Microglia in neurodegenerative diseases: mechanism and potential therapeutic targets

C Gao, J Jiang, Y Tan, S Chen - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia activation is observed in various neurodegenerative diseases. Recent advances in
single-cell technologies have revealed that these reactive microglia were with high spatial …

Interleukin-18 cytokine in immunity, inflammation, and autoimmunity: Biological role in induction, regulation, and treatment

SA Ihim, SD Abubakar, Z Zian, T Sasaki… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine involved in host defense against
infections and regulates the innate and acquired immune response. IL-18 is produced by …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: translating genetic discoveries into therapies

F Akçimen, ER Lopez, JE Landers, A Nath… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in sequencing technologies and collaborative efforts have led to
substantial progress in identifying the genetic causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

[HTML][HTML] Massively parallel screen uncovers many rare 3′ UTR variants regulating mRNA abundance of cancer driver genes

T Fu, K Amoah, TW Chan, JH Bahn, JH Lee… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the function of rare non-coding variants represents a significant challenge.
Using MapUTR, a screening method, we studied the function of rare 3′ UTR variants …

Update on genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

D Brenner, A Freischmidt - Current Opinion in Neurology, 2022 - journals.lww.com
The genetic and molecular basis of ALS is increasingly examined on single-cell resolution.
In the past 2 years, the understanding of the downstream mechanisms of several ALS genes …

Opinion: more mouse models and more translation needed for ALS

EMC Fisher, L Greensmith, A Malaspina… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a complex disorder most of which is 'sporadic'of unknown
origin but approximately 10% is familial, arising from single mutations in any of more than 30 …

Induced pluripotent stem cells and their applications in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

H Du, Z Huo, Y Chen, Z Zhao, F Meng, X Wang, S Liu… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that results
in the loss of motor function in the central nervous system (CNS) and ultimately death. The …

Emerging trends in the field of inflammation and proteinopathy in ALS/FTD spectrum disorder

F De Marchi, T Franjkic, P Schito, T Russo, J Nimac… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Proteinopathy and neuroinflammation are two main hallmarks of neurodegenerative
diseases. They also represent rare common events in an exceptionally broad landscape of …

Unsupervised machine learning identifies distinct ALS molecular subtypes in post-mortem motor cortex and blood expression data

H Marriott, R Kabiljo, GP Hunt, AA Khleifat… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) displays considerable clinical and genetic
heterogeneity. Machine learning approaches have previously been utilised for patient …

Cause or consequence? The role of IL-1 family cytokines and receptors in neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases

D Boraschi, P Italiani, P Migliorini, P Bossù - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cytokines and receptors of the IL-1 family are key mediators in innate immune and
inflammatory reactions in physiological defensive conditions, but are also significantly …