Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: from genetic heterogeneity to phenotypic continuum

R Guerrini, V Conti, M Mantegazza… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a heterogeneous group of
disorders characterized by early-onset, often severe epileptic seizures and EEG …

Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease

CJ Griffey, A Yamamoto - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Macroautophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process that delivers diverse cellular
contents to lysosomes for degradation. As our understanding of this pathway grows, so does …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagosome-lysosome fusion

P Lőrincz, G Juhász - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Macroautophagy is a conserved catabolic process observed in all eukaryotic cells, during
which selected cellular components are transported to and broken down within lysosomes …

Congenital myopathies: disorders of excitation–contraction coupling and muscle contraction

H Jungbluth, S Treves, F Zorzato, A Sarkozy… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The congenital myopathies are a group of early-onset, non-dystrophic neuromuscular
conditions with characteristic muscle biopsy findings, variable severity and a stable or slowly …

Targeting PI3K-AKT/mTOR signaling in the prevention of autism

A Sharma, S Mehan - Neurochemistry international, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract PI3K-AKT/mTOR signaling pathway represents an essential signaling mechanism
for mammalian enzyme-related receptors in transducing signals or biological processes …

Congenital disorders of autophagy: an emerging novel class of inborn errors of neuro-metabolism

D Ebrahimi-Fakhari, A Saffari, L Wahlster, J Lu, S Byrne… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Single gene disorders of the autophagy pathway are an emerging, novel and diverse group
of multisystem diseases in children. Clinically, these disorders prominently affect the central …

Role of autophagy in muscle disease

A Franco-Romero, M Sandri - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Beside inherited muscle diseases many catabolic conditions such as insulin resistance,
malnutrition, cancer growth, aging, infections, chronic inflammatory status, inactivity, obesity …

Genetics and signaling mechanisms of orofacial clefts

K Reynolds, S Zhang, B Sun, MA Garland… - Birth defects …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Craniofacial development involves several complex tissue movements including several
fusion processes to form the frontonasal and maxillary structures, including the upper lip and …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic disorders of cellular trafficking

A García-Cazorla, A Oyarzábal, JM Saudubray… - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Cellular trafficking is essential to maintain critical biological functions. Mutations in 346
genes, most of them described in the last 5 years, are associated with disorders of cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Mouse models of inherited retinal degeneration with photoreceptor cell loss

GB Collin, N Gogna, B Chang, N Damkham, J Pinkney… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Inherited retinal degeneration (RD) leads to the impairment or loss of vision in millions of
individuals worldwide, most frequently due to the loss of photoreceptor (PR) cells. Animal …