Recent Advances in High-Content Imaging and Analysis in iPSC-Based Modelling of Neurodegenerative Diseases

G Menduti, M Boido - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the field of neurodegenerative pathologies, the platforms for disease modelling based on
patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) represent a valuable molecular …

Practical issues in stem cell therapy for Alzheimer's disease

K Sugaya, YD Kwak, O Ohmitsu… - Current Alzheimer …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
We have demonstrated that aged animals show significant improvements in cognitive
function and neurogenesis after brain transplantation of human neural stem cells or of …

MicroRNA-124 and-137 cooperativity controls caspase-3 activity through BCL2L13 in hippocampal neural stem cells

M Schouten, SA Fratantoni, CJ Hubens, SR Piersma… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Adult neurogenesis continuously contributes new neurons to hippocampal circuits and the
programmed death of a subset of immature cells provides a primary mechanism controlling …

Loss of Arf causes tumor progression of PDGFB-induced oligodendroglioma

E Tchougounova, M Kastemar, D Bråsäter, EC Holland… - Oncogene, 2007 - nature.com
In a subset of gliomas, the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) signaling pathway is
perturbed. This is usually an early event occurring in low-grade tumors. In high-grade …

The pregnancy hormones human chorionic gonadotropin and progesterone induce human embryonic stem cell proliferation and differentiation into neuroectodermal …

MJ Gallego, P Porayette, MM Kaltcheva… - Stem cell research & …, 2010 - Springer
Introduction The physiological signals that direct the division and differentiation of the zygote
to form a blastocyst, and subsequent embryonic stem cell division and differentiation during …

Mechanistic insight into neurotoxicity induced by developmental insults

C Tamm, S Ceccatelli - Biochemical and biophysical research …, 2017 - Elsevier
Epidemiological and/or experimental studies have shown that unfavorable prenatal
environmental factors, such as stress or exposure to certain neurotoxic environmental …

Amyloid-β precursor protein induces glial differentiation of neural progenitor cells by activation of the IL-6/gp130 signaling pathway

YD Kwak, E Dantuma, S Merchant, S Bushnev… - Neurotoxicity …, 2010 - Springer
Although amyloid precursor protein (APP) due to the cytotoxicity of Aβ peptides, has been
intensively studied, the physiological role of APP still remains wrapped up in veil. In this …

On the biological significance of DNA methylation

W Doerfler - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2005 - Springer
This chapter presents a personal account of the work on DNA methylation in viral and
mammalian systems performed in the author's laboratory in the course of the past thirty …

Influence of in vitro manipulation on the stability of methylation patterns in the Snurf/Snrpn‐imprinting region in mouse embryonic stem cells

A Schumacher, W Doerfler - Nucleic Acids Research, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Recent work on embryonic stem (ES) cells showed that stem cell‐derived tissues and
embryos, cloned from ES cell nuclei, often fail to maintain epigenetic states of imprinted …

De novo methylation, long-term promoter silencing, methylation patterns in the human genome, and consequences of foreign DNA insertion

W Doerfler - DNA Methylation: Basic Mechanisms, 2006 - Springer
This chapter presents a personal account of the work on DNA methylation in viral and
mammalian systems performed in the author's laboratory in the course of the past 30 years …