Beyond the hippocampus and the SVZ: adult neurogenesis throughout the brain

MP Jurkowski, L Bettio, E K. Woo, A Patten… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Convincing evidence has repeatedly shown that new neurons are produced in the
mammalian brain into adulthood. Adult neurogenesis has been best described in the …

BDNF and synaptic plasticity, cognitive function, and dysfunction

B Lu, G Nagappan, Y Lu - Neurotrophic factors, 2014 - Springer
Among all neurotrophins, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) stands out for its high
level of expression in the brain and its potent effects on synapses. It is now widely accepted …

[HTML][HTML] Role of BDNF epigenetics in activity-dependent neuronal plasticity

NN Karpova - Neuropharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a key mediator of the activity-dependent
processes in the brain that have a major impact on neuronal development and plasticity …

Huntingtin protein interactions altered by polyglutamine expansion as determined by quantitative proteomic analysis

T Ratovitski, E Chighladze, N Arbez, T Boronina… - Cell Cycle, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expansion of a
polyglutamine repeat within the HD gene product, huntingtin. Huntingtin, a large (347 kDa) …

Proteomic analysis of wild-type and mutant huntingtin-associated proteins in mouse brains identifies unique interactions and involvement in protein synthesis

BP Culver, JN Savas, SK Park, JH Choi, S Zheng… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - jbc.org
Huntington disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat amplification
in the gene huntingtin (HTT) that is reflected by a polyglutamine expansion in the Htt protein …

Tremendous fidelity of vitamin D3 in age-related neurological disorders

M Skv, SM Abraham, O Eshwari, K Golla… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Vitamin D3 (VD) is a secosteroid hormone and shows a pleiotropic effect in brain-related
disorders where it regulates redox imbalance, inflammation, apoptosis, energy production …

The role of CPEB family proteins in the nervous system function in the norm and pathology

E Kozlov, YV Shidlovskii, R Gilmutdinov, P Schedl… - Cell & Bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Posttranscriptional gene regulation includes mRNA transport, localization, translation, and
regulation of mRNA stability. CPEB (c ytoplasmic p olyadenylation e lement b inding) family …

Huntingtin is an RNA binding protein and participates in NEAT1-mediated paraspeckles

M Yadav, RJ Harding, T Li, X Xu, T Gall-Duncan… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Huntingtin protein, mutated in Huntington's disease, is implicated in nucleic acid–mediated
processes, yet the evidence for direct huntingtin–nucleic acid interaction is limited. Here, we …

The effects of huntingtin-lowering: what do we know so far?

WF Kaemmerer, RC Grondin - Degenerative neurological and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Therapies targeting mutant huntingtin DNA, mRNA, and protein have a chance at becoming
the first disease-modifying treatments for Huntington's disease, a fatal inherited …

Beyond good and evil: a putative continuum-sorting hypothesis for the functional role of proBDNF/BDNF-propeptide/mBDNF in antidepressant treatment

CRAF Diniz, PC Casarotto, L Resstel… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Depression and posttraumatic stress disorder are assumed to be maladaptive responses to
stress and antidepressants are thought to counteract such responses by increasing BDNF …