Neuropeptide Y (NPY) as a therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases.

abstract：:We recently reported evidence for disturbed synaptic versus extrasynaptic NMDAR transmission in the early pathogenesis of Huntington's disease (HD), a late-onset neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG repeat expansion in the gene encoding huntingtin. Studies in glutamatergic cells indicate that synaptic NMDAR transm...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Milnerwood AJ,Kaufman AM,Sepers MD,Gladding CM,Zhang L,Wang L,Fan J,Coquinco A,Qiao JY,Lee H,Wang YT,Cynader M,Raymond LA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide proliferation of mobile phones raises the question of the effects of 900-MHz electromagnetic fields (EMF) on the brain. Using a head-only exposure device in the rat, we showed that a 15-min exposure to 900-MHz pulsed microwaves at a high brain-averaged power of 6 W/kg induced a strong glial reaction in t...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Mausset-Bonnefont AL,Hirbec H,Bonnefont X,Privat A,Vignon J,de Sèze R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative disease characterized by movement disorders, cognitive decline and neuropsychiatric symptoms. HD is caused by expanded CAG tract within the coding region of Huntingtin protein. Despite major insights into the molecular mechanisms leading to HD, no effective cure...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Dupont P,Besson MT,Devaux J,Liévens JC

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) has been modeled in transgenic mice by introducing mutated versions of human genomic DNA encompassing the entire gene for Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1). In this setting, the transgene is expressed throughout the body and results in mice that faithfully recapitulate man...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Wang J,Xu G,Slunt HH,Gonzales V,Coonfield M,Fromholt D,Copeland NG,Jenkins NA,Borchelt DR

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in APP (amyloid precursor protein), PSEN1 (presenilin 1) or PSEN2 (presenilin 2) are the main cause of early-onset familial forms of Alzheimer's disease (autosomal dominant AD or ADAD). These genes affect γ-secretase-dependent generation of Amyloid β (Aβ) peptides, the main constituent of amyloid plaques and...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Pimenova AA,Goate AM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Krabbe disease, a genetic demyelinating syndrome caused by deficiency of galactosyl-ceramidase and the resulting accumulation of galactosyl-sphingolipids, develop signs of a dying-back axonopathy compounded by a deficiency of large-caliber axons. Here, we show that axonal caliber in Twitcher mice, an ani...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Cantuti-Castelvetri L,Zhu H,Givogri MI,Chidavaenzi RL,Lopez-Rosas A,Bongarzone ER

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To thoroughly understand the function and regulation of neurotransmitter systems in the brain, as well as the underlying disease mechanisms, it is important to comprehensively analyze the expression patterns of genes participating in such systems. Using functional annotated cDNA clones (FANTOM), we examined the gene e...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Ichikawa M,Okamura-Oho Y,Okunishi R,Kanamori M,Suzuki H,Ritani A,Nitta H,Eguchi N,Urade Y,Hayashizaki Y

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive degenerative disease caused either by an intronic GAA triplet repeat expansion that suppresses the expression of the frataxin gene on chromosome 9q13, or, rarely, by point mutations in the frataxin gene. We investigated the expression of the mouse frataxin homologue d...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Jiralerspong S,Liu Y,Montermini L,Stifani S,Pandolfo M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noradrenergic nucleus Locus Coeruleus (LC) densely innervates limbic structures. In rats, the damage to LC by the neurotoxin DSP-4, converts episodic limbic seizures induced by bicuculline infusion in the anterior piriform cortex (APC) into self-sustaining status epilepticus (SE). SE induced by this approach is si...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Giorgi FS,Blandini F,Cantafora E,Biagioni F,Armentero MT,Pasquali L,Orzi F,Murri L,Paparelli A,Fornai F

