Mitochondria dysfunction in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease: Recent advances

W Wang, F Zhao, X Ma, G Perry, X Zhu - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2020 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases,
characterized by impaired cognitive function due to progressive loss of neurons in the brain …

Mitochondria in acute myocardial infarction and cardioprotection

CJA Ramachandra, S Hernandez-Resendiz… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and the heart failure (HF) that often follows are among the
leading causes of death and disability worldwide. As such, new treatments are needed to …

Asymmetrically segregated mitochondria provide cellular memory of hematopoietic stem cell replicative history and drive HSC attrition

A Hinge, J He, J Bartram, J Javier, J Xu, E Fjellman… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
The metabolic requirements of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) change with their cell cycle
activity. However, the underlying role of mitochondria remains ill-defined. Here we found …

The role of Drp1 in mitophagy and cell death in the heart

M Tong, D Zablocki, J Sadoshima - Journal of Molecular and Cellular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Maintenance of mitochondrial function and integrity is critical for normal cell survival,
particularly in non-dividing cells with a high-energy demand such as cardiomyocytes. Well …

MitophAging: mitophagy in aging and disease

D Bakula, M Scheibye-Knudsen - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Maintaining mitochondrial health is emerging as a keystone in aging and associated
diseases. The selective degradation of mitochondria by mitophagy is of particular …

Mitochondria define intestinal stem cell differentiation downstream of a FOXO/Notch axis

MC Ludikhuize, M Meerlo, MP Gallego, D Xanthakis… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Differential WNT and Notch signaling regulates differentiation of Lgr5+ crypt-based
columnar cells (CBCs) into intestinal cell lineages. Recently we showed that mitochondrial …

Mitochondrial dynamics in adult cardiomyocytes and heart diseases

A Li, M Gao, W Jiang, Y Qin, G Gong - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are the powerhouse organelles of cells; they participate in ATP generation,
calcium homeostasis, oxidative stress response, and apoptosis. Thus, maintenance of …

Dynamin-related protein 1: A protein critical for mitochondrial fission, mitophagy, and neuronal death in Parkinson's disease

ST Feng, ZZ Wang, YH Yuan, XL Wang, HM Sun… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) that afflicts millions of individuals worldwide is associated with
deposits of aggregate-prone proteins (eg, α-synuclein) and with mitochondrial dysfunction in …

Excitotoxicity as a target against neurodegenerative processes

O Binvignat, J Olloquequi - Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
The global burden of neurodegenerative diseases is alarmingly increasing in parallel to the
aging of population. Although the molecular mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration are …

Targeting mitochondrial fusion and fission proteins for cardioprotection

S Hernandez‐Resendiz, F Prunier… - Journal of Cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
New treatments are needed to protect the myocardium against the detrimental effects of
acute ischaemia/reperfusion (IR) injury following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), in …