Ageing as a risk factor for neurodegenerative disease

Y Hou, X Dan, M Babbar, Y Wei… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Ageing is the primary risk factor for most neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer
disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD). One in ten individuals aged≥ 65 years has AD …

Microglia-mediated neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

CS Subhramanyam, C Wang, Q Hu… - Seminars in cell & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microglia, being the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, play an important
role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and contributes towards brain development under …

Inflammasomes in neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases

S Voet, S Srinivasan, M Lamkanfi… - EMBO molecular …, 2019 - embopress.org
Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration often result from the aberrant deposition of
aggregated host proteins, including amyloid‐β, α‐synuclein, and prions, that can activate …

Age-related Huntington's disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy

YM Oh, SW Lee, WK Kim, S Chen, VA Church… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder with adult-onset
clinical symptoms, but the mechanism by which aging drives the onset of neurodegeneration …

Innate immune activation in neurodegenerative disease

MT Heneka, MP Kummer, E Latz - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2014 - nature.com
The triggering of innate immune mechanisms is emerging as a crucial component of major
neurodegenerative diseases. Microglia and other cell types in the brain can be activated in …

Brain tissue responses to neural implants impact signal sensitivity and intervention strategies

TDY Kozai, AS Jaquins-Gerstl… - ACS chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Implantable biosensors are valuable scientific tools for basic neuroscience research and
clinical applications. Neurotechnologies provide direct readouts of neurological signal and …

Minocycline: far beyond an antibiotic

N Garrido‐Mesa, A Zarzuelo… - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Minocycline is a second‐generation, semi‐synthetic tetracycline that has been in therapeutic
use for over 30 years because of its antibiotic properties against both gram‐positive and …

Pyroptosis: host cell death and inflammation

T Bergsbaken, SL Fink, BT Cookson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
Eukaryotic cells can initiate several distinct programmes of self-destruction, and the nature of
the cell death process (non-inflammatory or proinflammatory) instructs responses of …

Molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutical targets in Huntington's disease

C Zuccato, M Valenza, E Cattaneo - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat
expansion in the gene encoding for huntingtin protein. A lot has been learned about this …

Caspase‐1‐dependent pore formation during pyroptosis leads to osmotic lysis of infected host macrophages

SL Fink, BT Cookson - Cellular microbiology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invades host macrophages and induces a unique
caspase‐1‐dependent pathway of cell death termed pyroptosis, which is activated during …