Insulin resistance and neurodegeneration: progress towards the development of new therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease

SM De la Monte - Drugs, 2017 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) should be regarded as a degenerative metabolic disease caused
by brain insulin resistance and deficiency, and overlapping with the molecular, biochemical …

Fatty acid signaling mechanisms in neural cells: fatty acid receptors

LJ Falomir-Lockhart, GF Cavazzutti… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Fatty acids (FAs) are typically associated with structural and metabolic roles, as they can be
stored as triglycerides, degraded by β-oxidation or used in phospholipids' synthesis, the …

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) as therapeutic target in neurodegenerative disorders

S Agarwal, A Yadav, RK Chaturvedi - Biochemical and biophysical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are nuclear receptors and they serve to
be a promising therapeutic target for several neurodegenerative disorders, which includes …

Targeting nuclear receptors in neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation

S Willems, D Zaienne, D Merk - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nuclear receptors, also known as ligand-activated transcription factors, regulate gene
expression upon ligand signals and present as attractive therapeutic targets especially in …

High fat diet suppresses peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors and reduces dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra

YC Kao, WY Wei, KJ Tsai, LC Wang - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Although several epidemiologic and animal studies have revealed correlations between
obesity and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson disease (PD), the underlying …

PPARß/δ agonist alleviates NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated neuroinflammation in the MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease

L Chen, L Xue, J Zheng, X Tian, Y Zhang… - Behavioural brain …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•GW501516 reduces movement impairment of PD mice.•GW501516 attenuates
dopaminergic neuronal degeneration in the midbrain of PD mice as well as dopamin loss in …

Exosomes rich in Wnt5 improved circadian rhythm dysfunction via enhanced PPARγ activity in the 6-hydroxydopamine model of Parkinson's disease

Z Li, Y Li, X Xu, J Gu, H Chen, Y Gui - Neuroscience Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Sleep disorder is one of the most common non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD)
and even appear as early symptoms. Here we investigated the therapeutic potential of …

Mouse models of human proprotein convertase insufficiency

M Shakya, I Lindberg - Endocrine reviews, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The kexin-like proprotein convertases perform the initial proteolytic cleavages that ultimately
generate a variety of different mature peptide and proteins, ranging from brain …

Reverberating Action Potentials and the Emergence of Short Circuit Propagation in Gliosis

R Montgomery - 2024 - preprints.org
This study explores the intriguing phenomenon of action potentials reverberating and
propagating in high-resistance tissues, such as gliosis, leading to the emergence of short …

[PDF][PDF] Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors: A New Ray Of Hope For Parkinson's Disease

R Bhatt, S Parmar - ajphr.com
ABSTRACT PD (PD) is a debilitating progressive age-related neurodegenerative disorder
that negatively impacts bodily movement. It is the second most common type of …