with frontotemporal dementia associated with motor neuron disease. Neurology 2009; 72:1669-76. [PMID: 19433740 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3181a55f1c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- I Le Ber
- CRicm-UMRS975 (formerly INSERM, UMR_S679), France
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Meininger V, Antoine JC, Arne-Bes M, Broussolle E, Bruneteau G, Camdessanche J, Camu W, Carluer L, Cintas P, Clavelou P, Corcia P, Couratier P, Danel-Brunaud V, Desnuelle C, Destée A, Dib M, Fleury MC, Furby A, Giroud M, Gonzales J, Guy N, Kolev I, Lacomblez L, Lardillier-Noel D, Le Forestier N, Maugin D, Nicolas G, Pittion S, Pouget J, Pradat P, Rousso E, Salachas F, Soriani M, Tranchant C, Vandenberghe N, Verschueren A, Viader F, Vial C. Les méfaits d’Internet dans les traitements de la sclérose latérale amyotrophique. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2009; 165:207-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2009.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Pradat PF, Bruneteau G, Gordon P, Dupuis L, Bonnefont-Rousselot D, Simon D, Salachas F, Corcia P, Frochot V, Lacorte JM, Jardel C, Coussieu C, Forestier NL, Lacomblez L, Loeffler JP, Meininger V. Impaired glucose tolerance in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/17482960902822960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Valdmanis PN, Kabashi E, Dyck A, Hince P, Lee J, Dion P, D'Amour M, Souchon F, Bouchard JP, Salachas F, Meininger V, Andersen PM, Camu W, Dupre N, Rouleau GA. Association of paraoxonase gene cluster polymorphisms with ALS in France, Quebec, and Sweden. Neurology 2008; 71:514-20. [DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000324997.21272.0c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Pradat P, Bruneteau G, Gonzalez De Aguilar J, Dupuis L, Salachas F, Le Forestier N, Lacomblez L, Echaniz-Laguna A, Dubourg O, Hauw J, Tranchant C, Loeffler J, Meininger V. L’expression musculaire ectopique de Nogo-A est un marqueur de SLA dans les atteintes isolées du motoneurone périphérique. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s0035-3787(08)70031-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Guedj E, Le Ber I, Lacomblez L, Dubois B, Verpillat P, Didic M, Salachas F, Vera P, Hannequin D, Lotterie JA, Puel M, Decousus M, Thomas-Antérion C, Magne C, Vercelletto M, Bernard AM, Golfier V, Pasquier J, Michel BF, Namer I, Sellal F, Bochet J, Volteau M, Brice A, Meininger V, Habert MO. Brain spect perfusion of frontotemporal dementia associated with motor neuron disease. Neurology 2007; 69:488-90. [PMID: 17664410 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000266638.53185.e7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- E Guedj
- Service Central de Biophysique et Médecine Nucléaire, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de la Timone, Marseille Cedex 5, France.
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Le Ber I, Camuzat A, Hannequin D, Pasquier F, van der Zee J, Campion D, Puel M, Laquerrière A, Sellal F, Lacomblez L, Vercelletto M, Thomas-Antérion C, Michel BF, Golfier V, Didic M, Salachas F, Duyckaerts C, Cruts M, Verpillat P, Van Broeckhoven C, Dubois B, Brice A, Brice A. Mutations du gène de la progranuline dans les démences frontotemporales : fréquence, spectre mutationnel et phénotypes associés. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/s0035-3787(07)90896-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Salachas F. [Breaking bad news during the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: how and when]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2006; 162 Spec No 2:4S127-4S129. [PMID: 17128100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Operatory procedures can help to break bad news in ALS but the main goal of this unpleasant task stands in the quality of the relationship between the physician and his patient which must be preserved throughout the course of the disease. Plasticity is obviously the best way to characterize the appropriate kind of care in such a variable disease. The caregivers and the psychological factors must also be taken into account. As it is the case for therapeutic research, breaking bad news in ALS requieres a specific know-how which should be ideally performed by specialized teams within the framework of dedicated ALS centers.
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- F Salachas
- Centre SLA de Paris, Fédération des Maladies du Système Nerveux, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75793 Paris Cedex 13 Paris
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Perez T, Salachas F. [Early nasal ventilation in amyotrophic latéral sclerosis: impact on survival and quality of life (the VNP-SLA study)]. Rev Mal Respir 2003; 20:589-98. [PMID: 14528161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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- T Perez
- Clinique des Maladies Respiratoires, Hôpital Calmette, Lille, France.
