Approaches to develop therapeutics to treat frontotemporal dementia

LP Elia, T Reisine, A Alijagic, S Finkbeiner - Neuropharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
… This review focuses on mechanisms that regulate PGRN levels in different brain cells,
how PGRN regulates the clearance of disease-causing proteins from neurons to impact …

Tale of two diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

A Verma - Neurology India, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… Although MAPT- and PGRN-gene-associated FTD were reported on occasion to show
ALS features, the real breakthrough linking ALS and FTD disease mechanisms came with the …

Frontotemporal dementia: insights into the biological underpinnings of disease through gene co-expression network analysis

R Ferrari, P Forabosco, J Vandrovcova, JA Botía… - Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
… In frontotemporal dementia (FTD) there is a critical lack in the understanding of biological and
molecular mechanisms involved in disease … that multiple disease-mechanisms are likely to …

Etiology and pathophysiology of frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease: lessons from genetic studies

C Wider, ZK Wszolek - Neurodegenerative Diseases, 2008 - karger.com
… of Alzheimer disease (AD), much insight has been gained regarding the mechanisms leading
to … The study of these genes has dramatically altered our understanding of the mechanisms

Animal models of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

J Götz, LM Ittner - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2008 - nature.com
… have been linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Recent
… that may interfere with essential cellular mechanisms at an early disease stage. This review …

Role of genetics and epigenetics in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

C Fenoglio, E Scarpini, M Serpente… - … Alzheimer's Disease, 2018 - content.iospress.com
… We reviewed current knowledge on causative genes and altered mechanisms leading to the
two diseases, genetic risk factors and disease modifiers shown to influence the age at onset …

Retrieval mechanisms for autobiographical memories: insights from the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia

V Matuszewski, P Piolino, V de La Sayette, C Lalevée… - Neuropsychologia, 2006 - Elsevier
… of frontotemporal dementia (fv-FTD). The aim of this study was therefore to unravel the
mechanisms … in fv-FTD, and suggest that the mechanisms at the root of autobiographical memory …

Pathophysiological aspects of frontotemporal dementia—emphasis on cytoskeleton proteins and autoimmunity

M Sjögren, A Wallin - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2001 - Elsevier
… The aim of this study was to investigate two putative pathophysiological aspects of the
common neurodegenerative disorder frontotemporal dementia (FTD). To this end, cerebrospinal …

TDP-43 accumulation in inclusion body myopathy muscle suggests a common pathogenic mechanism with frontotemporal dementia

CC Weihl, P Temiz, SE Miller, G Watts… - Journal of Neurology …, 2008 - jnnp.bmj.com
… inclusions in the brains of patients with frontotemporal dementias (FTD-U) and amyotrophic
… IBM), Paget’s disease of the bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD) has ubiquitinated …

Mechanisms of disease in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: gain of function versus loss of function effects

G Halliday, EH Bigio, NJ Cairns, M Neumann… - Acta …, 2012 - Springer
… The prototypical clinical syndromes are behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD…
), a disorder of expressive language, and semantic dementia (SD), a disorder of conceptual …