Is there justification to treat neurodegenerative disorders by repurposing drugs? The case of Alzheimer's disease, lithium, and autophagy

O Damri, N Shemesh, G Agam - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lithium is the prototype mood-stabilizer used for acute and long-term treatment of bipolar
disorder. Cumulated translational research of lithium indicated the drug's neuroprotective …

EVA1A (Eva-1 Homolog A) Promotes endothelial apoptosis and inflammatory activation under disturbed flow via regulation of autophagy

L Canham, S Sendac, MR Diagbouga… - … , and vascular biology, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Hemodynamic wall shear stress (WSS) exerted on the endothelium by flowing
blood determines the spatial distribution of atherosclerotic lesions. Disturbed flow (DF) with …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in the role of autophagy in neurological diseases

T Meng, S Lin, H Zhuang, H Huang, Z He, Y Hu… - Cell Stress, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Autophagy (here refers to macroautophagy) is a catabolic pathway by which large protein
aggregates and damaged organelles are first sequestered into a double-membraned …

On the role of autophagy in human diseases: a gender perspective

P Lista, E Straface, S Brunelleschi… - Journal of cellular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction• Autophagy and disease‐Cancer‐Autophagy and cancer‐Gender differences in
cancer‐Autophagy, gender disparity and cancer‐Neurodegenerative diseases‐Gender …

Centrality of BAGs in plant PCD, stress responses, and host defense

N Thanthrige, S Jain, SD Bhowmik, BJ Ferguson… - Trends in plant …, 2020 - cell.com
Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically regulated process for the selective demise of
unwanted and damaged cells. Although our understanding of plant PCD pathways has …

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver secretome

MS Khan, C Lee, SG Kim - Archives of Pharmacal Research, 2022 - Springer
Metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids and protein degradation occurs in the liver and
contributes to the body's homeostasis by secreting a variety of mediators. Any imbalance in …

w09, a novel autophagy enhancer, induces autophagy-dependent cell apoptosis via activation of the EGFR-mediated RAS-RAF1-MAP2K-MAPK1/3 pathway

P Zhang, Z Zheng, L Ling, X Yang, N Zhang, X Wang… - Autophagy, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) signaling pathway is frequently deregulated in
many malignancies. Therefore, targeting the EGFR pathway is regarded as a promising …

Deregulation of Hexokinase II is associated with glycolysis, autophagy, and the epithelial‐mesenchymal transition in tongue squamous cell carcinoma under hypoxia

G Chen, Y Zhang, J Liang, W Li, Y Zhu… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The glycolytic enzyme Hexokinase (HKII) participates in tumor glycolysis and the
progression of various cancers, but its clinicopathological effect on the progression of …

TNFα-induced necroptosis and autophagy via supression of the p38–NF-κB survival pathway in L929 cells

YC Ye, L Yu, HJ Wang, S Tashiro… - Journal of …, 2011 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) has been reported to induce necroptosis and
autophagy, but its mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, we found that TNFα …

Enhanced autophagy from chronic toxicity of iron and mutant A53T α-synuclein: implications for neuronal cell death in Parkinson disease

KCM Chew, ET Ang, YK Tai, F Tsang, SQ Lo… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Parkinson disease (PD), a prevalent neurodegenerative motor disorder, is characterized by
the rather selective loss of dopaminergic neurons and the presence of α-synuclein-enriched …