[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of ferroptosis and their involvement in brain diseases

I Costa, DJ Barbosa, S Benfeito, V Silva… - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis is a type of regulated cell death characterized by intracellular accumulation of
iron and reactive oxygen species, inhibition of system Xc-, glutathione depletion …

Seed amplification assay for the detection of pathologic alpha-synuclein aggregates in cerebrospinal fluid

L Concha-Marambio, S Pritzkow, M Shahnawaz… - Nature protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Misfolded alpha-synuclein (αSyn) aggregates are a hallmark event in Parkinson's disease
(PD) and other synucleinopathies. Recently, αSyn seed amplification assays (αSyn-SAAs) …

α-Synuclein aggregation nucleates through liquid–liquid phase separation

S Ray, N Singh, R Kumar, K Patel, S Pandey, D Datta… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (α-Syn) aggregation and amyloid formation is directly linked with
Parkinson's disease pathogenesis. However, the early events involved in this process …

Modeling Parkinson's disease with the alpha-synuclein protein

M Gómez-Benito, N Granado, P García-Sanz… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) is a key protein involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology. PD
is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neuronal cells in the substantia nigra pars …

Growth hormone (s), testosterone, insulin-like growth factors, and cortisol: roles and integration for cellular development and growth with exercise

WJ Kraemer, NA Ratamess, WC Hymer… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hormones are largely responsible for the integrated communication of several physiological
systems responsible for modulating cellular growth and development. Although the specific …

Gut microbiota: a novel therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease

M Zhu, X Liu, Y Ye, X Yan, Y Cheng, L Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease
characterized by motor dysfunction. Growing evidence has demonstrated that gut dysbiosis …

Mitophagy in human diseases

L Doblado, C Lueck, C Rey, AK Samhan-Arias… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mitophagy is a selective autophagic process, essential for cellular homeostasis, that
eliminates dysfunctional mitochondria. Activated by inner membrane depolarization, it plays …

Amelioration of pathologic α-synuclein-induced Parkinson's disease by irisin

TI Kam, H Park, SC Chou… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Physical activity provides clinical benefit in Parkinson's disease (PD). Irisin is an exercise-
induced polypeptide secreted by skeletal muscle that crosses the blood–brain barrier and …

The gut microbiota–brain axis in neurological disorder

H Ullah, S Arbab, Y Tian, C Liu, Y Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The gut microbiota (GM) plays an important role in the physiology and pathology of the host.
Microbiota communicate with different organs of the organism by synthesizing hormones …

Liquid-liquid phase separation of α-synuclein: a new mechanistic insight for α-synuclein aggregation associated with Parkinson's disease pathogenesis

S Mukherjee, A Sakunthala, L Gadhe… - Journal of molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aberrant aggregation of the misfolded presynaptic protein, α-Synuclein (α-Syn) into Lewy
body (LB) and Lewy neuritis (LN) is a major pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease …