The emerging role of furin in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases

Y Zhang, X Gao, X Bai, S Yao, YZ Chang… - Translational …, 2022 - Springer
Furin is an important mammalian proprotein convertase that catalyzes the proteolytic
maturation of a variety of prohormones and proproteins in the secretory pathway. In the …

Notch: an interactive player in neurogenesis and disease

R Zhang, A Engler, V Taylor - Cell and Tissue Research, 2018 - Springer
Notch signaling is evolutionarily conserved from Drosophila to human. It plays critical roles
in neural stem cell maintenance and neurogenesis in the embryonic brain as well as in the …

LncRNA NEAT1 affects inflammatory response by targeting miR-129-5p and regulating Notch signaling pathway in epilepsy

Y Wan, ZQ Yang - Cell Cycle, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
It is crucial to understand the molecular mechanisms involved in epileptogenesis. This study
aims to investigate the role of lncRNA NEAT1, miR-129-5p and Notch signaling pathway in …

Regulation of the Notch signaling pathway by natural products for cancer therapy

J Cai, Y Qiao, L Chen, Y Lu, D Zheng - The Journal of Nutritional …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Notch signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that modulates normal
biological processes involved in cellular differentiation, apoptosis, and stem cell self …

Pharmacologic inhibition of Hsp90 to prevent GLT-1 degradation as an effective therapy for epilepsy

L Sha, X Wang, J Li, X Shi, L Wu, Y Shen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
The glutamate transporter GLT-1 is critical for the maintenance of low interstitial glutamate
concentrations. Loss of GLT-1 is commonly observed in neurological disorders, including …

Silencing of microRNA-146a alleviates the neural damage in temporal lobe epilepsy by down-regulating Notch-1

H Huang, G Cui, H Tang, L Kong, X Wang, C Cui… - Molecular brain, 2019 - Springer
This study aimed to evaluate the specific regulatory roles of microRNA-146a (miRNA-146a)
in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and explore the related regulatory mechanisms. A rat model …

Notch signaling regulates microglial activation and inflammatory reactions in a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy

L Wu, Y Li, M Yu, F Yang, M Tu, H Xu - Neurochemical research, 2018 - Springer
The inflammatory response mediated by microglia in the central nervous system is closely
related to epilepsy. Notch signaling plays an important role in the microglial activation during …

Evolving targets for anti-epileptic drug discovery

D Raut, LK Bhatt - European Journal of Pharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects almost 70 million people worldwide of all
socioeconomic groups. The currently available medications aim to restore the balance …

HIF-1α is critical for the activation of notch signaling in neurogenesis during acute epilepsy

Y Li, L Wu, M Yu, F Yang, B Wu, S Lu, M Tu, H Xu - Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Emerging evidence suggests that hypoxia-inducible factors (specifically, HIF-1α) and Notch
signaling are involved in epileptogenesis and that cross-coupling exists between HIF-1α …

An early increase in glutamate is critical for the development of depression-like behavior in a chronic restraint stress (CRS) model

J Li, L Sha, Q Xu - Brain Research Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
Dysfunction in glutamate homeostasis contributes to the pathology of depression-like
behavior. Using a chronic restraint stress (CRS) model of depression in C57BL/6 mice, we …