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus is often injured in neonatal stroke. We have investigated the effect of erythropoietin (EPO) on oxygen-glucose deprived hippocampal slices and hypoxic progenitor cells. EPO improved survival of the organotypic hippocampal slices with significantly less cell death in the dentate gyrus and an increased n...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Osredkar D,Sall JW,Bickler PE,Ferriero DM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that the uncoupling between local cerebral glucose utilization (LCGU) and local cerebral blood flow (LCBF), i.e. decrease in LCBF rates with high LCGU, is frequently associated with seizure-induced neuronal damage. This study was performed to assess if the neuroprotective effect of the adenosinergic A...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Silva IR,Nehlig A,Rosim FE,Vignoli T,Persike DS,Ferrandon A,Sinigaglia-Coimbra R,Fernandes MJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) are neurodegenerative diseases characterized neuropathologically by alpha-synuclein accumulation in brain cells. This accumulation is hypothesized to contribute to constitutive neuroinflammation, and to participate in the neurodegeneration. Cytokines, which ar...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Rydbirk R,Elfving B,Andersen MD,Langbøl MA,Folke J,Winge K,Pakkenberg B,Brudek T,Aznar S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an in vitro translation assay to screen a human brain cDNA library, we isolated the microtubule-associated protein Tau and determined it to be a caspase-3 substrate whose C-terminal cleavage occurred during neuronal apoptosis. DeltaTau, the 50-kDa cleavage product, was detected by Western blot in apoptotic corti...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Chung CW,Song YH,Kim IK,Yoon WJ,Ryu BR,Jo DG,Woo HN,Kwon YK,Kim HH,Gwag BJ,Mook-Jung IH,Jung YK

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of status epilepticus-induced neuronal death in the immature brain is not fully understood. In the present study, we examined the contribution of caspases in our lithium-pilocarpine model of status epilepticus in 14 days old rat pups. In CA1, upregulation of caspase-8, but not caspase-9, preceded caspase...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Lopez-Meraz ML,Wasterlain CG,Rocha LL,Allen S,Niquet J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of the gut microbiota influencing neurodegenerative diseases has been reported for several neural diseases. However, there is little insight regarding the relationship between the gut microbiota and prion disease. Here, using fecal samples of 12 prion-infected mice and 25 healthy controls, we analyzed the str...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Yang D,Zhao D,Shah SZA,Wu W,Lai M,Zhang X,Li J,Guan Z,Zhao H,Li W,Gao H,Zhou X,Yang L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dravet syndrome is a severe infantile-onset epileptic encephalopathy which begins with febrile seizures and is caused by heterozygous loss-of-function mutations of the voltage-gated sodium channel gene SCN1A. We designed a CRISPR-based gene therapy for Scn1a-haplodeficient mice using multiple guide RNAs (gRNAs) in the...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Yamagata T,Raveau M,Kobayashi K,Miyamoto H,Tatsukawa T,Ogiwara I,Itohara S,Hensch TK,Yamakawa K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental stress is among the most important contributors to increased susceptibility to develop psychiatric disorders, including anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. While even acute stress alters gene expression, the molecular mechanisms underlying these changes remain largely unknown. 5-hydroxymethylcyto...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Li S,Papale LA,Zhang Q,Madrid A,Chen L,Chopra P,Keleş S,Jin P,Alisch RS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a lethal, neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of the polyglutamine repeat in the Huntingtin gene (HTT), leading to mutant protein misfolding, aggregation, and neuronal death. Feeding a Drosophila HD model cystamine, or expressing a transgene encoding the anti-htt intracellular a...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Bortvedt SF,McLear JA,Messer A,Ahern-Rindell AJ,Wolfgang WJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by a progressive loss of large motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Amyloid precursor protein (APP), the transmembrane precursor of beta-amyloid (A beta), accumulates in the anterior horn motor neurons of ALS patients with mild lesions. APP undergoes an alter...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Calingasan NY,Chen J,Kiaei M,Beal MF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autophagy-lysosomal degradation pathway plays a role in the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Clinical and genetic studies indicate that mutations of beta-glucocerebrosidase represent genetic risk factors for synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DL...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Parnetti L,Balducci C,Pierguidi L,De Carlo C,Peducci M,D'Amore C,Padiglioni C,Mastrocola S,Persichetti E,Paciotti S,Bellomo G,Tambasco N,Rossi A,Beccari T,Calabresi P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) genotypes and protein (BuChE) activity, especially in combination with Apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4), have been investigated as risk factors for developing Alzheimer disease (AD) and may be associated with the rate of progression of cognitive decline. Despite similar pathologic (e.g. amyloid d...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Maetzler W,Keller S,Michelis J,Koehler N,Stransky E,Becker C,Schulte C,Melms A,Gasser T,Berg D

