Linking inflammation, aberrant glutamate-dopamine interaction, and post-synaptic changes: translational relevance for schizophrenia and antipsychotic treatment: a …

A de Bartolomeis, A Barone, L Vellucci, B Mazza… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Evidence from clinical, preclinical, and post-mortem studies supports the
inflammatory/immune hypothesis of schizophrenia pathogenesis. Less evident is the link …

Notch signaling and neuronal death in stroke

TV Arumugam, SH Baik, P Balaganapathy… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and death, with the outcome largely
determined by the amount of hypoxia-related neuronal death in the affected brain regions …

Cationic arginine-rich peptides (CARPs): a novel class of neuroprotective agents with a multimodal mechanism of action

BP Meloni, FL Mastaglia, NW Knuckey - Frontiers in neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There are virtually no clinically available neuroprotective drugs for the treatment of acute
and chronic neurological disorders, hence there is an urgent need for the development of …

Schizophrenia synaptic pathology and antipsychotic treatment in the framework of oxidative and mitochondrial dysfunction: translational highlights for the clinics and …

G De Simone, B Mazza, L Vellucci, A Barone… - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a worldwide mental illness characterized by alterations at dopaminergic
and glutamatergic synapses resulting in global dysconnectivity within and between brain …

Poly-arginine and arginine-rich peptides are neuroprotective in stroke models

BP Meloni, LM Brookes, VW Clark… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Using cortical neuronal cultures and glutamic acid excitotoxicity and oxygen-glucose
deprivation (OGD) stroke models, we demonstrated that poly-arginine and arginine-rich cell …

Neuroprotective peptides fused to arginine-rich cell penetrating peptides: Neuroprotective mechanism likely mediated by peptide endocytic properties

BP Meloni, D Milani, AB Edwards, RS Anderton… - Pharmacology & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Several recent studies have demonstrated that TAT and other arginine-rich cell penetrating
peptides (CPPs) have intrinsic neuroprotective properties in their own right. Examples, we …

Neurobiochemical characteristics of arginine-rich peptides explain their potential therapeutic efficacy in neurodegenerative diseases

S Eskandari, A Rezayof, SM Asghari, S Hashemizadeh - Neuropeptides, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer̕ s disease (AD), Parkinson̕ s disease
(PD), Huntington̕ s disease (HD), and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) require special …

GFP-complementation assay to detect functional CPP and protein delivery into living cells

N Milech, BAC Longville, PT Cunningham… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Efficient cargo uptake is essential for cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) therapeutics, which
deliver widely diverse cargoes by exploiting natural cell processes to penetrate the cell's …

The neuroprotective efficacy of cell-penetrating peptides TAT, penetratin, Arg-9, and Pep-1 in glutamic acid, kainic acid, and in vitro ischemia injury models using …

BP Meloni, AJ Craig, N Milech, RM Hopkins… - Cellular and molecular …, 2014 - Springer
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are small peptides (typically 5–25 amino acids), which are
used to facilitate the delivery of normally non-permeable cargos such as other peptides …

Mitochondria and neuroprotection in stroke: Cationic arginine-rich peptides (CARPs) as a novel class of mitochondria-targeted neuroprotective therapeutics

G MacDougall, RS Anderton, FL Mastaglia… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Stroke is the second leading cause of death globally and represents a major cause of
devastating long-term disability. Despite sustained efforts to develop clinically effective …