Towards early detection of neurodegenerative diseases: A gut feeling

S Makdissi, BD Parsons, F Di Cara - Frontiers in cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The gastrointestinal tract communicates with the nervous system through a bidirectional
network of signaling pathways called the gut-brain axis, which consists of multiple …

Emerging genetic complexity and rare genetic variants in neurodegenerative brain diseases

F Perrone, R Cacace, J van der Zee… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Knowledge of the molecular etiology of neurodegenerative brain diseases (NBD)
has substantially increased over the past three decades. Early genetic studies of NBD …

GCH1 variants contribute to the risk and earlier age-at-onset of Parkinson's disease: a two-cohort case-control study

H Pan, Y Zhao, J Mei, Z Fang, Y Wang, X Zhou… - Translational …, 2020 - Springer
Background Common and rare variants of guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase 1 (GCH1)
gene may play important roles in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, there is a lack of …

Genetic modifiers and non-Mendelian aspects of CMT

DM Bis-Brewer, S Fazal, S Züchner - Brain research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathies are amongst the most common inherited
diseases in neurology. While great strides have been made to identify the genesis of these …

Comprehensive genetic analysis of a Hungarian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cohort

K Tripolszki, P Gampawar, H Schmidt, ZF Nagy… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease
characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons. Genetic factors play a key role in ALS …

Gelatin-derived carbon quantum dots mitigate herbicide-induced neurotoxic effects in vitro and in vivo

J Ahlawat, G Henriquez, A Varela-Ramirez… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - Elsevier
The herbicide and viologen, N, N′-dimethyl-4, 4′-bipyridinium dichloride (Paraquat) is
known to be toxic to neuronal cells by a multifactorial process involving an elevation in the …

Targeting the microbiota-mitochondria crosstalk in neurodegeneration with senotherapeutics

J Homolak - Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative diseases are a group of age-related disorders characterized by a
chronic and progressive loss of function and/or structure of synapses, neurons, and glial …

A perspective on persistent toxicants in veterans and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: identifying exposures determining higher ALS risk

DB Re, B Yan, L Calderón-Garcidueñas, AS Andrew… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Multiple studies indicate that United States veterans have an increased risk of developing
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) compared to civilians. However, the responsible …

[HTML][HTML] The whole exome sequencing clarifies the genotype-phenotype correlations in patients with early-onset dementia

Y Xu, X Liu, J Shen, W Tian, R Fang, B Li, J Ma… - Aging and …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Our study aimed to identify the underlying causes in patients with early onset dementia by
clinical and genetic exploration. We recruited a group of 38 patients with early-onset …

Perspectives on the genomics of HSP beyond Mendelian inheritance

DM Bis-Brewer, S Züchner - Frontiers in neurology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia is an extraordinarily heterogeneous disease caused by over
50 Mendelian genes. Recent applications of next-generation sequencing, large scale data …