Functional roles of reactive astrocytes in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

R Patani, GE Hardingham, SA Liddelow - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in uncovering the mechanisms that underlie neuroinflammation and
neurodegenerative disease, therapies that prevent neuronal loss remain elusive. Targeting …

[HTML][HTML] Endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein response in neurodegenerative diseases

R Ghemrawi, M Khair - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an important organelle involved in protein quality control
and cellular homeostasis. The accumulation of unfolded proteins leads to an ER stress …

ER stress and the unfolded protein response in neurodegeneration

C Hetz, S Saxena - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2017 - nature.com
The clinical manifestation of neurodegenerative diseases is initiated by the selective
alteration in the functionality of distinct neuronal populations. The pathology of many …

Autophagy and ALS: mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications

JP Chua, H De Calbiac, E Kabashi, SJ Barmada - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Mechanisms of protein homeostasis are crucial for overseeing the clearance of misfolded
and toxic proteins over the lifetime of an organism, thereby ensuring the health of neurons …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional human iPSC-derived artificial skeletal muscles model muscular dystrophies and enable multilineage tissue engineering

SM Maffioletti, S Sarcar, ABH Henderson, I Mannhardt… - Cell Reports, 2018 - cell.com
Generating human skeletal muscle models is instrumental for investigating muscle
pathology and therapy. Here, we report the generation of three-dimensional (3D) artificial …

2D versus 3D human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cultures for neurodegenerative disease modelling

EGZ Centeno, H Cimarosti, A Bithell - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD),
Huntington's disease (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), affect millions of people …

Selective suppression of oligodendrocyte-derived amyloid beta rescues neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

RM Rajani, R Ellingford, M Hellmuth, SS Harris… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Reduction of amyloid beta (Aβ) has been shown to be effective in treating Alzheimer's
disease (AD), but the underlying assumption that neurons are the main source of pathogenic …

Motor neuron susceptibility in ALS/FTD

AMG Ragagnin, S Shadfar, M Vidal… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the
death of both upper and lower motor neurons (MNs) in the brain, brainstem and spinal cord …

Non-cell-autonomous pathogenic mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

ACM Van Harten, H Phatnani, S Przedborski - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common adult-onset paralytic disorder,
characterized mainly by a loss of motor neurons (MNs) in the CNS. Over the past decades …

Integrating single-cell and spatially resolved transcriptomic strategies to survey the astrocyte response to stroke in male mice

EY Scott, N Safarian, DL Casasbuenas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Astrocytes, a type of glial cell in the central nervous system (CNS), adopt diverse states in
response to injury that are influenced by their location relative to the insult. Here, we …