Huntington disease: new insights into molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, MD Flower, CA Ross, EJ Wild - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG repeat expansion
in the huntingtin gene (HTT) and involves a complex web of pathogenic mechanisms …

Tau and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: Interplay mechanisms and clinical translation

Y Chen, Y Yu - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2023 - Springer
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) contributes to most cases of dementia. Its prominent
neuropathological features are the extracellular neuritic plaques and intercellular …

Protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases: implications and strategies

P Sweeney, H Park, M Baumann, J Dunlop… - Translational …, 2017 - Springer
A hallmark of neurodegenerative proteinopathies is the formation of misfolded protein
aggregates that cause cellular toxicity and contribute to cellular proteostatic collapse …

Extracellular vesicles: Novel promising delivery systems for therapy of brain diseases

D Rufino-Ramos, PR Albuquerque, V Carmona… - Journal of Controlled …, 2017 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-derived membrane vesicles virtually secreted by all
cells, including brain cells. EVs are a major term that includes apoptotic bodies …

C. elegans neurons jettison protein aggregates and mitochondria under neurotoxic stress

I Melentijevic, ML Toth, ML Arnold, RJ Guasp… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The toxicity of misfolded proteins and mitochondrial dysfunction are pivotal factors that
promote age-associated functional neuronal decline and neurodegenerative disease …

What is the evidence that tau pathology spreads through prion-like propagation?

A Mudher, M Colin, S Dujardin, M Medina… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2017 - Springer
Emerging experimental evidence suggests that the spread of tau pathology in the brain in
Tauopathies reflects the propagation of abnormal tau species along neuroanatomically …

Elusive roles for reactive astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases

L Ben Haim, MA Carrillo-de Sauvage… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Astrocytes play crucial roles in the brain and are involved in the neuroinflammatory
response. They become reactive in response to virtually all pathological situations in the …

Drosophila as an In Vivo Model for Human Neurodegenerative Disease

L McGurk, A Berson, NM Bonini - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
With the increase in the ageing population, neurodegenerative disease is devastating to
families and poses a huge burden on society. The brain and spinal cord are extraordinarily …

Exosomes in the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases

J Howitt, AF Hill - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016 - ASBMB
More than 30 years ago, two unexpected findings were discovered that challenged
conventional thinking in biology. The first was the identification of a misfolded protein with …

Tau internalization is regulated by 6-O sulfation on heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs)

JN Rauch, JJ Chen, AW Sorum, GM Miller, T Sharf… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The misfolding and accumulation of tau protein into intracellular aggregates known as
neurofibrillary tangles is a pathological hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such as …