Increased lysosomal biogenesis in activated microglia and exacerbated neuronal damage after traumatic brain injury in progranulin-deficient mice

Y Tanaka, T Matsuwaki, K Yamanouchi, M Nishihara - Neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
Progranulin (PGRN) is known to play a role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative
diseases. Recently, it has been demonstrated that patients with the homozygous mutation in …

Progranulin: normal function and role in neurodegeneration

JL Eriksen, IRA Mackenzie - Journal of neurochemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Progranulin (PGRN) is a multifunctional protein that has attracted significant attention in the
neuroscience community following the recent discovery of PGRN mutations in some cases …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating progranulin as a biomarker for neurodegenerative diseases

R Ghidoni, A Paterlini, L Benussi - American journal of …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Progranulin is a growth factor involved in the regulation of multiple processes including
tumorigenesis, wound repair, development, and inflammation. The recent discovery that …

A multifaceted role of progranulin in regulating amyloid-beta dynamics and responses

H Du, MY Wong, T Zhang, MN Santos… - Life Science …, 2021 - life-science-alliance.org
Haploinsufficiency of progranulin (PGRN) is a leading cause of frontotemporal lobar
degeneration (FTLD). PGRN polymorphisms are associated with Alzheimer's disease …

Plasma progranulin levels predict progranulin mutation status in frontotemporal dementia patients and asymptomatic family members

NC Finch, M Baker, R Crook, K Swanson, K Kuntz… - Brain, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Mutations in the progranulin gene (GRN) are an important cause of frontotemporal lobar
degeneration (FTLD) with ubiquitin and TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP43)-positive …

Microglial NFκB-TNFα hyperactivation induces obsessive–compulsive behavior in mouse models of progranulin-deficient frontotemporal dementia

G Krabbe, SS Minami, JI Etchegaray… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common dementia before 65 years of
age. Haploinsufficiency in the progranulin (GRN) gene accounts for 10% of all cases of …

[HTML][HTML] Progranulin in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and neuroinflammation

Z Ahmed, IRA Mackenzie, ML Hutton… - Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
Progranulin (PGRN) is a pleiotropic protein that has gained the attention of the neuroscience
community with recent discoveries of mutations in the gene for PGRN that cause …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced Tau protein expression is associated with frontotemporal degeneration with progranulin mutation

A Papegaey, S Eddarkaoui, V Deramecourt… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2016 - Springer
Reduction of Tau protein expression was described in 2003 by Zhukareva et al. in a variant
of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) referred to as diagnosis of dementia lacking …

Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid increases progranulin production in iPSC-derived cortical neurons of frontotemporal dementia patients

S Almeida, F Gao, G Coppola, FB Gao - Neurobiology of aging, 2016 - Elsevier
Mutations in the granulin (GRN) gene cause frontotemporal dementia (FTD) due to
progranulin haploinsufficiency. Compounds that can increase progranulin production and …

Sensitivity to neurotoxic stress is not increased in progranulin-deficient mice

TL Petkau, S Zhu, G Lu, S Fernando, M Cynader… - Neurobiology of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Loss-of-function mutations in the progranulin (GRN) gene are a common cause of
autosomal dominant frontotemporal lobar degeneration, a fatal and progressive …