[HTML][HTML] Making neurons, made easy: The use of Neurogenin-2 in neuronal differentiation

AJ Hulme, S Maksour, MSC Glover, S Miellet, M Dottori - Stem Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Directed neuronal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), neural
progenitors, or fibroblasts using transcription factors has allowed for the rapid and highly …

Targeting tyrosine phosphatases: time to end the stigma

SM Stanford, N Bottini - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are a family of enzymes essential for numerous
cellular processes, and several PTPs have been validated as therapeutic targets for human …

Developmental excitation-inhibition imbalance underlying psychoses revealed by single-cell analyses of discordant twins-derived cerebral organoids

T Sawada, TE Chater, Y Sasagawa, M Yoshimura… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite extensive genetic and neuroimaging studies, detailed cellular mechanisms
underlying schizophrenia and bipolar disorder remain poorly understood. Recent progress …

Transcriptional signatures of schizophrenia in hiPSC-derived NPCs and neurons are concordant with post-mortem adult brains

GE Hoffman, BJ Hartley, E Flaherty, I Ladran… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The power of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-based studies to resolve the
smaller effects of common variants within the size of cohorts that can be realistically …

The methyltransferase SETDB1 regulates a large neuron-specific topological chromatin domain

Y Jiang, YHE Loh, P Rajarajan, T Hirayama, W Liao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We report locus-specific disintegration of megabase-scale chromosomal conformations in
brain after neuronal ablation of Setdb1 (also known as Kmt1e; encodes a histone H3 lysine …

Male-specific deficits in natural reward learning in a mouse model of neurodevelopmental disorders

NM Grissom, SE McKee, H Schoch, N Bowman… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders, are highly male
biased, but the underpinnings of this are unknown. Striatal dysfunction has been strongly …

New considerations for hiPSC-based models of neuropsychiatric disorders

GE Hoffman, N Schrode, E Flaherty… - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
The development of human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) has made possible
patient-specific modeling across the spectrum of human disease. Here, we discuss recent …

Targeting NMDA receptors in neuropsychiatric disorders by drug screening on human neurons derived from pluripotent stem cells

W Zhang, PJ Ross, J Ellis, MW Salter - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
NMDA receptors (NMDARs), a prominent subtype of glutamatergic receptors, are implicated
in the pathogenesis and development of neuropsychiatric disorders such as epilepsy …

Protein phosphatase 2A and tau: an orchestrated 'Pas de Deux'

G Taleski, E Sontag - FEBS letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The neuronal microtubule‐associated protein tau serves a critical role in regulating axonal
microtubule dynamics to support neuronal and synaptic functions. Furthermore, it contributes …

Common developmental genome deprogramming in schizophrenia—Role of Integrative Nuclear FGFR1 Signaling (INFS)

ST Narla, YW Lee, CA Benson, P Sarder… - Schizophrenia …, 2017 - Elsevier
The watershed-hypothesis of schizophrenia asserts that over 200 different mutations
dysregulate distinct pathways that converge on an unspecified common mechanism (s) that …