Huntingtin Aggregation Kinetics and Their Pathological Role in a Drosophila Huntington's Disease Model

KR Weiss, Y Kimura, WCM Lee, JT Littleton - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting from expansion of a
polyglutamine tract in the Huntingtin protein. Mutant Huntingtin forms intracellular …

A twofold increase in BRCA mutation related prostate cancer among Ashkenazi Israelis is not associated with distinctive histopathology

RM Giusti, JL Rutter, PH Duray, LS Freedman… - Journal of medical …, 2003 - jmg.bmj.com
The magnitude of the risk of prostate cancer among Ashkenazi Jewish carriers of the
common mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, the so-called Ashkenazi BRCA …

A futility study of minocycline in Huntington's disease

M Cudkowicz… - Movement …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This study assessed the futility of proceeding with a Phase 3 clinical trial of minocycline as a
disease‐modifying treatment for Huntington's disease (HD). One hundred fourteen research …

Inhibitory effect of minocycline on amyloid β fibril formation and human microglial activation

A Familian, RS Boshuizen, P Eikelenboom, R Veerhuis - Glia, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Minocycline, a derivative of the antibiotic tetracycline, displays neuroprotective properties in
various models of neurodegenerative diseases and is now used in clinical trials, because of …

Minocycline modulates neuroinflammation independently of its antimicrobial activity in staphylococcus aureus-induced brain abscess

T Kielian, N Esen, S Liu, NK Phulwani, MM Syed… - The American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Minocycline exerts beneficial immune modulatory effects in several noninfectious
neurodegenerative disease models; however, its potential to influence the host immune …

[HTML][HTML] Immunotherapies in Huntington's disease and α-Synucleinopathies

O Fatoba, Y Ohtake, T Itokazu, T Yamashita - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Modulation of immune activation using immunotherapy has attracted considerable attention
for many years as a potential therapeutic intervention for several inflammation-associated …

The R6 lines of transgenic mice: a model for screening new therapies for Huntington's disease

JM Gil, AC Rego - Brain research reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by an
expanded CAG repeat in the HD gene that results in cortical and striatal degeneration, and …

Minocycline inhibits the growth of glioma by inducing autophagy

WT Liu, CH Lin, M Hsiao, PW Gean - Autophagy, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Minocycline has been shown to alleviate several neurological disorders. Unexpectedly, we
found that minocycline had opposite effects on glioma cells: minocycline induced …

Huntington's disease: present treatments and future therapeutic modalities

RM Bonelli, GK Wenning… - International clinical …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating neuropsychiatric disorder for which therapeutic
interventions have been rather fruitless to date, except in a slight symptomatic relief. Even …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid Disassembly: What Can We Learn from Chaperones?

ZL Almeida, RMM Brito - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Protein aggregation and subsequent accumulation of insoluble amyloid fibrils with cross-β
structure is an intrinsic characteristic of amyloid diseases, ie, amyloidoses. Amyloid …