Neurofilament proteins as biomarkers to monitor neurological diseases and the efficacy of therapies

A Yuan, RA Nixon - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biomarkers of neurodegeneration and neuronal injury have the potential to improve
diagnostic accuracy, disease monitoring, prognosis, and measure treatment efficacy …

Nestin-expressing progenitor cells: function, identity and therapeutic implications

A Bernal, L Arranz - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2018 - Springer
The neuroepithelial stem cell protein, or Nestin, is a cytoskeletal intermediate filament
initially characterized in neural stem cells. However, current extensive evidence obtained in …

Developmental diversification of cortical inhibitory interneurons

C Mayer, C Hafemeister, RC Bandler, R Machold… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Diverse subsets of cortical interneurons have vital roles in higher-order brain functions. To
investigate how this diversity is generated, here we used single-cell RNA sequencing to …

Molecular markers in glioma

K Ludwig, HI Kornblum - Journal of neuro-oncology, 2017 - Springer
Gliomas are the most malignant and aggressive form of brain tumors, and account for the
majority of brain cancer related deaths. Malignant gliomas, including glioblastoma are …

IDH1 mutation is sufficient to establish the glioma hypermethylator phenotype

S Turcan, D Rohle, A Goenka, LA Walsh, F Fang… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Both genome-wide genetic and epigenetic alterations are fundamentally important for the
development of cancers, but the interdependence of these aberrations is poorly understood …

Prospective identification and purification of quiescent adult neural stem cells from their in vivo niche

P Codega, V Silva-Vargas, A Paul… - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Adult neurogenic niches harbor quiescent neural stem cells; however, their in vivo identity
has been elusive. Here, we prospectively isolate GFAP+ CD133+(quiescent neural stem …

[HTML][HTML] Pericytes: developmental, physiological, and pathological perspectives, problems, and promises

A Armulik, G Genové, C Betsholtz - Developmental cell, 2011 - cell.com
Pericytes, the mural cells of blood microvessels, have recently come into focus as regulators
of vascular morphogenesis and function during development, cardiovascular homeostasis …

Stem cell models of human brain development

I Kelava, MA Lancaster - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Recent breakthroughs in pluripotent stem cell technologies have enabled a new class of in
vitro systems for functional modeling of human brain development. These advances, in …

[HTML][HTML] Overview of the muscle cytoskeleton

CA Henderson, CG Gomez, SM Novak… - Comprehensive …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cardiac and skeletal striated muscles are intricately designed machines responsible for
muscle contraction. Coordination of the basic contractile unit, the sarcomere, and the …

Cytoskeletal dynamics in epithelial-mesenchymal transition: insights into therapeutic targets for cancer metastasis

A Datta, S Deng, V Gopal, KCH Yap, CE Halim, ML Lye… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a well-documented
process in the study of cancer metastases. The cytoskeleton is an intricate network involved …