[HTML][HTML] Inflammation and immune dysfunction in Parkinson disease

MG Tansey, RL Wallings, MC Houser… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects peripheral
organs as well as the central nervous system and involves a fundamental role of …

[HTML][HTML] TLR2 and TLR4 in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis: The environment takes a toll on the gut

AM Gorecki, CC Anyaegbu, RS Anderton - Translational …, 2021 - Springer
Parkinson's disease (PD) is an incurable, devastating disorder that is characterized by
pathological protein aggregation and neurodegeneration in the substantia nigra. In recent …

[PDF][PDF] Microglia jointly degrade fibrillar alpha-synuclein cargo by distribution through tunneling nanotubes

H Scheiblich, C Dansokho, D Mercan, SV Schmidt… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Microglia are the CNS resident immune cells that react to misfolded proteins through pattern
recognition receptor ligation and activation of inflammatory pathways. Here, we studied how …

[HTML][HTML] APOE4/4 is linked to damaging lipid droplets in Alzheimer's disease microglia

MS Haney, R Pálovics, CN Munson, C Long… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Several genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease implicate genes involved in lipid
metabolism and many of these lipid genes are highly expressed in glial cells. However, the …

Lactobacillus plantarum DP189 Reduces α-SYN Aggravation in MPTP-Induced Parkinson's Disease Mice via Regulating Oxidative Damage, Inflammation, and Gut …

L Wang, Z Zhao, L Zhao, Y Zhao, G Yang… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This study aimed to evaluate the attenuating effect of Lactobacillus plantarum DP189 on α-
synuclein (α-SYN) aggregates in the substantia nigra (SN) of Parkinson's disease (PD) mice …

Inflammasome assembly in neurodegenerative diseases

J Singh, ML Habean, N Panicker - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
Neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by the progressive dysfunction and death of
selectively vulnerable neuronal populations, often associated with the accumulation of …

NLRP3 inflammasome in neurodegenerative disease

FL Anderson, KE Biggs, BE Rankin, MC Havrda - Translational Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by a dysregulated neuro-glial
microenvironment, culminating in functional deficits resulting from neuronal cell death …

[HTML][HTML] Glucocerebrosidase-associated Parkinson disease: Pathogenic mechanisms and potential drug treatments

ME Gegg, E Menozzi, AHV Schapira - Neurobiology of Disease, 2022 - Elsevier
Dysfunction of the endolysosomal system is implicated in the pathogenesis of both sporadic
and familial Parkinson disease (PD). Variants in genes encoding lysosomal proteins have …

[HTML][HTML] Upregulation of α-synuclein following immune activation: Possible trigger of Parkinson's disease

A Kasen, C Houck, AR Burmeister, Q Sha… - Neurobiology of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Alpha-synuclein (α-syn) has been suggested to have many functions including,
vesicle transport in neurons, transcriptional regulator, modulator of immune cell maturation …

Regulation of α-synuclein homeostasis and inflammasome activation by microglial autophagy

I Choi, GR Heaton, YK Lee, Z Yue - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Autophagy clears protein aggregates, damaged cellular organelles, and pathogens through
the lysosome. Although autophagy is highly conserved across all cell types, its activity in …