SOD1 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: To date, various studies have assessed neurogenic function in ALS animal models (Table 1), namely in transgenic mice and rats expressing the mutation in the SOD1 gene (Warita et al., 2001; Chi et al., 2006, 2007; Liu and Martin, 2006; Murphy, 2009; Li et al., 2012; Khalil and Lievens, 2017).