[HTML][HTML] Lysosomal acidification dysfunction in microglia: an emerging pathogenic mechanism of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

JD Quick, C Silva, JH Wong, KL Lim… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Microglia are the resident innate immune cells in the brain with a major role in orchestrating
immune responses. They also provide a frontline of host defense in the central nervous …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative multi-omics and systems bioinformatics in translational neuroscience: A data mining perspective

LM O'Connor, BA O'Connor, SB Lim, J Zeng… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bioinformatic analysis of large and complex omics datasets has become increasingly useful
in modern day biology by providing a great depth of information, with its application to …

[HTML][HTML] A monocarboxylate transporter rescues frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease models

D Xu, A Vincent, A González-Gutiérrez… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Brains are highly metabolically active organs, consuming 20% of a person's energy at
resting state. A decline in glucose metabolism is a common feature across a number of …

Acidic Nanoparticles Restore Lysosomal Acidification and Rescue Metabolic Dysfunction in Pancreatic β-Cells under Lipotoxic Conditions

CH Lo, LM O'Connor, GWZ Loi, EN Saipuljumri… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Type 2 diabetes (T2D), a prevalent metabolic disorder lacking effective treatments, is
associated with lysosomal acidification dysfunction, as well as autophagic and mitochondrial …

[HTML][HTML] Autolysosomal acidification impairment as a mediator for TNFR1 induced neuronal necroptosis in Alzheimer's disease

E Asimakidou, R Reynolds, AM Barron… - Neural regeneration …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Neuronal necroptosis–an emerging form of regulated cell death associated with
neuroinflammatory signaling: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence of …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical biomarkers for Lewy body diseases

MM Abdelmoaty, E Lu, R Kadry, EG Foster, S Bhattarai… - Cell & Bioscience, 2023 - Springer
Synucleinopathies are a group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by pathologic
aggregates of neural and glial α-synuclein (α-syn) in the form of Lewy bodies (LBs), Lewy …

The ion channels of endomembranes

M Hu, X Feng, Q Liu, S Liu, F Huang… - Physiological …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The endomembrane system consists of organellar membranes in the biosynthetic pathway
[endoplasmic reticulum (ER), Golgi apparatus, and secretory vesicles] as well as those in the …

Leucine‐rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) inhibition upregulates microtubule‐associated protein 1B to ameliorate lysosomal dysfunction and parkinsonism

K Chen, F Tang, B Du, ZZ Yue, LL Jiao, XL Ding… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations in LRRK2 (encoding leucine‐rich repeat kinase 2 protein, LRRK2) are the most
common genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease (PD), and increased LRRK2 kinase …

[HTML][HTML] Data mining of microarray datasets in translational neuroscience

LM O'Connor, BA O'Connor, J Zeng, CH Lo - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Data mining involves the computational analysis of a plethora of publicly available datasets
to generate new hypotheses that can be further validated by experiments for the improved …

[HTML][HTML] Disrupted hypothalamic transcriptomics and proteomics in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes exposed to recurrent hypoglycaemia

J Castillo-Armengol, F Marzetta… - Diabetologia, 2024 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Repeated exposures to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia in people with
diabetes progressively impairs the counterregulatory response (CRR) that restores …