Glycogen synthase kinase-3 inhibitors: preclinical and clinical focus on CNS-A decade onward

SM Arciniegas Ruiz, H Eldar-Finkelman - Frontiers in molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The protein kinase, GSK-3, participates in diverse biological processes and is now
recognized a promising drug discovery target in treating multiple pathological conditions …

Advances of zebrafish in neurodegenerative disease: from models to drug discovery

X Wang, JB Zhang, KJ He, F Wang… - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative disease (NDD), including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, are characterized by the progressive loss of neurons which …

Radial glia in the zebrafish brain: Functional, structural, and physiological comparison with the mammalian glia

N Jurisch‐Yaksi, E Yaksi, C Kizil - Glia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The neuroscience community has witnessed a tremendous expansion of glia research. Glial
cells are now on center stage with leading roles in the development, maturation, and …

Neuron-glia interaction through Serotonin-BDNF-NGFR axis enables regenerative neurogenesis in Alzheimer's model of adult zebrafish brain

P Bhattarai, MI Cosacak, V Mashkaryan, S Demir… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
It was recently suggested that supplying the brain with new neurons could counteract
Alzheimer's disease (AD). This provocative idea requires further testing in experimental …

Nerve growth factor receptor (Ngfr) induces neurogenic plasticity by suppressing reactive astroglial Lcn2/Slc22a17 signaling in Alzheimer's disease

T Siddiqui, MI Cosacak, S Popova, P Bhattarai… - NPJ Regenerative …, 2023 - nature.com
Neurogenesis, crucial for brain resilience, is reduced in Alzheimer's disease (AD) that
induces astroglial reactivity at the expense of the pro-neurogenic potential, and restoring …

When good kinases go rogue: GSK3, p38 MAPK and CDKs as therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease

SR D'Mello - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a mostly sporadic brain disorder characterized by cognitive
decline resulting from selective neurodegeneration in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex …

FMNL2 regulates gliovascular interactions and is associated with vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer's disease

AJ Lee, NS Raghavan, P Bhattarai, T Siddiqui… - Acta …, 2022 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk
factors (CVRFs) during middle age and later and is frequently accompanied by …

Single-cell transcriptomics analyses of neural stem cell heterogeneity and contextual plasticity in a zebrafish brain model of amyloid toxicity

MI Cosacak, P Bhattarai, S Reinhardt, A Petzold… - Cell Reports, 2019 - cell.com
The neural stem cell (NSC) reservoir can be harnessed for stem cell-based regenerative
therapies. Zebrafish remarkably regenerate their brain by inducing NSC plasticity in a …

Physiological and pathological roles of Cdk5: potential directions for therapeutic targeting in neurodegenerative disease

AB Allnutt, AK Waters, S Kesari… - ACS chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) is a proline-directed serine (ser)/threonine (Thr) kinase
that has been demonstrated to be one of the most functionally diverse kinases within …

Glycogen synthase kinase 3β in cancer biology and treatment

T Domoto, M Uehara, D Bolidong, T Minamoto - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glycogen synthase kinase (GSK) 3β is a multifunctional serine/threonine protein kinase with
more than 100 substrates and interacting molecules. GSK3β is normally active in cells and …