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Dejager S, Bry-Gauillard H, Bruckert E, Eymard B, Salachas F, LeGuern E, Tardieu S, Chadarevian R, Giral P, Turpin G. A comprehensive endocrine description of Kennedy's disease revealing androgen insensitivity linked to CAG repeat length. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002; 87:3893-901. [PMID: 12161529 DOI: 10.1210/jcem.87.8.8780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Our study aims to provide a comprehensive view of the endocrine features in Kennedy's disease (KD). Twenty-two men with KD underwent detailed endocrine investigations. Clinical signs of partial androgen resistance were present in more than 80% of the patients, with gynecomastia being the most prominent. Gynecomastia was postpubertal but appeared before muscular weakness in most cases. Thirteen patients had alteration of testicular exocrine function. Hormonal profile of partial androgen resistance was present in 86% of the patients, with an elevated testosterone level in 68%. Androgen insensitivity seems to appear later in life in KD, similar to the development of neurological signs. Although we confirm the previously reported correlation between the CAG repeat length and the early onset of the neurological disease, we describe a significant correlation between repeat length and the age of onset of gynecomastia as well as biological indexes of androgen insensitivity. This is supported by numerous in vitro data correlating variations in the CAG tract with androgen receptor activity; the longer the CAG repeats, the weaker the receptor transactivation. Ours is the first study to show such a clear and prominent pattern of androgen insensitivity in KD. In clinical practice, KD patients are often misdiagnosed as having amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Careful examination of the endocrine component could avoid such a deleterious misdiagnosis.
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- S Dejager
- Department of Endocrinology, Hôpital de La Pitié-Salpétrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
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Velasco R, Salachas F, Munerati E, Le Forestier N, Pradat PF, Lacomblez L, Orvoen Frija E, Meininger V. [Nocturnal oxymetry in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: role in predicting survival]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2002; 158:575-8. [PMID: 12072825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Death is the most important end point along the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). It is commonly attributed to a respiratory failure in relation with a restrictive respiratory disorder. However, in clinical practice, it is frequent to observe that death has not direct relation with the values of the respiratory function, at least measured with vital capacity. It is also frequent that relatives report sudden death during nocturnal sleep. All these features raised the question of the possible relation between death and nocturnal oxymetry in ALS patients. In a prospective study, we studied 69 ALS patients. We recorded demographic data, clinical parameters as manual muscle testing and functional scales, various parameters of oxymetry measured by pulse oxymetry recorded during night, slow vital capacity and survival time. There is a strong correlation between survival time measured by Kaplan Meier curves and log rank and the mean nocturnal saturation. We determined 93 mmHg as a threshold value. Below this threshold, mean survival time was 7.5+/-1.6 months and above it was equal to 18.5+/-1.5; relative risk was 3.31. These data confirm the importance of nocturnal oxymetry on survival in ALS patients both in clinical practice and in view of therapeutic trials.
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- R Velasco
- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris: Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Lacomblez L, Doppler V, Beucler I, Costes G, Salachas F, Raisonnier A, Le Forestier N, Pradat PF, Bruckert E, Meininger V. APOE: a potential marker of disease progression in ALS. Neurology 2002; 58:1112-4. [PMID: 11940705 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.58.7.1112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Although documented in AD, the role of APOE remains unclear in ALS. APOE phenotype and plasma levels were measured in 403 patients with ALS and were correlated with clinical parameters and survival time. No correlations were observed between the APOE phenotype and these variables. In contrast, APOE plasma levels were correlated with both rate of deterioration and survival time and appeared to be an important risk factor for decreased survival time with a relative risk of 0.647 (95% CI: 0.465 to 0.901; p = 0.01).
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- L Lacomblez
- Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin, Service de Pharmacologie, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Lacomblez L, Dib M, Doppler V, Faudet A, Robin V, Salachas F, Bensimon G, Meininger V. [Tolerance of riluzole in a phase IIIb clinical trial]. Therapie 2002; 57:65-71. [PMID: 12090150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Within the framework of an early drug access programme launched in 1995, a multicentre open study was initiated in France in order to assess, inter alia, the safety of riluzole (50 mg twice a day) in a total of 2069 patients from 28 centres. This programme, a phase IIIb study with direct individual benefit, had two main objectives: to enable patients to receive riluzole therapy pending regulatory approval and commercial availability and to provide further data on the safety of riluzole in a broader ALS population. The most frequent adverse events related to riluzole treatment were: asthenia, nausea and elevation of serum transaminase levels. These observations, similar to data derived from previous pivotal clinical trials, confirm that riluzole has a satisfactory tolerability profile.
