[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of ferroptosis and their involvement in brain diseases

I Costa, DJ Barbosa, S Benfeito, V Silva… - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis is a type of regulated cell death characterized by intracellular accumulation of
iron and reactive oxygen species, inhibition of system Xc-, glutathione depletion …

Microglia in neurodegenerative diseases: mechanism and potential therapeutic targets

C Gao, J Jiang, Y Tan, S Chen - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia activation is observed in various neurodegenerative diseases. Recent advances in
single-cell technologies have revealed that these reactive microglia were with high spatial …

The mitophagy pathway and its implications in human diseases

S Wang, H Long, L Hou, B Feng, Z Ma, Y Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles with multiple functions. They participate in necrotic cell
death and programmed apoptotic, and are crucial for cell metabolism and survival …

[HTML][HTML] Glutamate metabolism and recycling at the excitatory synapse in health and neurodegeneration

JV Andersen, KH Markussen, E Jakobsen… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glutamate is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter of the brain. Cellular homeostasis of
glutamate is of paramount importance for normal brain function and relies on an intricate …

Applications of machine learning to diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

MA Myszczynska, PN Ojamies, AMB Lacoste… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Globally, there is a huge unmet need for effective treatments for neurodegenerative
diseases. The complexity of the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal degeneration …

Ferroptosis mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative diseases

CO Reichert, FA de Freitas, J Sampaio-Silva… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ferroptosis is a type of cell death that was described less than a decade ago. It is caused by
the excess of free intracellular iron that leads to lipid (hydro) peroxidation. Iron is essential …

Therapeutic potential of cannabis, cannabidiol, and cannabinoid-based pharmaceuticals

CA Legare, WM Raup-Konsavage, KE Vrana - Pharmacology, 2022 - karger.com
Background: There is a growing interest in the use of cannabis (and its extracts), as well as
CBD oil (hemp extracts containing cannabidiol), for therapeutic purposes. While there is …

An RNA-targeting CRISPR–Cas13d system alleviates disease-related phenotypes in Huntington's disease models

KH Morelli, Q Wu, ML Gosztyla, H Liu, M Yao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal, dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder
caused by CAG trinucleotide expansion in exon 1 of the huntingtin (HTT) gene. Since the …

The development of the concept of ferroptosis

T Hirschhorn, BR Stockwell - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The term ferroptosis was coined in 2012 to describe an iron-dependent regulated form of
cell death caused by the accumulation of lipid-based reactive oxygen species; this type of …

Advances in therapeutic applications of extracellular vesicles

OPB Wiklander, MÁ Brennan, J Lötvall… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanometer-sized, lipid membrane–enclosed vesicles
secreted by most, if not all, cells and contain lipids, proteins, and various nucleic acid …