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I was Challenged by the one and only @Carmen....I challenge Kenny Pollock, Matt Medla,Rhonda Morris, Steven Boylan, & Matt Barker. From the Caskey Street Team... Im calling out DJ SLYM, CAROLINE, Jamie Velardi, The Avengers & Lift off Managment.... You have 24 Hours... Have been called out to raise awareness.... Keep the Challenge going and Donate to a good cause. #IceBucketChallenege #StrikeOutALS Amyotrophic comes from the Greek language: A- means no, myo refers to muscle, and trophic means nourishment; amyotrophic therefore means no muscle nourishment, which describes the characteristic atrophy of the sufferers disused muscle tissue. Lateral identifies the areas in a persons spinal cord where portions of the nerve cells that are affected are located. As this area degenerates it leads to scarring or hardening (sclerosis) in the region. In ALS, the progressive weakness that develops is due to selective death of motor neurons, the nerve cells that carry messages telling the muscles to contract. Motor neurons are unique cells, the longest in the body. All neurons extend a connecting fiber, the axon, to the next neuron or end organ. Some motor neurons in the spinal cord must extend their axon up to a meter, to reach the toes, for example, yet the cell body maintaining this extraordinary fiber is only of ordinary size. Metabolic demands on the motor neurons must be correspondingly extraordinary. The Leader in Global ALS Research The ALS Association has committed $99 million to find effective treatments and a cure for Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Our global research effort has helped increase the number of scientists working on ALS, advanced new discoveries and treatments, and has shed light on the complex genetic and environmental factors involved in ALS. The ALS Association has funded significant research milestones in the fight against ALS, including: The groundbreaking discovery of a genetic abnormality that is, to date, the most common cause known of ALS and FTD. The recent exciting finding involved in familial ALS shows how two proteins work together to buttress the survival of motor neurons. Discovery of the ALS gene, SOD1, responsible for 20 percent of all inherited ALS cases. Discovery of ALS6 in 2009, a new gene responsible for about 5% of all inherited ALS cases. The first clinical trial of ISIS-SOD1, a new drug that specifically targets the SOD1 gene.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:01:46 +0000

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