Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is an adult-onset, rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the aggregation of α-synuclein in oligodendroglial cytoplasmatic inclusions.1 ...
An experimental drug that Theravance Biopharma touted as a potential first-in-class medicine for multiple system atrophy has failed a Phase 3 study, triggering a corporate shakeup that ends this ...
In 2020, Ashley Harms, Ph.D., and University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues published an Acta Neuropathologica study that used a mouse model to show that the alpha-synuclein pathology from ...
Currently no disease-modifying or neuroprotective treatments exist for MSA, nor are there effective medications to treat the cerebellar ataxia in MSA-C or the parkinsonian features in MSA-P. Physical ...
Compared with placebo, ATH434 demonstrated a statistically significant 48% slowing of clinical progression (based on UMSARS score) at the 50mg dose at week 52. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...