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- L Lacomblez
- AP-HP, Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris
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Le Forestier N, Maisonobe T, Piquard A, Rivaud S, Crevier-Buchman L, Salachas F, Pradat PF, Lacomblez L, Meininger V. Does primary lateral sclerosis exist? A study of 20 patients and a review of the literature. Brain 2001; 124:1989-99. [PMID: 11571217 DOI: 10.1093/brain/124.10.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The question of whether primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) is a nosological entity distinct from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been the subject of controversy since it was first described in the nineteenth century. PLS has been defined as a rare, non-hereditary disease characterized by progressive spinobulbar spasticity, related to the selective loss of precentral pyramidal neurones, with secondary pyramidal tract degeneration and preservation of anterior horn motor neurones. In the recent clinical literature, the frontier between ALS and neurodegenerative disease remains poorly defined. We studied 20 patients with a diagnosis of PLS. We carried out a variety of tests in order to determine the presence of a more diffuse neurodegenerative process. We also performed a longitudinal electrophysiological evaluation. Our clinical, electrophysiological and pathological investigations provide evidence that the disease has a heterogeneous clinical presentation and that degeneration is not restricted to the central motor system.
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- N Le Forestier
- Fédération Mazarin de Neurologie Professeurs Delattre et Meininger, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Lafitte C, Amoura Z, Cacoub P, Pradat-Diehl P, Picq C, Salachas F, Léger JM, Piette JC, Delattre JY. Neurological complications of primary Sjögren's syndrome. J Neurol 2001; 248:577-84. [PMID: 11517999 DOI: 10.1007/s004150170135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To better delineate the spectrum of neurological complications of primary Sjögren's syndrome (PSS). METHODS A detailed neurological investigation was prospectively performed in a group of 25 consecutive patients with PSS followed in an internal medicine department between June 1996 and December 1997 (Internal Medicine group). In addition, eleven patients with neurological complications of PSS were identified in the Neurological Department of the same institution during the same period (Neurological group). RESULTS In the Internal Medicine group, neurological complications were discovered in 10/25 (40%) patients. Peripheral nervous system involvement was present in 4/25 patients from the Internal Medicine group and in 10/11 patients from the Neurological group and consisted mainly of axonal sensorimotor/sensory polyneuropathy. A motor neuron syndrome was identified in two patients. CNS involvement occurred in 7/25 patients from the Internal Medicine group and in 4/11 patients from the Neurological group. Three patients had spinal cord involvement. Cognitive dysfunction was the most frequent finding (5/25 in the Internal Medicine group, 3/11 in the Neurological group) characterized either by subcortical or corticosubcortical dysfunction. Cognitive impairment was not attributed to mood disturbance and was not associated with specific laboratory or radiological abnormalities. CONCLUSION Neurological complications of PSS are frequent since they were present in 40% (10/25) of patients in a consecutive series of patients from a department of Internal Medicine. Although PNS involvement predominates, complications of PSS affecting the brain or spinal cord are not rare, with subcortical dysfunction as the main finding.
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- C Lafitte
- Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin, Hĵpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Pradat PF, Dupel-Pottier C, Lacomblez L, Salachas F, Meininger V, Lacomblez L, Spelle L, Bonnaud I, Ribeiro MJ, Remy P, Samson Y. Case report of pallido-pyramidal disease with supplementary motor area involvement. Mov Disord 2001; 16:762-4. [PMID: 11481707 DOI: 10.1002/mds.1126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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An C-flumazenil positron emission tomography (PET) study in a patient with pallido-pyramidal disease revealed a marked decrease in benzodiazepine-receptor density in the precentral gyrus cortex and the mesial frontal cortex. We suggest that, in addition to dysfunction of basal ganglia-dependent systems, degeneration of the supplementary motor area could also be involved in the patient's bradykinesia.
