Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

ALS genetics, mechanisms, and therapeutics: where are we now?

R Mejzini, LL Flynn, IL Pitout, S Fletcher… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The scientific landscape surrounding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) continues to shift
as the number of genes associated with the disease risk and pathogenesis, and the cellular …

Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Citrus Flavonoid Hesperetin: Special Focus on Neurological Disorders

A Khan, M Ikram, JR Hahm, MO Kim - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative disorders have emerged as a serious health issue in the current era.
The most common neurodegenerative disorders are Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosome dysfunction as a cause of neurodegenerative diseases: Lessons from frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

J Root, P Merino, A Nuckols, M Johnson… - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are fatal
neurodegenerative disorders that are thought to exist on a clinical and pathological …

Oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases

E Niedzielska, I Smaga, M Gawlik, A Moniczewski… - Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
The pathophysiologies of neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's disease (PD), and Alzheimer's disease (AD), are far from being …

Going the extra (synaptic) mile: excitotoxicity as the road toward neurodegenerative diseases

A Armada-Moreira, JI Gomes, CC Pina… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Excitotoxicity is a phenomenon that describes the toxic actions of excitatory
neurotransmitters, primarily glutamate, where the exacerbated or prolonged activation of …

Autophagy in neurodegenerative diseases: a hunter for aggregates

H Park, JH Kang, S Lee - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cells have developed elaborate quality-control mechanisms for proteins and organelles to
maintain cellular homeostasis. Such quality-control mechanisms are maintained by …

Role of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) signalling in neurodegenerative diseases: an mechanistic approach

S Singh, TG Singh - Current Neuropharmacology, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
A transcriptional regulatory nuclear factor kappa B (NF-ΚB) protein is a modulator of cellular
biological activity via binding to a promoter region in the nucleus and transcribing various …

Mutant SOD1 mediated pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SJ Kaur, SR McKeown, S Rashid - Gene, 2016 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neural disorder that causes death of the motor
neurons in the brain and spinal cord; this affects the voluntary muscles and gradually leads …

Exome sequencing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identifies risk genes and pathways

ET Cirulli, BN Lasseigne, S Petrovski, PC Sapp… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurological disease with no effective
treatment. We report the results of a moderate-scale sequencing study aimed at increasing …