Modeling Parkinson's disease with the alpha-synuclein protein

M Gómez-Benito, N Granado, P García-Sanz… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) is a key protein involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology. PD
is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neuronal cells in the substantia nigra pars …

Dysfunction of the neurovascular unit in ischemic stroke and neurodegenerative diseases: an aging effect

W Cai, K Zhang, P Li, L Zhu, J Xu, B Yang, X Hu… - Ageing research …, 2017 - Elsevier
Current understanding on the mechanisms of brain injury and neurodegeneration highlights
an appreciation of multicellular interactions within the neurovascular unit (NVU), which …

GRP78 at the centre of the stage in cancer and neuroprotection

C Casas - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein GRP78, also known as BiP and HSP5a, is a
multifunctional protein with activities far beyond its well-known role in the unfolded protein …

Dysfunction of cellular proteostasis in Parkinson's disease

Š Lehtonen, TM Sonninen, S Wojciechowski… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Despite decades of research, current therapeutic interventions for Parkinson's disease (PD)
are insufficient as they fail to modify disease progression by ameliorating the underlying …

Modulating the integrated stress response to slow aging and ameliorate age-related pathology

MJ Derisbourg, MD Hartman, MS Denzel - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Healthy aging requires the coordination of numerous stress signaling pathways that
converge on the protein homeostasis network. The integrated stress response (ISR) is …

The endoplasmic reticulum stress/unfolded protein response and their contributions to Parkinson's disease physiopathology

CA Costa, WE Manaa, E Duplan, F Checler - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multifactorial age-related movement disorder in which defects
of both mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) have been reported. The unfolded …

Increased glucose transport into neurons rescues Aβ toxicity in Drosophila

T Niccoli, M Cabecinha, A Tillmann, F Kerr, CT Wong… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Glucose hypometabolism is a prominent feature of the brains of patients with Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Disease progression is associated with a reduction in glucose transporters in …

Parkinson's disease: experimental models and reality

P Jiang, DW Dickson - Acta neuropathologica, 2018 - Springer
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive movement disorder of adults and the
second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease …

Integrated molecular landscape of Parkinson's disease

CJHM Klemann, GJM Martens, M Sharma… - npj Parkinson's …, 2017 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease is caused by a complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors.
Although a number of independent molecular pathways and processes have been …

Mechanisms of alpha-synuclein toxicity: An update and outlook

IC Brás, M Xylaki, TF Outeiro - Progress in brain research, 2020 - Elsevier
Alpha-synuclein (aSyn) was identified as the main component of inclusions that define
synucleinopathies more than 20 years ago. Since then, aSyn has been extensively studied …