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- P F Pradat
- Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France
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Salachas F, Meininger V. [Neurodegenerative diseases of the spinal cord]. Rev Prat 2001; 51:1197-201. [PMID: 11503489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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Numerous classifications have been applied to describe degenerative diseases of the spinal cord before the era of molecular analysis. The present challenge is to match in an appropriate manner old and new clinical classifications with the results of genetic analysis. This work is now well advanced for spinocerebellar degeneration but needs to be developed for hereditary spastic paraplegia, spinal muscular atrophies and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The widening of clinical spectrum observed in hereditary neurodegenerative diseases of the spinal cord raises the question of modulating factors (environmental or genetic). Clinicians in charge of patients with progressive spinal cord signs should bear in mind that the field of degenerative diseases is a moving one and that a degenerative aetiology has to be suspected more widely than in the past.
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- F Salachas
- Fédération de neurologie Mazarin Groupe hospitalier La Pitié-La Salpêtrière 75651 Paris.
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Motor neuropathy is a clinical entity which leads to consideration of a wide spectrum of peripheral nerve disorders. Firstly, it may be distinguished from other causes of peripheral motor involvement such as muscle diseases and disorders of the neuromuscular junction. Secondly, it may be discussed in two different forms: acute and chronic. Acute chronic neuropathies are mainly observed in Guillain-Barré syndrome, in which electrophysiological studies allow us to recognize the classical demyelinating form and the axonal form. The other causes of acute motor neuropathy are mainly poliomyelitis and porphyrias. Chronic motor neuropathies are mainly observed in motor neuron diseases, mainly amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but also Kennedy's disease and other lower motor neuron diseases which may be inherited or acquired. The other causes are multifocal motor neuropathy and the predominantly motor forms of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. The characterization of these different types of chronic neuropathy is of major importance because of the therapeutic consequences which may lead to the proposal of specific treatments.
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- J M Léger
- Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, France.
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Le Forestier N, Maisonobe T, Spelle L, Lesort A, Salachas F, Lacomblez L, Samson Y, Bouche P, Meininger V. Primary lateral sclerosis: further clarification. J Neurol Sci 2001; 185:95-100. [PMID: 11311289 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(01)00469-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) has been defined as a rare. Non-hereditary disease characterized by progressive spinobulbar spasticity, related to the exclusive involvement of precentral pyramidal neurons, with secondary pyramidal tract degeneration and a preservation of anterior horn motor neurons, the latter allowing PLS to be distinguish from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, a clear distinction between the two diseases remains a subject of debate. With this in mind, we assessed patients with meeting the previously published criteria for PLS in a prospective, longitudinal study. At regular intervals, we analyzed various clinical and electrophysiological parameters in nine patients with a diagnosis of PLS. We made a deltoid muscle biopsy and PET study.Our results provide evidence that degeneration in PLS is not restricted to the upper motor neurons but also affects the lower motor neurons. The distinction between ALS and PLS is related to the degree and stability of lower motor neuron involvement. In view of the similarities with ALS, we consider that PLS may represent a slowly progressive syndrome closely related to this disease.
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- N Le Forestier
- Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin Professeurs Delattre et Meininger, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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Meininger V, Lacomblez L, Salachas F. What has changed with riluzole? J Neurol 2000; 247:19-22. [PMID: 11200701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Riluzole, after two significant trials, was introduced as the first standard treatment of amyotrophic lateral clerosis (ALS) in the early 95'. After 5 years what has changed in the field of ALS? In the field of basic science, riluzole as an active drug has largely contributed to stimulate the research of the possible role of glutamate in the genesis of ALS. However, the apparent simplicity of the relation between the drug and its mechanisms has to modulated in the light of the negativity of other trials (gabapentin) and the display of other mechanisms of the disease and of the compound. Possible relation with other putative mechanisms of ALS, as oxydative stress or growth factors, could be (and probably are) also involved. In the field of its activity, riluzole has an impact on the survival rate which has been largely debated. Comparison with historical databases are supporting the results of the two initial trials. Other information have been published supporting the probable activity of the drug on the muscle strength decline, a controversial matter. They strengthen the initial data and give additional reasons to use riluzole as a standard treatment of patients. In the field of the daily care, riluzole provided a real and unique hope for ALS sufferers. Even if its activity is not as complete as patients would have expected, it provides a hope for slowing down the rate of evolution and abolishes the myth of "no hope, no cure" which was the leitmotiv of patients care until recently. We have to better define the mode of administration with regard to the clinical status of the patients (respiratory disorders, fatigue, stiffness). In the field of care givers, riluzole was one major factor which provided the basis for national and international collaborations either for therapeutic trials or for standard of care. It made possible large collaborative programs in and among many countries. We do hope that this impulse will continue and be stimulated by additional results both in the field of basic science and clinical research.