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermittent hypoxia (IH) during sleep induces temporally defined increases in apoptosis within vulnerable brain regions such as the hippocampal CA1 region in rats. Protein kinase B (AKT) has emerged as major signal transduction protein underlying inhibition of apoptosis and consequent increases in cell survival. Spra...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Goldbart A,Cheng ZJ,Brittian KR,Gozal D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 (SCA1) is an autosomal dominant late onset neurodegenerative disease caused by an expanded polyglutamine tract in ataxin-1. Here, we compared the protective effects of overexpressing ataxin-1-like using recombinant AAVs, or reducing expression of mutant ataxin-1 using virally delivered RN...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Keiser MS,Geoghegan JC,Boudreau RL,Lennox KA,Davidson BL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by loss of dopaminergic neurons. Although many reports have suggested that genetic factors are implicated in the pathogenesis of PD, molecular mechanisms underlying selective dopaminergic neuronal degeneration remain unknown. DJ-1 is a causative gene for ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Usami Y,Hatano T,Imai S,Kubo S,Sato S,Saiki S,Fujioka Y,Ohba Y,Sato F,Funayama M,Eguchi H,Shiba K,Ariga H,Shen J,Hattori N

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamatergic dysfunction is strongly implicated in schizophrenia and mood disorders. GluA1 knockout (KO) mice display schizophrenia- and depression-related abnormalities. Here, we asked whether GluA1 KO show mania-related abnormalities. KO were tested for behavior in approach/avoid conflict tests, responses to repeat...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Fitzgerald PJ,Barkus C,Feyder M,Wiedholz LM,Chen YC,Karlsson RM,Machado-Vieira R,Graybeal C,Sharp T,Zarate C,Harvey-White J,Du J,Sprengel R,Gass P,Bannerman D,Holmes A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor neuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a form of apoptosis, but the mechanisms for this neuronal cell death are not known. We evaluated whether motor neuron degeneration in ALS is associated with changes in the levels and function of the apoptosis regulating protein p53. The protein levels...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Martin LJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive expression of C-C chemokine receptor (CCR) 5 has been detected in astrocytes, microglia and neurons, but its physiological roles in the central nervous system are obscure. The bidirectional interactions between neuron and glial cells through CCR5 and its ligands were thought to be crucial for maintaining ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Choi DY,Lee MK,Hong JT

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a major risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). A variety of metabolic changes related to T2D (e.g. hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, and elevated branched-chain amino acids) have been proposed as mechanistic links, but the basis for this association remains unknown. Retromer-depen...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Morabito MV,Berman DE,Schneider RT,Zhang Y,Leibel RL,Small SA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing in vivo functional and structural neuroimaging assays in Dyt1 ΔGAG heterozygous knock-in (Dyt1 KI) mice provide insight into the pathophysiology underlying DYT1 dystonia. In the current study, we examined in vivo functional connectivity of large-scale cortical and subcortical networks in Dyt1 KI mice and wi...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： DeSimone JC,Febo M,Shukla P,Ofori E,Colon-Perez LM,Li Y,Vaillancourt DE

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As researchers across the globe have focused their attention on understanding SARS-CoV-2, the picture that is emerging is that of a virus that has serious effects on the vasculature in multiple organ systems including the cerebral vasculature. Observed effects on the central nervous system include neurological symptom...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Buzhdygan TP,DeOre BJ,Baldwin-Leclair A,Bullock TA,McGary HM,Khan JA,Razmpour R,Hale JF,Galie PA,Potula R,Andrews AM,Ramirez SH

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00