Intrinsic mechanisms of neuronal axon regeneration

M Mahar, V Cavalli - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Permanent disabilities following CNS injuries result from the failure of injured axons to
regenerate and rebuild functional connections with their original targets. By contrast, injury …

Genetic insights into the neurodevelopmental origins of schizophrenia

R Birnbaum, DR Weinberger - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder with a longstanding history of
neurobiological investigation. Although the underlying causal mechanisms remain …

Mechanisms and functions of lysosome positioning

J Pu, CM Guardia, T Keren-Kaplan… - Journal of cell …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Lysosomes have been classically considered terminal degradative organelles, but in recent
years they have been found to participate in many other cellular processes, including killing …

BORC/kinesin-1 ensemble drives polarized transport of lysosomes into the axon

GG Farías, CM Guardia, R De Pace… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The ability of lysosomes to move within the cytoplasm is important for many cellular
functions. This ability is particularly critical in neurons, which comprise vast, highly …

[HTML][HTML] Prioritization of potential causative genes for schizophrenia in placenta

G Ursini, P Di Carlo, S Mukherjee, Q Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Our earlier work has shown that genomic risk for schizophrenia converges with early life
complications in affecting risk for the disorder and sex-biased neurodevelopmental …

Profiling gene expression in the human dentate gyrus granule cell layer reveals insights into schizophrenia and its genetic risk

AE Jaffe, DJ Hoeppner, T Saito, L Blanpain… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Specific cell populations may have unique contributions to schizophrenia but may be missed
in studies of homogenate tissue. Here laser capture microdissection followed by RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Functional genomics reveal gene regulatory mechanisms underlying schizophrenia risk

Y Huo, S Li, J Liu, X Li, XJ Luo - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified over 180 independent
schizophrenia risk loci. Nevertheless, how the risk variants in the reported loci confer …

Consensus molecular environment of schizophrenia risk genes in coexpression networks shifting across age and brain regions

G Pergola, M Parihar, L Sportelli, R Bharadwaj… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental brain disorder whose genetic risk is associated with
shifting clinical phenomena across the life span. We investigated the convergence of …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting transcriptomic signatures of neuronal differentiation and maturation using iPSCs

EE Burke, JG Chenoweth, JH Shin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are a powerful model of neural
differentiation and maturation. We present a hiPSC transcriptomics resource on …

[HTML][HTML] Long-read sequencing reveals the complex splicing profile of the psychiatric risk gene CACNA1C in human brain

MB Clark, T Wrzesinski, AB Garcia, NAL Hall… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
RNA splicing is a key mechanism linking genetic variation with psychiatric disorders.
Splicing profiles are particularly diverse in brain and difficult to accurately identify and …