Autophagy in neurite injury and neurodegeneration: in vitro and in vivo models

CT Chu, ED Plowey, RK Dagda, RW Hickey… - Methods in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent advances indicate that maintaining a balanced level of autophagy is critically
important for neuronal health and function. Pathologic dysregulation of macroautophagy has …

Autophagy negatively regulates early axon growth in cortical neurons

BK Ban, MH Jun, HH Ryu, DJ Jang… - … and cellular biology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Neurite growth requires neurite extension and retraction, which are associated with protein
degradation. Autophagy is a conserved bulk degradation pathway that regulates several …

Controlling the mass action of α‐synuclein in Parkinson's disease

C Kim, SJ Lee - Journal of neurochemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD) is an age‐related neurodegenerative disease with unknown
etiology. Growing evidence from genetic, pathologic, animal modeling, and biochemical …

Autophagy in acute brain injury: feast, famine, or folly?

CM Smith, Y Chen, ML Sullivan, PM Kochanek… - Neurobiology of …, 2011 - Elsevier
In the central nervous system, increased autophagy has now been reported after traumatic
brain and spinal cord injury, cerebral ischemia, intracerebral hemorrhage, and seizures …

Autophagic flux determination in vivo and ex vivo

L Esteban-Martínez, P Boya - Methods, 2015 - Elsevier
Autophagy is a highly dynamic process that mediates the degradation of cellular
constituents inside lysosomes. It is characterized by the formation of autophagosomes …

[HTML][HTML] Multifaceted deaths orchestrated by mitochondria in neurones

P Nagley, GC Higgins, JD Atkin, PM Beart - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2010 - Elsevier
Neurones undergo diverse forms of cell death depending on the nature and severity of the
stress. These death outcomes are now classified into various types of programmed cell …

Loss of G as6 and A xl signaling results in extensive axonal damage, motor deficits, prolonged neuroinflammation, and less remyelination following cuprizone …

AK Ray, JC DuBois, RC Gruber, HM Guzik… - Glia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The TAM (Tyro3, Axl, and MerTK) family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and
their ligands, Gas6 and ProS1, are important for innate immune responses and central …

Autophagy is activated by proteasomal inhibition and involved in aggresome clearance in cultured astrocytes

SB Jänen, H Chaachouay, C Richter‐Landsberg - Glia, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A common pathway underlying a variety of neurodegenerative disorders is the aggregation
and deposition of misfolded proteins. Proteasomal inhibition has been demonstrated to …

Defective autophagy in spastizin mutated patients with hereditary spastic paraparesis type 15

C Vantaggiato, C Crimella, G Airoldi, R Polishchuk… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Hereditary spastic paraparesis type 15 is a recessive complicated form of the disease
clinically characterized by slowly progressive spastic paraparesis and mental deterioration …

Abnormal autophagy, ubiquitination, inflammation and apoptosis are dependent upon lysosomal storage and are useful biomarkers of mucopolysaccharidosis VI

A Tessitore, M Pirozzi, A Auricchio - Pathogenetics, 2009 - Springer
Background Lysosomal storage diseases are characterized by intracellular accumulation of
metabolites within lysosomes. Recent evidence suggests that lysosomal storage impairs …