Drosophila Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases

B Lu, H Vogel - Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Neurodegenerative diseases are progressive disorders of the nervous system that affect
specific cellular populations in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Although most …

Resveratrol and neurodegenerative diseases: activation of SIRT1 as the potential pathway towards neuroprotection

M Pallàs, G Casadesús, MA Smith… - Current …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
One of the current problems in medicine research is the development of safe drugs for the
treatment of neurological disorders. Furthermore, there is a close relationship between the …

Dissociation of tau toxicity and phosphorylation: role of GSK-3β, MARK and Cdk5 in a Drosophila model

S Chatterjee, TK Sang, GM Lawless… - Human molecular …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Hyperphosphorylation of tau at multiple sites has been implicated in the formation of
neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease; however, the relationship between toxicity and …

Anti‐aging properties of melatonin in an in vitro murine senescence model: involvement of the sirtuin 1 pathway

M Tajes, J Gutierrez‐Cuesta… - Journal of pineal …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Sirtuin 1 is a member of the sirtuin family of protein deacetylases, which have attracted
considerable attention as mediators of lifespan extension in several model organisms …

Neurodegenerative diseases: lessons from genome‐wide screens in small model organisms

TJ Van Ham, R Breitling, MA Swertz… - EMBO molecular …, 2009 - embopress.org
Various age‐related neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease,
polyglutamine expansion diseases and Alzheimer's disease, are associated with the …

[HTML][HTML] Histone deacetylases as targets for the treatment of human neurodegenerative diseases

SR D'Mello - Drug news & perspectives, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are a family of proteins that play an important role in
regulating transcription as well as the function of a variety of cellular proteins. While these …

RNAi for the large non-coding hsrω transcripts suppresses polyglutamine pathogenesis in Drosophila models

M Mallik, SC Lakhotia - Rna Biology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Polyglutamine diseases are a class of inherited neurodegenerative disorders, characterized
by expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeats translated into elongated glutamine tracts within …