[HTML][HTML] Using C. elegans to discover therapeutic compounds for ageing-associated neurodegenerative diseases

X Chen, JW Barclay, RD Burgoyne, A Morgan - Chemistry Central Journal, 2015 - Springer
Age-associated neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are a major
public health challenge, due to the demographic increase in the proportion of older …

Proteotoxicity and cardiac dysfunction

PM McLendon, J Robbins - Circulation research, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Baseline physiological function of the mammalian heart is under the constant threat of
environmental or intrinsic pathological insults. Cardiomyocyte proteins are thus subject to …

Complete suppression of Htt fibrilization and disaggregation of Htt fibrils by a trimeric chaperone complex

A Scior, A Buntru, K Arnsburg, A Ast, M Iburg… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded CAG
trinucleotide repeat in the huntingtin gene (HTT). Molecular chaperones have been …

Consensus paper: strengths and weaknesses of animal models of spinocerebellar ataxias and their clinical implications

J Cendelin, M Cvetanovic, M Gandelman, H Hirai… - The Cerebellum, 2022 - Springer
Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) represent a large group of hereditary degenerative diseases
of the nervous system, in particular the cerebellum, and other systems that manifest with a …

[HTML][HTML] Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system for studying aging-associated neurodegenerative diseases

KM Van Pelt, MC Truttmann - Translational medicine of aging, 2020 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are a heterogeneous group of aging-associated
disorders characterized by the disruption of cellular proteostasis machinery and the …

Proteins in aggregates functionally impact multiple neurodegenerative disease models by forming proteasome‐blocking complexes

S Ayyadevara, M Balasubramaniam, Y Gao, LR Yu… - Aging …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Age‐dependent neurodegenerative diseases progressively form aggregates containing
both shared components (eg, TDP‐43, phosphorylated tau) and proteins specific to each …

Hypoxia disrupts proteostasis in Caenorhabditis elegans

EM Fawcett, JM Hoyt, JK Johnson, DL Miller - Aging Cell, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen is fundamentally important for cell metabolism, and as a consequence, O2
deprivation (hypoxia) can impair many essential physiological processes. Here, we show …

[HTML][HTML] A new Caenorhabditis elegans model of human huntingtin 513 aggregation and toxicity in body wall muscles

AL Lee, HM Ung, LP Sands, EA Kikis - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Expanded polyglutamine repeats in different proteins are the known determinants of at least
nine progressive neurodegenerative disorders whose symptoms include cognitive and …

[HTML][HTML] Towards Understanding Neurodegenerative Diseases: Insights from Caenorhabditis elegans

Y Wu, Y Chen, X Yu, M Zhang, Z Li - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The elevated occurrence of debilitating neurodegenerative disorders, such as amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington's disease (HD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's …

Advances in cerebellar disorders: pre-clinical models, therapeutic targets, and challenges

M Manto, J Cendelin, M Strupp… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction Cerebellar ataxias (CAs) represent neurological disorders with
multiple etiologies and a high phenotypic variability. Despite progress in the understanding …