Interestingly, together with miR-155 upregulation, also TSPO and CD68 transcripts have been found upregulated in post-mortem spinal cord samples from ALS patients (see supplementary info in ref. [102]), highlighting a potential correlation between the neuroinflammation highlighted by TSPO upregulation and aberrant microglia activation (linked to miR-155 deregulation). Here, TSPO is linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.