[HTML][HTML] Neurodegenerative diseases–is metabolic deficiency the root cause?

VR Muddapu, SAP Dharshini… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer, Parkinson, Huntington, and amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, are a prominent class of neurological diseases currently without a cure …

Huntington's disease: mechanisms of pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies

M Jimenez-Sanchez, F Licitra… - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Huntington's disease is a late-onset neurodegenerative disease caused by a CAG
trinucleotide repeat in the gene encoding the huntingtin protein. Despite its well-defined …

[HTML][HTML] Cell type-specific transcriptomics reveals that mutant huntingtin leads to mitochondrial RNA release and neuronal innate immune activation

H Lee, RJ Fenster, SS Pineda, WS Gibbs… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
The mechanisms by which mutant huntingtin (mHTT) leads to neuronal cell death in
Huntington's disease (HD) are not fully understood. To gain new molecular insights, we …

[HTML][HTML] The neuroprotective effects of fisetin, a natural flavonoid in neurodegenerative diseases: Focus on the role of oxidative stress

SS Hassan, S Samanta, R Dash… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Oxidative stress (OS) disrupts the chemical integrity of macromolecules and increases the
risk of neurodegenerative diseases. Fisetin is a flavonoid that exhibits potent antioxidant …

Molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutical targets in Huntington's disease

C Zuccato, M Valenza, E Cattaneo - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat
expansion in the gene encoding for huntingtin protein. A lot has been learned about this …

Enriched environments, experience-dependent plasticity and disorders of the nervous system

J Nithianantharajah, AJ Hannan - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2006 - nature.com
Behavioural, cellular and molecular studies have revealed significant effects of enriched
environments on rodents and other species, and provided new insights into mechanisms of …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive behavioral and molecular characterization of a new knock-in mouse model of Huntington's disease: zQ175

LB Menalled, AE Kudwa, S Miller, J Fitzpatrick… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder
characterized by motor, cognitive and psychiatric manifestations. Since the mutation …

[HTML][HTML] Induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with Huntington's disease show CAG-repeat-expansion-associated phenotypes

Hd iPsc Consortium - Cell stem cell, 2012 - cell.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by an
expanded stretch of CAG trinucleotide repeats that results in neuronal dysfunction and …

Loss of huntingtin-mediated BDNF gene transcription in Huntington's disease

C Zuccato, A Ciammola, D Rigamonti, BR Leavitt… - Science, 2001 - science.org
Huntingtin is a 350-kilodalton protein of unknown function that is mutated in Huntington's
disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disorder. The mutant protein is presumed to acquire a …

Early mitochondrial calcium defects in Huntington's disease are a direct effect of polyglutamines

AV Panov, CA Gutekunst, BR Leavitt, MR Hayden… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of exonic CAG triplet repeats in the
gene encoding huntingtin protein (Htt), but the mechanisms by which this mutant protein …