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- V Meininger
- Fédération de Neurologie Mazarin, Division Mazarin, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris, France.
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Bonnefont-Rousselot D, Lacomblez L, Jaudon M, Lepage S, Salachas F, Bensimon G, Bizard C, Doppler V, Delattre J, Meininger V. Blood oxidative stress in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurol Sci 2000; 178:57-62. [PMID: 11018250 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(00)00365-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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It has been suggested that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disorder resulting in motor neuron death, is associated with oxidative damage induced by free radicals. Our study aimed to get an assessment of the blood oxidative stress status in a population of 167 ALS patients (aged 59+/-13 years), treated or not with riluzole, compared with 62 age-matched healthy control subjects (aged 60+/-11 years) simultaneously included in the study. We determined the level of plasma lipid peroxidation (thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances, TBARS); the status of the major lipophilic plasma antioxidant defenses (vitamin E, vitamin A and beta-carotene); the activities of erythrocyte Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (Cu,Zn-SOD) and of plasma and erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px). Plasma selenium was also determined as a trace element essential to the activity of the GSH-Px. In comparison with controls, we observed in ALS patients (mean+/-S.D.) significantly higher TBARS values (ALS=1.34+/-0.28 micromol/l; controls=1.11+/-0. 20 micromol/l) and a significant enhancement of the erythrocyte SOD activity (ALS=710+/-114 U/g Hb; controls=667+/-93 U/g Hb). No differences were observed for selenium level, GSH-Px activity, plasma vitamin E, beta-carotene and vitamin A concentrations. These data confirm the presence of an oxidative stress in blood of ALS patients. The elevated plasma TBARS, without any deficiency in plasma lipophilic antioxidants such as vitamin E, vitamin A and beta-carotene, suggest an enhancement in the production of free radicals. No correlation was found in our study between the level of any of the blood oxidative stress markers and the disease duration. Comparison between patients treated or not with riluzole did not display any modification of the plasma TBARS concentration, but we observed a slight decrease of erythrocyte SOD activity in treated patients (treated=705+/-113 U/g Hb; not treated=725+/-118 U/g Hb), suggesting a possible activity of riluzole on the oxygenated free radical production.
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- D Bonnefont-Rousselot
- Biochemistry Laboratory, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Cedex 13, Paris, France.
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Le Forestier N, Maisonobe T, Spelle L, Lesort A, Salachas F, Chassande B, Bouche P, Samson Y, Meininger V. [What's new in primary lateral sclerosis?]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2000; 156:364-71. [PMID: 10795013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Primary lateral sclerosis as a nosological entity distinct from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has been the subject of controversy since it was first described in the nineteenth century. Primary lateral sclerosis has been defined as a rare, non-hereditary disease characterized by highly progressive spinobulbar spasticity, related to the exclusive loss of precentral pyramidal neurons, with secondary pyramidal tract degeneration and preservation of anterior horn motor neurons. We carried out a study in nine patients with a diagnosis of primary lateral sclerosis. Our clinical, electrophysiological and pathological investigations provide evidence that the disease has a heterogeneous clinical presentation and that degeneration is not restricted to the central motor system but also affects the lower motor neuron. In view of this similarity with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, primary lateral sclerosis may represent a slowly progressive syndrome closely related to motor neuron disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Chosidow O, Doppler V, Bensimon G, Joly P, Salachas F, Lacomblez L, Prost C, Camu W, Francès C, Herson S, Meininger V. Bullous pemphigoid and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a new clue for understanding the bullous disease? Arch Dermatol 2000; 136:521-4. [PMID: 10768651 DOI: 10.1001/archderm.136.4.521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Bullous pemphigoid (BP) occurs in many patients with multiple sclerosis. Isolated cases of BP in patients with other neurological disorders further support a pathogenic association between cutaneous and neurological diseases. Any description of BP in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is lacking. OBSERVATIONS We studied a French population of 168 patients with typical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Among these, 3 had clinical and histological features of BP. The mean age of the patients was 54 years. None was known to have autoimmune disorders. Results of immunoblot analysis disclosed both anti-BP antigen 1 and anti-BP antigen 2 antibodies. CONCLUSIONS Bullous pemphigoid seems to be unexpectedly associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. On the basis of the cases presented herein, we discuss the epidemiological significance of the association and the possible interrelation between BP antigen 1 and neurofilaments in the pathogenesis of both disorders.
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- O Chosidow
- Department of Internal Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Université Paris VI, France.
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